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Molly Harris and Geoffrey Ludvik were recognized for their exceptional teaching. Read all the details!  

PhD student Preston Atwood has earned $600 for travel expenses to the 2018 Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The award is courtesy of the Student Research …

Read Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror by Nandini Pandey published by the online journal Eidolon.

Join the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies as we host Classics Day on Friday, May 4 from noon to 5pm.  This free event will feature panel discussions and a lecture by Sarah …

The Institute for Research in the Humanities has awarded Jeff Beneker a Resident Faculty Fellowship for academic year 2018-2019.  Beneker will be on leave from teaching for one semester while working on his book project, …

M.A. Alumna Amanda Morrow has published “I Hate My Spouse: The Performative Act of Divorce in Elephantine Aramaic” in the most recent issue of the Journal of Northwese Semitic Languages. Read the full article. Congratulations!

Professor Laura K. McClure has been appointed President of the Classcial Association of the Middle West and South. She continues a Wisconsin tradition, following in the footsteps of past presidents Water “Ray” Agard (1944-45) and …

“Reading and Writing in the Dark at Khirbet el-Qom: The Literacies of Ancient Subterranean Judah,” by Alice Mandell and Jeremy Smoak is now available in the latest edition of Near Eastern Archaeology. How did ancient …

According to Alice Mandell, learning ancient languages gives a person, “… a sense that you are being teleported into the past. You can access stories about the gods as well as the personal letters, prayers, hopes …

Alice Mandell will be participating in The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity, a conference hosted by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York Unversity. Mandell is presenting her work, “The …