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The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies examines and builds upon what has come before. We are an interdisciplinary unit committed to furthering new and emerging methodologies, and interrogating older frameworks of inquiry. We critically engage with the study of the languages, literature, history, religion, institutions, and material culture of the lands and peoples centred around the Mediterranean and the Tigris-Euphrates river system, and the reception and representation of these culture to the modern day.
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Megan Daniel’s edited volume, Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History has just been published through SUNY Press! This publication stems from her year-long post-doctoral fellowship at SUNY Buffalo, where she organized an international conference on the topic. The volume brings together archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and geneticists to discuss the past, present, and […]

Thomas Schneider has been successful in establishing a new consortium of liberal arts institutions across the Pacific Basin, the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges (PALAC), in conversations with many senior administrators and more recently, Vice President Bryan Penprase from Soka University of America as a co-initiator. The new alliance groups together as founding members […]

The department congratulates Dr. Sara Milstein on her election to the Humanities and Social Sciences Class of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen in Germany. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen was founded in 1751 and is the oldest continuously existing institution of its kind in Germany. It brings together academics who, as stated in […]