Congratulations to Kevin Fisher, winner of the 2025 prestigious G. Ernest Wright Award
The award recognizes Dr. Fisher’s book, Monumentality, Place-Making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus, as a major contribution to Eastern Mediterranean archaeology.
Congratulations to Talia Neelis: Winner of the Governor General’s Silver Medal Award in Arts
Talia graduated this spring with a B.A. Honours in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and a Minor in Art History. As the recipient of the Governor General’s Silver Medal Award in Arts, Talia achieved the highest academic standing upon graduation from her degree program.
AMNE’s Dr. Matt McCarty awarded Killam Teaching Prize
The AMNE department is thrilled to announce that Dr. Matt McCarty, Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology, has been awarded a Killam Teaching Prize.
Congratulations to Hannah Stengler on receiving the Outstanding Student Leader in the Faculty of Arts award!
The AMNE department is thrilled to congratulate Hannah Stengler on winning the highly competitive Outstanding Student Leader in the Faculty of Arts award for 2024!
AMNE’s Experiencing Antiquity project receives SCS Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities grant!
Warm congratulations are in order for AMNE’s Experiencing Antiquity project (formerly From Stone to Screen)! The project was selected as one of the projects funded by the SCS Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities grant. The grant will allow the team to rehouse the artifact collection here at AMNE, and create an accessible online platform with lesson […]
Euripides Chorus Brought to Life
The AMNE department is delighted to congratulate Dr. Hallie Marshall in Theatre & Film on her production of a brand new performance of the surviving chorus from Euripides’ Phaethon in ancient Greek. This project arose from last May’s Go Global Greece program and stands out as a vivid case of bringing the ancient world […]
Congratulations to our recent AMNE grads!
Congratulations to our newest AMNE graduates! Our undergraduate cohort included Emily Tees (BA honours), Tiffany Yee Ching Ma (BA major), and Justin Campbell Demers (BA major). Graduates from our MA programs included Caroline Barnes (CNAR), Safia Siobhan Boutaleb (CNAR), Hampton Davis Evans (ACRE), Yanxing Liu (ACRE), Jane Maze (ACRE), and Elizabeth Meshel (CNAR). And […]
2020/21 Course Delivery Online
During Winter 20/21 and Summer 2021 all courses in ARBC, CLST, CNRS, GREK, HEBR, LATN, NEST, and RELG are online. The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies will not be offering any courses on campus. This is in response to the decision made by the University and the Faculty of Arts in response […]
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODS
Including an introduction to archaeological methods and work with real ancient artifacts in UBC collections.
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