Department of Egyptology and Assyriology
PhD Degrees Awarded
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Christopher Cox
Mirroring the Gods: Parallel Scenes in Kushite Early Art - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2025Currently Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA -
Sara Mohr
Secrecy, Protection, and Foundations of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia - AssyriologyYear Awarded 2022Currently Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences -
Victoria Almansa Villatoro
Between Social Identity and Royal Ideology: an Analysis of Communication and Persuasion in Old Kingdom Egyptian Letters and Decrees - EgyptologyYear Award 2022Currently Assistant Professor, Yale University -
Zachary Rubin
The Scribal God Nabû in Ancient Assyrian Religion and Ideology - AssyriologyYear Awarded 2021Currently Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -
Christian Casey
Setne & Siosire: An Exploration of the Demotic ScriptYear Awarded 2020Currently Postdoctoral Researcher, The Zodiac Research Project, The Freie Universität Berlin -
Margaret Geoga
Receptions of a Middle Egyptian Poem: A Textual and Material Study of "the Teaching of Amenemhat" in the New Kingdom - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2020Currently Assistant Professor, University of Chicago -
Silvia Nigrelli
The Semantics of Derived Verbs: A New Look at Old Egyptian Morphology - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2020 -
Federico Zangani
The Origin of the Amarna International System: Egyptian Imperialism in the Norther Levant and Geopolitical Dynamics in the late Bronze Age - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2020Currently Renfrew Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge -
Jessica Tomkins
Provincial Mastabas and the Expression of Elite Power: A Study of Two Upper Egyptian Provinces in the Old Kingdom - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2019Currently Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College -
Emily Drennan
The Rise of 'Private' Rule in Upper Egypt: The Transition of the Theban Government from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Dynasty - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2019Currently PACE Organization of Rhode Island -
Zackary Wainer
The Series if the Moon at its Appearance and Mesopotamian Scholarship 1st M - AssyriologyYear Awarded 2016Currently Director of Special Initiatives, Maimonides Fund -
M. Willis Monroe
Advice from the Stars: The Micro-zodiac in Seleucid Babylonia - AssyriologyYear Awarded 2016Currently Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick -
Emily Russo MacIntosh
Tracking Religious Thought Through Image and Text - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2016Currently Development Writer at Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation -
Amanda Zahedi (née Davis)
Egyptian and Minoan Relations during the Eighteenth Dynasty/Late Bronze Age - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2016Currently Medford Public Schools -
Yuzhen Guan
The Treatment of Eclipses in Early Chinese Astral Sciences - History of the Exact Sciences in AntiquityYear Awarded 2015Currently Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University -
Kathryn Howley
The Royal Pyramid Tombs of Nuri: Cultural Interaction between Nubia and Egypt in the Middle Napatan Period - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2015Currently Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University -
Julia Troche
Origins of Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2015Currently Associate Professor, Missouri State University -
Sung Hwan Yoo
Patterns of Ancient Egyptian Child Deities - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2012Currently Senior Researcher at the Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University -
In Memoriam: Ramadan Badry Hussein
The Saite Pyramid Texts Copies in the Memphite and Heliopolitan Shaft-Tombs: A Study of Their Selection and Layout - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2009Formerly Project Director, 26th Dynasty tombs at Saqqara -
Toke L. Knudsen
The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: A critical edition of select chapters with English translation and commentary – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 2008Currently Professor, State University of Oneonta -
Emily O'Dell
Excavating the Emotional Landscape of Ancient Egyptian Literature – EgyptologyYear Awarded 2008Currently Associate Professor at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in China -
Kelly-Anne Diamond
Ancient Egyptian funerary ritual: the term ḥ3i – EgyptologyYear Awarded 2007Currently Assistant Teaching Professor of History and Faculty Advisor, Villanova University -
Jessica Lévai
Aspects of the goddess Nephthys, especially during the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt – EgyptologyYear Awarded 2007Job Placement Visiting Lecturer, Bridgewater State University -
Micah Ross
Horoscopic ostraca from Medinet Madi – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 2006Currently Professor, Sacred Heart Apostolic School -
Kwaw (formerly Andreas Wood) Imana
A grammatical analysis of the late Demotic take Setne II (Pappyrus BM EA 10822) – EgyptologyYear Awarded 2006Currently Founder, Wilson Baker Academy for Excellence and Achievement -
Clemency Williams (née Montelle)
Eclipse theory in the ancient world – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 2005Currently Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand -
Mariam Ayad
The funerary texts of Amenirdis I: Analysis of their layout and purpose – EgyptologyYear Awarded 2003Currently Associate Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo, Egypt -
Setsuro Ikeyama
The Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta Chapter 21 with the Commentary of Pṛthūdakasvāmin – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 2002Currently Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan -
Robert Lopilato
The Apotelesmatika of Manetho – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1998 -
Kim Leslie Plofker
Mathematical Approximation By Transformation of Sine Functions in Medieval Sanskrit Astronomical Texts – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1995Currently Associate Professor of Mathematics, Union College -
Takanori Kusuba
Combinatorics and magic squares in India: A study of Nārāyana Pandita’s Ganitakaumudī Chapters 13–14 – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1993Currently Professor, Osaka University of Economics, Japan -
Stephen Evan Thompson
A lexicographic and iconographic analysis of anointing in ancient Egypt – EgyptologyYear Awarded 1991Currently Coral Springs, FL -
Takao Hayashi
The Bakhshālī manuscript – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1985Currently Professor of History of Science, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan -
Alexander Jones
Book 7 of Pappus’s Collection: Edition, translation, and commentary – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1985Currently Leon Levy Director, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University -
Jacques Sesiano
The Arabic text of books IV to VII of Diophantus’ Arithmētika in the translation of Ousṭā ibn Lūqā, edited with translation and commentary – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1975Job Placement Lecturer, École doctorale, Mathématiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland {Emeritus] -
Peter Christopher Solon
The Hexapterygon of Michael Crysokokkes edited, translated, and annotated – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1968 -
Bernard Raphael Goldstein
The commentary of Ibn al-Muthanna to the astronomical tables of al-Khwarizmi – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1963Job Placement University Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and of Jewish Studies, University of Pittsburgh [Emeritus] -
Richard Holton Pierce
Three demotic papyri in the Brooklyn Museum – EgyptologyYear Awarded 1963Job Placement Professor of Egyptology, Department of Greek, Latin and Egyptology, University of Bergen, Norway {Emeritus] -
William Duane Stahlman
The astronomical tables of Codex Vaticanus graecus 1291 – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1960Job Placement Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison [deceased] -
Caroline Nestmann Peck
Some decorated tombs of the first intermediate period at Naga ed-Der – EgyptologyYear Awarded 1958Job Placement Teaching Associate in Egyptology, Brown University [deceased] -
Asger Hartvig Aaboe
On Babylonian planetary theories – History of MathematicsYear Awarded 1957Job Placement Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University [deceased]