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 of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 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, "Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data", 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 of Egyptology, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago -
Silvia Nigrelli
The Semantics of Derived Verbs: A New Look at Old Egyptian Morphology - EgyptologyYear Awarded 2020Currently Independent Researcher -
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, Department 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, Department of Historical Studies, 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 Research Professor (Tenure Track), Department for the History of Science and Scientific Archaeology at the University of Science and Technology of China -
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 of History, Department of History, 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 of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, State University of New York - 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 Associate Teaching Professor, History Department, 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]