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Medieval Silk Road metropolis unearthed in Uzbek mountains

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AHMA and the Mario Del Chiaro Center for the Study of Ancient Italy are pleased to announce a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1974 publication of Erich Gruen's landmark study, The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (University of California Press)....Read more about Last Generation of the Roman Republic at 50 Years

AHMA alumnus Evan Vance (2022) has accepted a tenure-track position in Greek History in the Department of Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal. Evan has spent the last two years on a post-doctoral fellowship from the...Read more about Placement News

AHMA student Abigail Hoskins has accepted a position as Visiting Research Scholar at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) for the academic year 2024/25. Abigail will file her dissertation, a microhistorical study of the...Read more about Placement news: Abigail Hoskins heading to ISAW

Leah Packard-Grams, a current AHMA student, has been studying a set of papyri in the Center for Tebtunis Papyri written by a single scribe, to understand the materialities of his scribal practice, including the ink and pen that he used. Her work, and that of AGRS alum Will Sieving, was...Read more about Leah Packard-Grams' work on Tebtunis Papyri highlighted by Berkeley News

ROBERT C. KNAPP

12 February 1946-17 September 2023

On 17 September 2023, Robert Knapp, Professor Emeritus of Classics and of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, died at his home in Oakland after a recent diagnosis...Read more about In memoriam: Robert C. Knapp

Talia Prussin (AHMA PhD 2023) has accepted a two-year position as Assistant Professor of Greek History and Language in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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Christian Hall has received the 2023 Joan B. Gruen Essay Prize for her MA thesis, Scales of Identity: Funerary Objects and the Creation of Mycenaean Cultural Identity at Prosymna.

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Jesse Obert (AHMA PhD 2023) has accepted a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Eric Driscoll (AHMA PhD 2018) will take up a new position as Lecturer in Ancient and...Read more about Placement News

Professor Kim Shelton (DAGRS and AHMA) was elected to a three-year term as Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs of the Archaeological Institute of America. This position on the Governing Board of...Read more about Shelton Elected VP for Research and Academic Affairs, AIA

Andrew F. Stewart passed away on January 13, 2023, after a long and challenging but determined struggle with respiratory disease. His departure leaves a very large gap not only in his departments and the university but in the larger fields of Greek art and archaeology. He is widely acknowledged...Read more about Remembering Andrew Stewart

Faculty and graduate students from AHMA and the Dept of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (DAGRS) will give brief presentations on our grad programs and answer questions from prospective applicants.

Monday, Oct 17, 2-3pm

Online

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Prof. Carlos Noreña will present two lectures and host a seminar entitled "Ecology and Order in the Roman and Han Empires" at the 2022 J. H. Gray Lectures from May 17th to May 19th at Cambridge Unviersity. The event will also be available online. Please see the attached poster for more...Read more about Carlos Noreña Presents the Gray Lectures at Cambridge

AHMA is thrilled to announce that two very generous gifts have combined to create the Ron Stroud Endowment in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, in honor of our late colleague Professor Ron Stroud, one of the...Read more about Donors Create an Endowment in Honor of the Late Professor Ron Stroud

Ronald Sidney Stroud (July 8, 1933 – October 7, 2021) succumbed after a lengthy hospitalization that followed a fall in his Berkeley home. He leaves a very large gap for his admiring colleagues, a host of former students, and an extraordinary number of friends across the world who have expressed...Read more about Ronald Stroud (1933-2021): In Memoriam

During 2021-2022, AHMA faculty members Susanna Elm (History/AGRS), Emily Mackil (History) and Duncan MacRae (AGRS) are leading a public course titled Voting the Divine: Collective Decision-Making and Religious Authority between Polytheism and Monotheism. It is a group of programs...Read more about Luce Foundation Grant for "Voting the Divine"

Stephen Miller, Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley and a longtime faculty member of AHMA, passed away in Greece on August 11, 2021.

Miller was named the Director of Excavations at the panhellenic sanctuary site of Nemea in 1971, a position he held...Read more about Stephen Miller (1942-2021): In Memoriam

Susanna Elm has been elected a Corresonding Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her rich contributions to the study of early Christianity, the transformation of the Roman empire,...Read more about Susanna Elm elected to British Academy

Associate Professor Diliana Angelova (History of Art, History) has received two awards to develop her current book-length project, titled The Reign of Eros: Classicism, Secularism, and...Read more about Diliana Angelova wins grants to support research on the erotic imaginary in Byzantine art

Diliana Angelova, Associate Professor in the Departments of the History of Art and of History, taught an undergraduate class during the spring 2021 semester, which resulted in (among other things) the curation of an online exhibit of ancient Mediterranean objects from the...Read more about Diliana Angelova's class curates an online exhibit at the Hearst Museum

Darcy Tuttle, completing her second year in the AHMA program, has been awarded the Joan B. Gruen Essay Prize for 2021. In a paper entitled, “'Dutifully They Were Crucified': The Moral and Legal Redemption of the Sabine Women in Augustine's City of God,"...Read more about Darcy Tuttle wins Gruen Prize

Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded a...Read more about Rita Lucarelli wins NEH summer stipend

Kim Shelton, Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology, has received the award for...Read more about Kim Shelton wins Extraordinary Teaching Award

Chris Hallett (History of Art, Classics, AHMA) is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University in Denmark for the academic year 2020/21. In spring 2021, he is delivering a series of six lectures on the topic, New Research on the Materials of Ancient...Read more about Hallett delivers lecture series at Aarhus University, Denmark

Professor Kim Shelton (Classics, AHMA) participated in a panel of distinguished female archaeologists to discuss the history, trials, and triumphs of women working in Greek archaeology. The event was organized by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens to celebrate International Women...Read more about Kim Shelton on Women in Greek Archaeology

Lisa Maher (Anthropology, AHMA) with her colleague Danielle MacDonald (University of Tulsa) direct the excavations at Kharaneh IV in Jordan, where in 2016 they discovered the charred skeleton of a woman on the floor of a hut that had been lit on fire for the cremation of the body around 17,000...Read more about Maher's discovery of a cremation burial at Kharaneh IV in Jordan makes news

Emily Mackil and Nikolaos Papazarkadas have published a volume of essays on Greek Epigraphy and Religion, dedicated to the memory of AHMA alumna Sara B. Aleshire (PhD 1986), whose generous bequest to the university endowed the Sara B....Read more about Mackil and Papazarkadas publish papers on Greek Epigraphy and Religion

Todd Hickey (Classics, AHMA, Bancroft Library) and James Keenan have published The Property of a Lady (P.Christodote). Pap.Flor. XLVIII (Florence, 2020). The volume includes a re-edition by Keenan of PSI I 76, copies of an affidavit concerning a large debt,...Read more about Hickey and Keenan publish The Property of a Lady

Professor Chris Hallett (History of Art, Classics, AHMA) gave a lecture, "Mummies with Painted Portraits from Roman Egypt and Personal Commemoration at the Tomb" at the Institute of Fine Arts on Dec. 3, 2020.

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Erich Gruen, Wood Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, has published Ethnicity in the Ancient World: Did it Matter...Read more about Erich Gruen publishes Ethnicity in the Ancient World

Susanna Elm has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Loeb Foundation to support her research during the year 2020/21, when she will take a sabbatical leave. Elm's project, Augustine the Economist, uses two letters by bishop Augustine of Hippo...Read more about Elm wins Loeb & ACLS Fellowships

Chris Hallett (History of Art, Classics, AHMA) has published a collection of essays on Roman sarcophagi that originated in a conference held at Berkeley in September 2009.

Chris Hallett, ed., Flesheaters: An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi. University of California at...Read more about Hallett publishes Flesheaters

Carlos Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas have published a collection of papers delivered at the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, held at UC Berkeley in January 2016.

Carlos Noreña and...Read more about Noreña and Papazarkadas publish papers on Greek and Latin Epigraphy