Dr. Matt McCarty wins a Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award

Dr. Matthew McCarty has been awarded a Dean of Arts Faculty Research Awards for junior faculty, which will allow him to spend spring term 2020 on research leave finishing his monograph Empire and Child Sacrifice in Roman Africa.

Dr. Michael Griffin is awarded a UBC Killam Teaching Prize

The department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies is pleased to announce that Michael Griffin has been awarded a UBC Killam Teaching Prize, which is an annual prize to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching. A certificate will be awarded to Michael at the May Congregation and […]

Dr. Susanna Braund wins UBC Killam Research Prize

We are pleased to announce that Susanna Braund has won a UBC Killam Research Prize. This prize recognizes outstanding research and scholarly contributions. Winners were selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, business, applied science, science, and medicine. She is in the group of 5 recipients within Arts. For further […]

Thomas Schneider receives ASOR Membership Service Award

Thomas Schneider was awarded a Membership Service Award by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) at their Annual Meeting in November, in recognition of his seven years as editor of the journal Near Eastern Archaeology, during which the journal secured a place in the top quartile of archaeological and historical journals. This award recognizes […]

Dr. Susanna Braund is elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Professor Susanna Braund has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, which is the highest honor for achievement in the humanities in Australia. She has been recognized for her international leadership on imperial Latin literature and the reception of Roman antiquity. Corresponding Fellows are elected in recognition of their […]

Matthew McCarty receives prize for best article in Phoenix

Dr. Matthew McCarty has be awarded the sixth Mary White Prize for Best Article in Phoenix (2017) for his co-written article, “Connected Communities in Roman Mithraism:  Regional Webs from the Apulum Mithraeum III Project (Dacia)”, which will appear in the forthcoming issue of Phoenix. The prize is named for Mary White, who was a Classics professor at the University […]

Another new book by Dr. Keddie

Dr. Anthony Keddie is co-author with L. Michael White of a new book entitled Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt (SBL Press, 2018). Publication Notice from SBL Press Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt: The Epistle of Aristeas and Related Literature The first Greek text of the Epistle of Aristeas published in more than a century. The Greek […]

New Book by Dr. Keddie

Dr. G. Anthony Keddie has published a new book on apocalypticism in Early Roman Palestine, “Revelations of Ideology.” (Brill, 2018) About In Revelations of Ideology, G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE–70 CE). In contrast to evaluations of Jewish and […]

Thomas Schneider’s research on early alphabet discovery garners international attention

A paper recently published in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research by Dr. Thomas Schneider has received news coverage from North America to Israel, Russia, and Korea! The paper reports on what could be the earliest example of our alphabet sequence from a 3400 year-old piece of Egyptian pottery. Read more on […]

Gregg Gardner named division Chair for Association for Jewish Studies

Professor Gregg Gardner has been named Chair of the Division of “Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity” of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). In this role, he will be shepherding and overseeing all paper proposals on Jews and Judaism during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine ages for the AJS’s Annual Meeting – the largest […]