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Rebecca Hasselbach on semitics and language typology
On November 7, 2007, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Rebecca Hasselbach gave a lecture on semitics and language typology. Hasselbach is Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute and in...
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Martha Roth on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the...
View ArticleOriental Institute team unearths Iron Age stele
The University of Chicago Chronicle reports that an Oriental Instutite team working in southwest Turkey has discovered a chisled stone slab that is the first written evidence in the region that people...
View ArticleProf. Pardee’s work on an eighth-century stele in the New York Times
The New York Times has made mention of the fact that archaeologists at the Oriental Institute discovered an inscribed stone monument at the Syrian border that refers to the concept of the “soul.” The...
View ArticleGibson, Moeller, and Stolper receive National Endowment for the Humanities...
The University of Chicago Chronicle reports that three Humanities Division faculty members have been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities. McGuire Gibson, Professor in the...
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Lauinger, PhD 2007, named first Donnelley research fellow
Jacob Lauinger Jacob Lauinger, a 2007 PhD graduate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was honored by becoming the first Donnelley Research Fellow. The three-year post-doctoral fellowship...
View ArticleHumanities Day 2010 features Laing Prize Winner Martha Feldman as Keynote...
Martha Feldman, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of Music, was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Gordon J. Laing Prize for her 2007 book Opera and...
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New Oriental Institute Exhibit Curated by Graduate Student
Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations studying Egyptology, curated “Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt,” which is on display at the Oriental...
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