Dissertation Proposals

Dissertation Proposals Approved by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,  University of Chicago

Solange Bumbaugh
November 2009: Meroitic Worship of Isis as Seen through the Graffiti of the Dodecaschoenus

Jill Ashley Fine
August 1997: The Socioeconomic Organization of the Metalworkers During the Late Bronze Period at Ugarit

Elizabeth S. Friedman
July 1995: Technological Style in Early Bronze Age Anatolia

Nicole B. Hansen
May 1999: Continuity and Change of Reproductive Beliefs and Practices in Egypt from Ancient to Modern Times

Alexandra A. O'Brien
July 1996: Egyptian Women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: The Economic and Legal Activities of Women in Demotic Texts

Hratch Papazian
October 1999: The "Per Shena": From Palace Estate to Sacred Storehouse. The Structure and Evolution of an Ancient Egyptian Economic Institution

Tate Paulette
Spring 2007: Magazines, Models, and Artificial Societies: The Archaeology of Grain Storage in Third-Millennium Northern Mesopotamia

Clemens Reichel
June 1996: Political Change and Cultural Continuity in Eshnunna from the Ur III to the Old Babylonian Period

Eric Reymond
May 1997: A Structural Analysis of Ben Sira 40:11 - 44:15

Foy D. Scalf
October 2007: Passports to Eternity: Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts and the Final Phase of Egyptian Funerary Literature in Roman Egypt

Robert R. Tate
December 2009: The Seljuk Caravanserais of Anatolia: A GIScience and Landscape Archaeology Study