The following is a selection of graduate courses relating to the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology program that have been offered in the last decade. Past AHMA seminars are listed separately.
Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (formerly Classics)
Approaches to Classical Literature (E. Oliensis, S2016, F2019, F2021, F2023)
Archaic Greek Poetry (M. Griffith, F2017; L. Kurke S2025)
Classics Proseminar (D. Mastronarde, S2021, S2023)
Death, Burial, and the Greek World (K. Shelton, S2022)
Drama and Society (M. Telò, F2021)
Elemental Investigations (V. Wohl, F2023) [Sather Seminar]
Greek Epigraphy (N. Papazarkadas, F2016; S2021)
Greek and Latin Epigraphy (D. MacRae, F2024)
Greek Painting (K. Shelton, S2022)
Greek Philosophers (G. Ferrari & K. Hoekstra S2024)
Greek Vase Painting: Hermeneutics and Historiography (F. Lissarrague, S2016) [Sather Seminar]
Herodotus' Conversations (L. Kurke, S2023)
Latin Poetry of the Republic and Early Empire (P. Hardie, S2016) [Sather Seminar]
Lucretius (D. Sailor, S2024)
Mycenae Through the Ages: prehistory, history, and historiography (K. Shelton, F2024)
Myth and Literature (L. Kurke, F2021)
Papyrology (T. Hickey, S2016, F2020)
Plato and Aristotle (G. Ferrari, F2021)
Plato and Attic Prose (D. Sailor, F2021)
Poetics of the Book (K. McCarthy, F2017)
Polytheism in Rome (D. MacRae, F2016)
The Presocratics (S. Magrin and T. Long, F2019)
Rationality, Interests, and Choice in Greek Thought and Practice (J. Ober, F2019) [Sather Seminar]
Republican Prose (T. Murphy, F2021)
Roman Comedy (K. McCarthy, F2020)
Roman Material Culture (T. Peña, F2021)
The Roman Economy (T. Peña, F2021)
The Rural Mediterranean (G. Erny, S2024)
The Social Culture of Images in Ancient Greece and Rome (T. Hölscher, F2016)
Survey of Greek Literature (L. Kurke, F2021; N. Papazarkadas, S2022; M. Telò, F2023; M. Griffith, S2024)
Survey of Latin Literature (E. Oliensis, F2020; Macrae S2021; F2022; Sailor S2023; K. McCarthy F2024; D. MacRae S2025)
Tacitus' Annals (D. Sailor, S2014)
Vergil (K. McCarthy, F2021)
Voting the Divine: Religious Disputes and Communal Decisionmaking in the Roman Empire (S. Elm and D. MacRae, F2021)
Writing Disaster: Tragedy, Ecology, and Psychoanalysis (M. Telò, F2020)
Department of History
Archaic and Classical Greek History (N. Papazarkadas, S2022)
Augustine's City of God and Economic History (S. Elm, F2019)
Byzantine History (M. Mavroudi, F2020, F2021)
Christianity: The Beginnings (S. Elm, F2021)
Claudian (S. Elm, F2017)
Historical Method and Theory (C. Noreña, F2019, F2022)
Imperial Representation in the Later Roman Empire: Manliness, Dress, Ethnicity and the Divine (S. Elm, F2020)
Problems in Archaic Greek History (E. Mackil, S2023)
Representing the Barbarian in Late Antiquity (S. Elm, F2016)
The Roman Atlantic (C. Noreña, S2021)
The Roman Republic (C. Noreña, S2022)
Ruins of History (S. Esmeir and S.-L. Hoffmann, F2020)
Stasis, Exile, and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece (E. Mackil, S2021)
Voting the Divine: Religious Disputes and Communal Decisionmaking in the Roman Empire (S. Elm and D. MacRae, F2021)
Writing History in Greek, 10th-12th Centuries (M. Mavroudi, F2023)
Department of History of Art
Breaking Images: Iconoclasms Past and Present (D. Angelova, F2021)
Decolonizing Ancient Mediterranean Art (L. Pieraccini, S2022)
Demystifying Funerary Landscapes, Identities and Receptions in Etruria and Egypt (R. Lucarellia and L. Pieraccini, S2023) [AHMA Seminar]
Etruscan Pasts, Present, and Futures: An Art of Many Faces (L. Pieraccini, F2021)
Sensations: Cultural Histories of the Senses in the Ancient Mediterranean World (D. Angelova & B. Porter, S2022)
Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Akkadian: Advanced (F. Rochberg, F2017; L. Pearce S2023)
Akkadian: Empires and Exiles of First Millenium BCE Mesopotamia (L. Pearce, F2021)
Akkadian: Rapid Reading and Research (L. Pearce, F2017)
Akkadian: Selected Readings (L. Pearce, S2022; S2024)
Ancient Ceramics of Egypt and the Levant (C. Redmount, S2022
The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 1000-330 BCE (Porter, F2021)
Art and Archaeology of Middle Eastern Christianity (Brelaud, F2021)
The Assyrians and Other Religious Groups in the Middle East (S. Brelaud, S2022)
Babylonian Religion: Myths and Songs from Ancient Mesopotamia (N. Veldhuis, S2022)
Daily Life in the Ancient World (C. Redmount, F2020)
Digital Humanities and Egyptology (R. Lucarelli, F2019)
Disease, Health, and Pandemics in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Middle East, and the Classical World (C. Redmount, F2021)
Egyptian: Demotic Texts (B. Richter, S2021)
Egyptian: Hieratic (R. Lucarelli, F2021; F2024)
Egyptian: Hieroglyphics (B. Richter, S2022; S2024)
Egyptian: Late Egyptian (R. Lucarelli, S2022)
Egyptian: Middle Egyptian Texts (R. Lucarelli, F2017; F2019; S2021)
Egyptology, Archaeology, and Theory (Redmount, S2021)
Explorers, Archaeologists, and Tourists in the Middle East (B. Porter, S2022)
Gilgamesh: King, Hero, and God (Veldhuis, F2021)
Hebrew: Advanced Late Antique Hebrew Texts (D. Boyarin, S2023; F2023)
Hebrew: Talmud (Boyarin F2019)
Iranian Languages: Middle Persian (Benkato, S2021; F2024)
Iranian Philology (A. Benkato, S2022)
Magic, Religion, and Science: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds (R. Lucarelli & M. Mavroudi, S2022)
Middle Eastern Archaeology (B. Porter, S2024)
Orientalism and Its Critique (Benkato, F2021)
Sasanian Rock Reliefs and the Persian Empire (M. Compareti, S2016)
Silk Road Art and Archaeology (S. Mehendale, S2022)
Sociolinguistics of the Middle East (Benkato, F2021)
Sumerian: Elementary (N. Veldhuis, S2022)
Using Cuneiform Texts in Research (F. Rochberg, F2020)
The Vibrancy of Animals, Plants, and Objects in the Ancient Middle East (B. Porter, S2023)
Women in Ancient Egypt (C. Redmount, S2013, F2021)
Department of Anthropology
Advanced Topics in Bioarchaeology (S. Agarwal, F2023)
Anarchy, Inequality, and Freedom (R. Joyce, F2023)
Archaeological Research Strategies (R. Joyce, F2020; Hastorf and White, S2021; Laluk and White, F2023; N. Laluk, F2024; L. Maher S2025)
Archaeology of Technology (L. Maher, S2024)
Environmental Archaeology (J. Habu, S2021; S2022)
Ethical Issues in CRM (W. White, F2024)
Food Anthropology: Food, Agriculture, and Sovereignty (C. Hastorf, F2017, F2021, F2023)
History of Anthropological Thought (R. Joyce, S2022)
Historical Archaeology Research (L. Wilke, S2024)
Human Palaeoecology (L. Maher, S2021, S2023)
The Logic of Sacrifice (D. Funahashi, S2022)
Materialities (R. Joyce, S2023)
Museum Exhibit Curation and Design (R. Joyce, F2021)
Professional Development in Anthropological Archaeology (R. Joyce, S2022)
Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology (S. Agarwal, S2022)
Topics in Archaeobotany (C. Hastorf, F2020)
Department of Political Science
History of Greek Political Thought (K. Hoekstra, F2017)
Department of Rhetoric
Ancient and Modern Selves (J. Porter and R. Nadaff, F2016)
Graduate Theological Union
Dead Sea Scrolls (J. Nati, F2024)
Early Christianity and Roman Enslavement (J. Coogan, F2024)
Pacific School of Religion
Household Religions in Ancient Israel and the Near East (A. Brody, S2018)
Introduction to Old Testament: Social and Religious Transformations (A. Brody, F2020)
