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Off-Campus Study - USA

U.C. Berkeley and the AHMA program have had long standing relations with the following organizations and have often provided their graduate students the opportunity to study under their direction.

American Numismatic Society

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The mission of the American Numismatic Society is to be the preeminent national institution advancing the study and appreciation of coins, medals and related objects of all cultures as historical and artistic documents, by maintaining the foremost numismatic...

Placement News

May 12, 2023
Emily Mackil

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 Medieval Studies at MIT.

Congratulations, Jesse and Eric!

Christian Hall wins Gruen Prize

May 12, 2023
Emily Mackil

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.

Congratulations, Christian!

Elizabeth Fajardo

B. A., Classics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2020

I began my academic career at Hobart and William Smith Colleges where I double majored in Economics and Classics with honors. For my senior thesis, I conducted an heterodox economic analysis of Roman Red Sea trade; I argued for the inversion of Polanyi’s methods of economic integration, focusing on the intersection of market exchange and long-distance trade in the Egyptian Eastern Desert. At Berkeley, I have conducted more qualitative economic studies, focusing on the experience of laborers and the development of human capital...

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Research Activities & Opportunities

AHMA students and faculty are active researchers. Many projects are of such scale and complexity that collaboration is required. Below are some of the archaeological and historical research projects in which AHMA students and faculty are currently invovled. Archaeological Excavations

For AHMA students interested in learning and practicing archaeological techniques first-hand, U.C. Berkeley sponsors or is associated with a number of important excavations around the world.

Çatalhöyük, Turkey Professor Ruth Tringham (Anthropology)

The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük was first discovered...

Study Abroad

U.C. Berkeley and the AHMA program have had long-standing relations with the following organizations and have often provided its graduate students the opportunity to study under their direction.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Now the largest of fourteen foreign advanced research institutes in Athens, the American School serves the students and faculty of 157 affiliated colleges and universities in North America. Governed in academic matters by a Managing Committee formed of representatives from these member...