Previous Near Eastern Studies PhD's
Ann Brener:
Thesis "Isaac ibn Khalfun: A Professional Hebrew Poet of the Eleventh Century"
1999
Job Placement: Hebraic Specialist, Library of Congress
YiYi Chen:
Thesis "Israelian Hebrew in the book of Proverbs" 2000
Job Placement: Director, Institute for Hebrew & Jewish Studies,
Peking U.
Colin Smith:
Thesis "With an iron pen and a diamond tip: Linguistic peculiarities of the book of
Jeremiah" 2003
Job Placement: Professor, Baptist Bible College & Piedmont Bible College & Grad
School
Clinton Moyer:
Thesis "Literary and linguistic studies in Sefer Bil' am" 2009
Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew Bible School of Divinity, Wake
Forest U.
Sarah Pearce:
Thesis "'No achievement but through Arabic': The Ibero-Almohad education of
Samuel ibn" 2011
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Spanish & Near Eastern Languages &
Civilizations, NYU
Hamza Mahmood:
Thesis “The Qur’an’s Communal Ideology: Rhetoric and Representation in Scripture
and Early Historiography” 2014
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations,
Washington, U
Dustin Nash:
Thesis "Your brothers, the Children of Israel: Ancient Near Eastern Political
Discourse and the Process of Biblical Composition" 2014
Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in PreModern Judaism, Muhlenberg College
Adam Bursi:
Thesis "Holy Spit and Magic Spells: Religion, Magic, and the Body in Late
Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" 2015
Job Placement: Appointed as the Dee Haslam Postdoctoral Fellowship (up to
two years) at the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
University of Tennessee