Director of Graduate Studies
Ann Macy Roth, Clinical Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and the Department of Art History; PhD 1985 (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations/Egyptology) University of Chicago.
Major Interests: Ancient Egyptian society and religion, particularly in the early periods; their expression in monumental architecture and art, including questions of gender, royalty, wealth, and rank; and the archaeology of cemeteries and the rituals and other activities that occurred there.
e-mail address: ann.macy.roth@nyu.edu


Other Faculty
Joan Breton Connelly, Professor of Art History.Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, M.A. Bryn Mawr College, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; A.B. Princeton University, Classics.
Major Interests: The Archaeology of Cyprus, the Arabian Gulf, and the Greek World; Ptolemaic Cyprus; Seleucid Failaka; The Interaction of Hellenism with Cultures of the Near East; Greek Religion, Mythology, and Landscape; Greek Sculpture, Vase Painting, and Architecture; Women in Antiquity.
e-mail address: jbc1@nyu.edu

Daniel E. Fleming, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Assyriology. PhD 1990 (Near Eastern languages and civilization), Harvard; M.Div. 1985 (Bible), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; B.S. 1979 (Geology), Stanford.
Major Interests: Ancient Near Eastern society across Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine/Israel; second-millennium Syria; Assyriology (cuneiform-based languages and literature); Hebrew Bible.
e-mail address: daniel.fleming@nyu.edu

Ogden Goelet, Research Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 1982 (History), M.A. 1975 (History), Columbia; B.A. 1966 (German Literature), Harvard.
Major Interests: Egyptian cultural history; ancient Egyptian religion; Egyptian lexicography.
e-mail address: og1@nyu.edu

Günther Kopke, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts. Ph.D. 1962, Ludwig Maximilians Universität (Munich, Germany).
Major Interests: Prehistoric to early classical Greece; circum-Mediterranean studies; Roman and early medieval civilization in Europe north or the Alps.
e-mail address: gk3@nyu.edu

David O’Connor, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, Institute of Fine Arts. Ph.D. 1969, Cambridge; Postgrad. Dip. 1962, London; B.A. 1958; Sydney.
Major Interests: Ancient Egyptian art and archaeology.
e-mail address: d.oconnor@nyu.edu

Francis E. Peters, Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Religious Studies), History. Ph.D. 1961 (Islamic Studies), Princeton; M.A. 1952 (philosophy and Greek), B.A. 1950 (classics), St. Louis.
Major Interests: Islamic history and religion; comparative Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; Muhammad and the Qur'an; Jesus and Early Christianity.
e-mail address: frank.peters@nyu.edu

Lawrence H. Schiffman, Ethel and Irwin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Chair, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Ph.D. 1974 (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies), M.A. 1970, B.A. 1970 (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies), Brandeis.
Major Interests: Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.
e-mail address: lawrence.shiffman@nyu.edu

Mark S. Smith, Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Ph.D. 1985, M.Phil. 1983. M.A. 1982 (Near Eastern languages), Yale; M.T.S. 1980 (Old Testament), Harvard; M.A. 1979 (Theology), Catholic University of America; B.A. 1976 (English) Johns Hopkins.
Major Interests: Ancient Israelite religion and culture; the Hebrew Bible; Hebrew grammar; the Dead Sea Scrolls; the Ugaritic texts.
e-mail address: mss1@nyu.edu

Rita Wright, Associate Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D. 1984 (Anthropology and archaeology), M.A. 1978 (Anthropology and archaeology), Harvard; B.A. 1975 (Anthropology), Wellesley College.
Major Interests: Urbanism, state formation, gender issues, ceramic analysis, the ancient Near East and South Asia.
e-mail address: rita.wright@nyu.edu