Scott Abramson, PhD Candidate in Jewish Studies, received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Under the direction of two co-advisors, Professor Lev Hakak and Professor Steven Spiegel, Scott is writing his dissertation on…
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NELC Students Speak at Society of Biblical Literature Pacific Coast Regional Meeting
Published: March 16, 2018On Sunday, March 11 2018, a handful of our very own NELC students made their way to Hope International University in Fullerton, CA for the Society of Biblical Literature Pacific…
Read MoreDr. Shushan Karapetian Awarded Young Scholar Award in Heritage Language Education
Published: March 15, 2018On February 16, 2018, Dr.Shushan Karapetian, NELC alumni and current lecturer of Armenian Studies at UCLA, received the Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award in Heritage Language Education for her extraordinary work on…
Read MoreEgyptology Student Wins 2018 Grad Slam Competition
Published: March 8, 2018Marissa Stevens, Egyptology Graduate Student, won UCLA’s 2018 Grad Slam Competition last night, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Grad Slam is a campus-wide competition that showcases and awards the best 3-minute…
Read MoreEgyptology Graduate Student Receives J. Clawson Mills Scholarship at the MET
Published: March 6, 2018Michael Chen, a Ph.D. Candidate in NELC, has received the J. Clawson Mills Scholarship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2018-2019 academic year. He will be an Art…
Read MoreProfessor Ismail Receives 25th World Award for Book of the Year in Iran
Published: January 8, 2018Professor Ismail K. Poonawala’s book entitled “Sciences of the Soul and Intellect, Part III; An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 39-41” co-authored with Carmela Baffioni, and published…
Read MoreRecent PhD Graduate Receives Coveted Postdoc at Brown University
Published: November 28, 2017Recent graduate, Levi Thompson, receives 2017 – 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Brown University’s Pembroke Center. Dr. Thompson is the Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s…
Read MoreJeremy Smoak Publishes in Near Eastern Archaeology
Published: November 21, 2017“Reading and Writing in the Dark at Khirbet el-Qom: The Literacies of Ancient Subterranean Judah,” by Alice Mandell and Jeremy Smoak is now available in the latest edition of Near Eastern…
Read MoreUCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Professors Aaron A. Burke and Katherine S. Burke Collaborate on Second Volume of “The History and Archaeology of Jaffa”
Published: November 6, 2017Since 2007, the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project, under the direction of Aaron A. Burke, Katherine S. Burke, and Martin Peilstöcker, has endeavored to bring to light the vast archaeological and historical…
Read MoreAssistant Professor in Islamic Studies
Published: September 12, 2017The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in Islamic Studies at the rank of Assistant…
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