Visiting Research Scholars Alumni News

This article first appeared in ISAW Newsletter 19, Fall 2017.

Nicola Aravecchia, VRS 2009-10, will start a new position as Assistant Professor of Classics & Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis in January 2018.

Gilles Bransbourg, Research Associate and VRS 2010-11, began teaching as an Adjunct Professor in the NYU Department of Classics in spring 2017.

Frederic Clark, VRS 2015-17, was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rice University’s Humanities Research Center for the 2017-18 academic year.

Matteo Compareti, VRS 2013-14, was appointed International Expert in the School of Art at Renmin University of China in September 2016.

Pam Crabtree, VRS 2015, was promoted to Full Professor in the NYU Department of Anthropology in September 2017.

Damián Fernández, VRS 2009-10, was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University in August 2017.

Emily Hammer, VRS 2012-14, was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania in July 2017.

Sabine R. Huebner, VRS 2007-8, has been appointed Visiting Professor in the Humanities Council and Stewart Fellow in Religion at Princeton University for spring 2018.

Gina Konstantopoulos, VRS 2015-17, was appointed Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Theology, at the University of Helsinki in August 2017.

Vincent Leung, VRS 2014-15, was appointed Associate Professor of Chinese History at Lingnan University (Hong Kong) in August 2017.

Rachel Mairs, VRS 2007-8, was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Reading.

Maya Maskarinec, VRS 2016-17, was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern California in August 2017.

Franziska Naether, VRS 2015-16, was awarded a Visiting Research Scholarship in the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa for six months beginning November 2017.

John Nicholas Reid, VRS 2014-15, was appointed Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) in January 2017.

Robert Spengler, VRS 2016-17, recently began a new position as Laboratory Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

Juan Manuel Tebes, VRS 2015, has been appointed Visiting Associate Professor in the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan for fall 2017.

Kevin van Bladel, VRS 2008-9, was appointed Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University in July 2017.