Tom Elliott
It's time for the 2026 #ISAWNYU commencement ceremony!
The fourth #ISAWNYU Phd celebrated today is Dr. Katherine Thomson, introduced by Prof. Sebastian Heath. https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/students/katherine-thomson
Our third new PhD at #ISAWNYU is Dr. Emily Frank, introduced by Prof. Sebastian Heath.
The second new #ISAWNYU PhD to be celebrated today is Dr. Mariana Castro, introduced by Prof. Sören Stark. https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/students/mariana-castro
4 new PhDs in the Study of the Ancient World from #isawnyu First, faculty member Prof. Robert Hoyland to introduce Dr. Kyle Brunner: https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/students/kyle-brunner
Rounding out the first afternoon panel at #MATW2026 is #ISAWNYU faculty member Antonis Kotsonas: "Inscribed Armor, Personhood, and the Materiality of Writing in Archaic Crete" https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#kotsonas . He's using for a case study a corpus of armor pieces (both inscribed and uninscribed), that were illegally excavated and dispersed in the mid 20th century from Afrati in Crete.
And now at #MATW2026 we've heard from #ISAWNYU doctoral student Christina Stefanou on the topic "Re-materializing the Alphabet: Embodied and Material Entanglements in Phrygian Writing Practice(s)": https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#stefanou
#ancientHistory #archaeology #epigraphy #Phrygians #ancientWriting
At #MATW2026 we've just heard #ISAWNYU doctoral student Manolis Mavromatis present a paper entitled "Materiality of Writing in Post-Hittite Syro-Anatolia: A Quantitative Analysis of Monumental Inscribed Objects": https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#mavromatis
Now at #MATW2026 it's #ISAWNYU PhD student Yu Song delivering a paper entitled "Writing on the Body: Inscriptions on the Early Dynastic Mesopotamian Statues" : https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#song
#ancientHistory #ancientArtHistory #archaeology #ancientMesopotamia #epigraphy