The Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations is devoted to providing students with a unique learning experience and the skills and tools required to pursue rich and fulfilling careers and lives. The curriculum strengthens a student's ability to communicate, reason, and understand the social, cultural, and physical environment. The department fosters careful and creative thinking in our students based in the linguistic, cultural, and historical roots of the rich, varied, and strategically important societies of the Mediterranean basin.
Utilizing the diverse resources of the Washington, D.C. area in fulfilling our linguistic and cultural mission, we provide students with field trips to and assignments at local museums, walking tours of Classical Washington, promotion of foreign films and lectures, and cultural programs and internships at embassies. We have arranged internships at Washington institutions, including magazines and professional journals, the Smithsonian Institution, the Middle East Institute, and other area resources. Our students have opportunities to study abroad, most recently in Israel, Morocco, and Europe, and are assisted in finding opportunities to participate in excavations.
is an experienced field archaeologist, with 28 seasons of excavation and survey to his credit since 1980. His primary fields of study are the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present and the international connections between Greece, Egypt, and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age.
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