Milestones

In May 2019 AAMW awarded two Ph.D.’s and one M.A.: 

• Sophie Crawford-Brown, Ph.D.: tenure-track assistant professor, Rice University, Department of Art History

• Sam Holzman, Ph.D.: Jacob Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

• Samantha Suppes, M.A.: accepted to Ph.D. program, University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Several recent AAMW graduates have accepted tenure-track positions in the past 18 months:

• Sarah Beckmann (AAMW Ph.D. 2016), Department of Classics, UCLA.

• Peter Cobb (AAMW Ph.D. 2016), Division of Information and Technology Studies, University of Hong Kong.

• Margaret Andrews (AAMW Ph.D. 2015), Department of History, University of Chicago.

• Jordan Pickett (AAMW Ph.D. 2015), Department of Classics, University of Georgia.

In addition, Anna Sitz (AAMW Ph.D. 2017) has been renewed for a four-year, full-time postdoctoral position with the research group "Materiale Textkulturen" at the University of Heidelberg.

In 2019–20 we welcome two new graduate students, Brigitte Keslinke and Kacie Alaga. We look forward to the unique contributions they will bring to the AAMW community.