Maybe twice in 30 years as reviewer, once as editor.

It’s UChicago. Even an Assoc Prof in 1997 might well still be hanging on. I finished my PhD in 93, and when I returned in 22, well let’s say there were some familiar faces. Problem is which dept? at the moment there are 16 Hums depts (though maybe not for much longer)

The library has bound copies only until ca 1990-1991, unfortunately. Maybe his MA supervisor is still out there?

He might have been in the first cohort of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH). Even now, paper versions of theses by students in this MA are not normally lodged with a library (main or departmental). They may be placed on Knowledge@UChicago but this is unlikely for 1997.

Thank you!

Looking forward to the President and Dean coming around asking ISAC and MES colleagues to please translate the Akkadian, Sumerian and Hittite ones 🙂

Please write the President, Provost and Dean of Arts and Humanities. Outrage appreciated, but details of the meaningful value of your degree are even more needed.

Thank you!

Same.

Sadly real. As an alumna, write the dean and president!

Yes, not an ancient/ modern split at all. The Middle Eastern Studies dept admits grad students in both ancient and modern fields, although faculty working in the ancient fields are generally housed in ISAC while moderns are across the street. Classics is one of the “paused” departments also.

Also “paused”: CompLit, Middle Eastern Studies, Slavic Langs and Lit.

Not a hoax. This screenshot is a message sent to a Classics listserv by a colleague that summarises an email sent by the Arts and Humanities dean to faculty in the division. Real UChicago professor here, in Middle East Studies (one of the depts whose PhD admissions is “paused”).

He’s retired and I have his job. He should have done a lot more punching before he left.

Not a hoax (another UChicago professor here).