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You're missing two of the major programs for Egyptian art history, Emory and Memphis. The latter has a funded MA program that serves as a feeder to good PhD programs. If you strike out this year, they're worth a look if you haven't ruled them out before. http://arthistory.emory.edu/home/graduate/index.html http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/

Is that simply tuition/expenses, or does it include a sufficient living stipend as well? There's quite a difference.

UBC and Brown have some pretty good basic archaeology books on their PhD reading lists. http://cnrs.ubc.ca/2013/02/08/ph-d-in-classical-archaeology-reading-list/ http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/graduate/field.html Take an especially close look at Alcock and Osborne's Classical Archaeology. For archaeology in general, I recommend Trigger's A History of Archaeological Thought and Renfrew and Bahn's Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice.

NYU (Daniel Fleming and Mark Smith), Brandeis (Tzvi Abusch and David Wright), and Johns Hopkins (Ted Lewis and Kyle McCarter) would all be great choices, I think. There's also Berkeley, Chicago (Dennis Pardee), Harvard (though their department seems to be in flux), Penn State, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, Emory, maybe Michigan...

Near Eastern archaeology differs from many other fields of archaeology in being very, very language heavy. Akkadian, Sumerian, and the like aren't easy, and it's a huge waste of money and resources if people wash out. For that reason, many programs unofficially require at least a year of Akkadian. If that's the case, no quantity of conference presentations or whatnot will make up for a glaring academic deficiency like that -- they'd much rather admit someone who's already mastered the relevant languages and can move on to more interesting and relevant things. A master's program or some language coursework at a good seminary school are the typical ways of working around this. French and German are also musts, colorless. What's your language background like? And yes, it's a very competitive field. Only about a dozen schools offer Near Eastern archaeology at all, and only about half of those are actually good at it. With 1-2 students (tops) in the subfield admitted at each school each year, it's obviously an insanely competitive process.

I'm still waiting for a rejection letter! What is taking so long, I haven't the faintest idea.

Thanks for the update.

Congrats! Do you know if they've sent out *all* the acceptances to the archaeology program? I'm hoping not, but I figure they have...

MA in classical archaeology.

Waiting on UBC and Florida State here.

Thanks for the info, all. I guess I'll continue biting my nails and waiting impatiently.

The MA program in Classics.

There was some discussion earlier about UBC. Does anyone know where they are in the admissions process?

Can anyone else elaborate on living in Baltimore without a car? Most of my schools are in cities with great public transportation (NYC, SF, Chicago), so I'm wondering how good Baltimore is in that respect.

Thanks, guys!

I'll be starting Latin this year, and I have the option of taking Sanskrit (sometimes offered) as well. I'm pretty good with languages and have a couple other IE languages down pat (Greek, German, French), but starting two languages is something I've rarely tried before (though I did it successfully with Greek and Egyptian), and I'm not sure what to expect from Sanskrit. Any opinions?