Kathryn Medill (she/her)

Kathryn McConaughy Medill is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East who completed her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins. She taught at Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, and Eastern University before joining the faculty at UW in 2022.

Medill specializes in statistical approaches to Semitic linguistics as well as in the socio-historical development of scribal norms in ancient Judah and other ancient Levantine communities. Current research interests include the coding of motion in Biblical Hebrew and measuring fluidity in Biblical Hebrew texts. Medill also supports efforts to bring the study of the ancient Near East into middle and high schools.

Medill teaches Biblical Hebrew, Introduction to the Old Testament, and Introduction to the Ancient Near East, as well as a variety of courses dealing with biblical and ancient Near Eastern literatures.