
Contact Information
Biography
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.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Summer 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
MELC 600 "In Search of the Hurrians"
MELC 600 "Readings in Biblical Criticism"
TXTDS 405 Capstone "An Archive of Missionary Letters from the Ottoman Empire"
Coming up in 2025-2026 Winter and Spring:
Biblical Prophets (winter MW 3:30-4:50)
Archaeology of Warfare and Empire (winter MW 10:30)
Wisdom Literature in the Bible and the Ancient Middle East (spring MW 10:30-12:20)
From Israelites to Jews: 586 BCE to 70 CE (spring MW 3:30-4:50)