Kathryn Medill (she/her)

Assistant Teaching Professor
Kathryn Medill

Contact Information

Denny M 220B
Office Hours
Fall 2025: Mon 3:40-4:40 PM, Tues 12:20-1:20 (walk in!) - See the course syllabus for our TA's office hours!

Biography

Ph.D., Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics, Johns Hopkins, 2020
M.A., Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins
M.A., Linguistics, Indiana University, 2014
B.A., Biblical Languages/Linguistics, Geneva College, 2011
Curriculum Vitae (500.97 KB)

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.

Autumn 2025

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Autumn 2024

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Autumn 2023

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Autumn 2022

Additional Courses

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)

Professional Affiliations
Society of Biblical Literature, ASOR, AOS, National Association of Professors of Hebrew
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