艺术史哲学博士-古代近东和埃及

宾夕法尼亚大学的博士课程为学生提供有关艺术史及其关键方法的广泛培训，同时还针对他们所选领域的重点培训。学生完成博士学位 为大学和学院的教学职位以及博物馆和美术馆的策展职位做好了充分的准备。学院与博士紧密合作。学生在为助学金，策展实习和其他职业发展做准备时，概述适当的学习课程并指导学生。对宾夕法尼亚州古代近东视觉文化的研究涵盖了很长的时间顺序和广泛的地理范围。课程和项目从新石器时代一直延续到波斯时期。虽然总体重点是北部和南部的美索不达米亚和伊朗，但学习计划还包括印度河谷，中亚，
The University of Pennsylvania has a long commitment to the study of ancient Near Eastern cultures of Mesopotamia, Syria, Iran, and Anatolia. Since the nineteenth century, the University Museum has mounted excavations in the Near East. The most important of these were Nippur and Ur, each of which produced thousands of artifacts that have become the basis of the collections at the Penn Museum. From Nippur came cuneiform documents that form the core of the Museum's world-renowned Babylonian Tablet Collection. From Ur came treasures from the Royal Cemetery of Ur (including the entire contents of the grave of Pu Abi), one of the most celebrated sites of the Ancient Near East. In the early twentieth century, the Museum sponsored work in northern Iraq (Tepe Gawra) and in Iran (Tepe Hissar and Cheshm Ali). This Iranian focus increased in the middle of the twentieth century, when the burned city of Hasanlu and ancient Anshan, the elamite highland capital, added substantially to the Museum's holdings. These collections serve as one important foundation for the continued study of the art and archaeology of the Mesopotamian and pre-Islamic Iran by Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities, in the History of Art Department and as a Curator in the Near East Section of the Penn Museum.