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Jocelyn Burney: Digging into the lives of ancient Jewish communities

April 4, 2023

Religious studies Ph.D. student Jocelyn Burney relishes the public humanities aspect of her graduate work — from contextualizing a pottery exhibit in Carolina Hall to teaching the Hebrew Bible at a Raleigh women’s prison to supervising the work of undergraduate students at an archaeological dig in Israel.

The layers beneath the church

October 31, 2022

Summer Research Fellow Michelle Freeman visited cemeteries in Croatia, North Macedonia and Greece to learn how saints were venerated in the 4th century.