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The UCLA Department of History offers graduate programs specializing in Ancient History, providing comprehensive education spanning the entire ancient Mediterranean world. The curriculum ensures students develop expertise across historical eras from Archaic Greece through Late Antiquity while building interdisciplinary skills in related fields like Classics, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Art History, and Archaeology. Students must achieve proficiency in relevant languages, analytical techniques, research methodologies, and evidentiary sources to make original scholarly contributions. Additionally, the program emphasizes understanding contemporary historical approaches within the broader discipline.
Professor David Phillips (Ph.D. in Classical Studies from University of Michigan; Associate Professor specializing in Greek history and legal history) leads the Ancient History program. The department also benefits from two distinguished emeritus faculty: Mortimer Chambers (Ph.D. in Classics from Harvard University; Greek history specialist) and Ronald Mellor (Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University; Roman history expert). Byzantine historian John Langdon (Ph.D. in Ancient History from UCLA) contributes as a Continuing Lecturer within the History Department.