Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Daniel Newgarden ’25 is a senior undergraduate student concentrating in archaeology and the ancient world as well as Egyptology and Assyriology. His project, tentatively titled “(Re)Constructing the Past: Archaeophilia and Dynastic Aggrandizement in Late Hellenistic North Syria,” consists of an investigation into how the rulers of the Late Hellenistic polities of North Syria and Southeastern Anatolia — most notably Antiochos I of Commagene — used material remains of the Iron Age past to construct monumental architectural and artistic programs, glorifying themselves and their dynasties through an allusion to Asianic pasts. Though this project sits within the domains of archaeology and art history, Newgarden's research interests are diverse. He is especially interested in archaeological, philological, and art historical approaches to the Ancient Near East, but he frequently incorporates anthropological theory into his work and is especially excited by comparative approaches to the study of writing and image. In addition to his research on campus, he is a member of the S'Urachi Project — supported by Brown’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World — and has excavated with them in San Vero Milis, Sardinia for three seasons.