William Foxwell Albright Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Studies; PhD, Harvard University
P. Kyle McCarter received his B.A. in English from the University of Oklahoma in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1974. He was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Virginia from 1974 to 1985. In 1985 he became the William Foxwell Albright Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, where he served until his retirement in 2018.
Current Interests: Researching the evolution of the alphabet, the close interpretation and reanalysis of biblical prose narrative, and ancient medicine.