Finding a New Spin on the Old World with the Save Ancient Studies Alliance / VIRTUAL

The Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) was founded in reaction to the devaluation of the study of the ancient world in universities and high schools. A group of graduate students and early career scholars came together to expand exposure and access to the ancient world and re-envision how the ancient world is studied. Through free virtual Text-in-Translation Reading Groups, social media campaigns, book clubs, ask an expert Q&As, and more, they are evolving what it means to study and share the ancient world.

Come meet members of the SASA team and learn about the Archeogaming project they’ve been working on and sharing right here in North Carolina thanks to collaborators at UNC and support from HPG.

Paige Brevick is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Her dissertation research uses museum studies methodologies to explore exhibitionary strategy in Egyptology displays. She currently serves as Executive Director at Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) and contributed to the Circulating Artefacts project at the British Museum, tracking looted Egyptian antiquities on the arts market. She completed her MA in Egyptian Art & Archaeology at the University of Memphis and was the recipient of the JW Brittan Egyptology Fellowship. She has served as a consultant on numerous collections and exhibit installations in the United States, mainly focusing on the display of Egyptian, Near Eastern, and African art. She has studied Hebrew, Aramaic, and Middle Egyptian. She is Lead of SASA’s Archeogaming Project, which received an HPG Critical Issues Project in 2022.

David Danzig is the founder and director of SASA, which draws on his experiences in universities, passion for the ancient world, and talent for bringing people together to work on projects. He is also Lead Researcher on the Shanati Project, supported with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is working to reconstruct the daily ancient Babylonian Calendar. He received his PhD in Ancient Near Eastern History at this May from New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. David scholarship focuses on mining ancient texts to build understandings of how immigrant identities developed in their new contexts. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three beautiful children.