Nancy Ko (BA '17)  has been named a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, awarded to support her work towards a PhD in History at Columbia University. She joins the dynamic 20 year old community which includes individuals such as former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; California Surgeon General Nadine Burke-Harris; Stanford AI leader Fei-Fei Li; Lieutenant Governor of Washington Cyrus Habib; composer Paola Prestini; computational biologist Pardis Sabeti; award-winning writer Kao Kalia Yang, and more than 600 other New American leaders...

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The Foundation for Iranian Studies has cited Dr. Ames’s dissertation titled Looking for the Human: Sufism, Selfhood, and Iranian Modernity with honorable mention for "superior scholarship, originality, clarity, and the significant contribution it makes to the field of Iranian Studies" in the category of the Best Ph.D. Dissertation of the Year on a Topic of Iranian Studies. Congratulations, Rob! 
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We are pleased to announce the new exchange agreement between Harvard University and the American University in Cairo (AUC). Under this agreement, AUC will be hosting a Harvard PhD student in Spring 2019.

"We are very excited about this new collaborative exchange agreement between Harvard and AUC, and look forward to increased 'traffic' on this two-way street between Cairo and Cambridge," says Professor Peter...

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Lawrence Stager, the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, emeritus at NELC, Harvard University, passed away on December 29, 2017, at the age of 74. Join us in honoring the life and accomplishments of Dr. Stager, as we remember his distinguished, and...

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An Alumnus of the École Normale Superieure and an Arthur Sachs Fellow at Harvard's Department of History (2014-2017), Joel Sebban holds a Ph.D in modern religious history from Sorbonne University (2017) (book in preparation for Odile Jacob:... Read more about Joël Sebban, NELC Post Doctoral Fellow, dissertation to be published by Editions Odile Jacob

Please join the department in welcoming three new members to our community:

Madeleine (Mandy) Cohen, Preceptor in Yiddish (academic year 2017-18). Cohen is our newly appointed Yiddish preceptor, and will teach Yiddish language at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (YIDDISH AA/AB; BA/BB; CA/CB). Her research focuses on Yiddish literature in the early 20th century with comparative work in German, Polish and Hebrew...

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