Internal Newsletter
Every month the department circulates an internal newsletter that contains opportunities for students, upcoming events, and department updates. The intended audience of this newsletter is NELC affiliated students, faculty, scholars, and staff. Those with NELC affiliation are automatically added to the internal newsletter distribution list. If you are no longer affiliated with the department or wish to be removed from the list, please contact nelc@fas.harvard.edu. 

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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...

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...

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...