Department Announcements

Newly-Founded Ancient Studies at Harvard Initiative

Ancient Studies at Harvard (https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/) is a newly-founded initiative that aims to increase the visibility of historical, archaeological, literary, and theological engagement with antiquity at our university.... Read more about Newly-Founded Ancient Studies at Harvard Initiative

Congratulations to NELC's 2020 Graduates! Recording now available

Graduates

NELC congratulates each of its 2020 graduates, and the entire graduating class of Harvard 2020! We honor your hard work and commitment through this especially trying time, and wish the best of luck and success in your future adventures and endeavors.

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Harvard Semitic Museum Renamed Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

NELC's home has been renamed to the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East...

NELC Alumna Sadaf Jaffer (PhD 2015) Becomes NJ's First South Asian Woman Mayor

From Huffpost:

By Carol Kuruvilla, 1/31/19 (formatted for clarity)

New Jersey’s First South Asian Woman Mayor Is Breaking Boundaries

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An Interview with Professor William Granara

For almost 16 years, Professor William Granara has served as the Director of Modern Language Programs (DLP) at our department. Ozzy Gündüz (G3) and Johannes Makar (G2) sat down with him to reflect on his experiences, research projects and love of Arabic and Arabic literature.

Digital Giza Project in Washington Post

From The Washington Post:

By Erin Blakemore.
June 2, 2019.

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Digital Giza Project in Harvard Gazette

From The Harvard Gazette:

by Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer.
May 15, 2019.

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Alumnus Nancy Ko named a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow!

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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Alumnus Dr. Rob Ames Awarded Honorable Mention For Ph.D. Dissertation!

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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Harvard University Partners with AUC's Department of Egyptology

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...

Welcoming New Faculty and Visitors to NELC for 2018-19!

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

Sara Feldman, Preceptor of Yiddish. Feldman is our newly appointed Yiddish preceptor, and will teach Yiddish language at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (YIDDISH AA/AB; YIDDISH BA/BB; YIDDISH CA/CB...

NELC Alumni Day 2018

March • 23 • 2018

Dr. Adam Aja, PHD 2009
Harvard Semitic Museum, Assistant Curator of Collections
Dr. Gabriel Hornung, PHD 2016
Trinity College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
Dr. Shady Nasser, PHD 2011
Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Dr....

In Memoriam: Lawrence Stager (1943–2017)

stager 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...

Joël Sebban, NELC Post Doctoral Fellow, dissertation to be published by Editions Odile Jacob

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

New Jersey’s First South Asian Woman Mayor Is Breaking Boundaries

For almost 16 years, Professor William Granara has served as the Director of Modern Language Programs (DLP) at our department. Ozzy Gündüz (G3) and Johannes Makar (G2) sat down with him to reflect on his experiences, research projects and love of Arabic and Arabic literature.

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