Student Activity

NELC PhD candidate, Masoud Ariankhoo , has been selected as one of the finalists in the Three Minute Thesis competition. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a competition for master's and doctoral students to develop and showcase their research communication...

Congratulations to Dr. Conor Dube and Dr. Haci Osman Gündüz (Ozzy) for winning the 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize in Islamic Studies! Dr. Dube won for his dissertation entitled, Interpreting the Qurʾān in the Islamic West (7th – 11th c.)...

Zakir Gul , PhD candidate, has published an article, entitled Wandering Metaphors, Woven Worlds: Icons, Buddha-Idols and Demon-Deities from Inner Asia and India to Ottoman Europe. It has been published by the Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies . A copy of...

Dr. Shaharad Shahvand has published a new article entitled, In Search of Qiwām al-Dīn and Humām al-Dīn al-Kurbālī: Bridging a Gap in the Intellectual History of Fifteenth-Century Shiraz . This article is built on work Dr. Shahvand began in the NELC...

Congratulations to Jana Amin for winning the 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies for her thesis entitled, Tasting Freedom: Palestinian Women's Kitchens as Sites of Ethnography, Refuge, and Resistance in Cairo. The...

Congratulations to Meredith Zielonka for winning the undergraduate 2025 Harry and Cecile Starr Prize! Meredith won for her senior thesis entitled, Fractured but Fortified: Harnessing Ideological and Ethnic Division for Resilient Peacebuilding in Israel...

Congratulations to Jana Amin and Sophie Cooper for winning the 2025 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize! Jana won with her submission entitled, Tasting Freedom: Palestinian Women’s Kitchens as Sites of Ethnography, Refuge, and Resistance in Cairo. Sophie won with...

Congratulations to Sergio Alarcón Robledo for being named a 2025 Harvard Horizons scholar for his lecture, Entangled Ritual and Architectural Practices at North Saqqara. Read the article here to learn more about his work.

NELC PhD student, Carina Dreyer, has written an article entitled, 'Barbarians' or Big Thinkers? , that is featured in the latest edition of the GSAS newsletter, Research from Harvard's PhD Community . Congratulations, Carina!

Dr. Dustin D. Klinger, British Academy International Fellow at the University of Cambridge, has published a book based on his 2021 NELC dissertation. The book entitled, Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900–1500, is...