Recent Faculty Activity

Peter Der Manuelian awarded Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

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Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, has just been awarded funding through the spring 2019 competition of the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship for his project, ...

Dr. Piotr Steinkeller Awarded University of Chicago 2019 Alumni Medal

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Renowned Mesopotamian...

Peter Der Manuelian awarded Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities

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Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, has just been awarded a $3000 Harvard University Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities. This will be used to augment and enhance our free Egyptian...

Department Chair Khaled El-Rouayheb publishes new book, "The Development of Arabic Logic 1200-1800"

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History and Chair of the Department Khaled El-Rouayheb has recently published a major (even monumental) contribution to the field, titled "The Development of Arabic Logic 1200-1800" and published by Schwabe.

Congratulations, Khaled!

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The Search for a California Sphinx

Professor Peter Der Manuelian hosted the production team behind documentary on ‘Ten Commandments’ mystery titled The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

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Peter Der Manuelian Awarded 'Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship'

Professor Peter Der Manuelian's project, A Transformative Paradigm for Research and Teaching: Augmented Reality and Ancient Mesopotamia, was selected among over thirty compelling proposals submitted by fellow faculty members to receive funding in the amount of $46,000. Congratulations, professor Manuelian!!

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Experiencing the “Dream Stela” and Sphinx

The “Dream Stela” of King Thutmose IV stands today between the front legs of the Sphinx at Giza, Egypt. Professors and curators at The Harvard Semitic Musuem have used advanced techniques to reproduce the stela and Sphinx - the former physically and latter in virtual reality.

View the video introduction on the Harvard University YouTube page.

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Gojko Barjamovic Featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and More

Gojko Barjamovic and colaborators Thomas Chaney, Kerem A. Cosar, and Ali Hortacsu, developed an algorithm based on trade data from 12,000 ancient clay tablets. The results help corroborate the historical location of 11 lost Bronze Age cities.

“In a rare example of collaboration across disciplines, we use a theory-based quantitative method from economics to inform this quest in the field...

David Stern Awarded Cabot Fellowship

Professor Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, was awarded the 2018 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship award. He receives this distinction in recognition of his achievments and scholarly eminence in the field, including the publication The Jewish Bible: A Material History. Congratulations, Professor Stern!

Peter Der Manuelian Awarded NEH, "Digital Projects for the Public" Grant

NEH, Digital Projects for the Public grant awarded to Peter Der Manuelian

Project Title: Digital Giza

Project Description: Production of an immersive website exploring the history, culture, and archaeology of the Giza plateau.

$350,000

Malika Zeghal and Naseem Surhio Recognized for Advising Excellence. Congratulations!

Zeghal and Surhio recognized for advising

Professor Ali Asani travels and lectures in Pakistan, January 2017

Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, recently traveled to Pakistan:

The Daily Times, 01/19/2017: Ali Sethi pays ode to regional poets...

Peter Manuelian awarded Rothenberg and Provostial research funds

Ann and Jim Rothenberg Fund for Humanities Research Grant
Nov. 2016: awarded $5,000
Project: “Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology: The Lost Ashton Sanborn Papers” Part 2
Peter Der Manuelian, NELC/Anthropology, Harvard Semitic Museum

Abstract: Recent discovery of the dig letters of HU–MFA Expedition staff member Ashton Sanborn in the Schlesinger Library has provided a treasure trove of archaeological data unknown to the scholarly world. Great progress has been made over the past six months, thanks to a spring 2016 Rothenberg grant, in scanning and...

Peter Manuelian awarded a Barajas Dean's Innovation Fund grant

His proposal Digital Epigraphy: A New Approach to Documenting Art and Archaeology is in support of Peter's Egyptian 200 class (fall 2016). The class is a graduate level course in the reading of primary Egyptian texts. This semester features readings in Old Egyptian, along with basic training in digital epigraphy.

The amount of the award is $10,762. More information on the Barajas Dean’s Innovation Fund for Digital Arts and Humanities may be found here.

Khaled El-Rouayheb named 2016 Cabot Fellow

Eleven faculty members have been awarded 2016 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications, among them NELC's own Khaled El-Rouayheb, the James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History.

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