Recent Faculty Activity
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
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 with Harvard Professor Dr Ali Asani The Express Tribune, 01/15/2017: A global...
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...
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...
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. His book is...
Peter Manuelian received a grant from the Rothenberg Fund
Peter Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, received a $6,000 grant from the Anne and Jim Rothenberg Fund for Humanities Research. His project "Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology: The Ashton Sanborn Papers", will process a Harvard-MFA...
Justine Landau receives award for Book of the Year in Iranian studies
We are pleased to announce that Justine Landau, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is the recipient of the World Award for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of Iranian...
Professor Jon Levenson published a new book "The Love of God"
Congratulations, Professor Levenson! The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people...
David Stern has published a new book
David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature has published Jewish Literary Cultures: Volume I, The Ancient Period (Penn State University Press). This first installment in...
NELC course Ancient Near East 103 in Harvard Gazette: watch video
Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives Students in ANE 103, through music and taste connected with the ancients. Barjamovic, a lecturer on Assyriology and instructor for Ancient Lives noted that the class demonstration with the musical instrument replicas...
Book published by Khaled el-Rouayheb, on Islamic Intellectual History
In July 2015, Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History, published a new book: Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century: Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb...