Recent Student Activity
Will Leonard Wins 2024 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize
Congratulations to Will Leonard! Will's paper entitled, Putting CO2 Six Feet Under: A Cyanobacterial Carbon Removal System in North Africa, has been awarded the 2024 Thomas T. Hoopes prize for excellent undergraduate work.
Congratulations to Sergio Alarcón Robledo for the Egypt Exploration Society Centenary Award
NELC PhD candidate, Sergio Alarcón Robledo, has received the Egypt Exploration Society Centenary Award in support of of the archaeological project in North Saqarra, Egypt. The outcome of this topographic survey will be offered to the Ministry of Tourism...
Khalil Andani Wins Foundation for Iranian Studies Dissertation Prize
The Foundation for Iranian Studies has chosen Khalil Andani’s dissertation “Revelation in Islam: Qur’ānic, Sunni, and Shiʿi Ismaili Perspectives” submitted to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, as the recipient of the Foundation's...
Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell (AB '21) named a Rhodes Scholar
Wilfried Kuugauraq Zibell (AB '21), dual concentrator in NELC, is among six Harvard College seniors awarded 2020 Rhodes Scholarships. Congratulations! See The Harvard Gazette article here Wilfried is also the fourth NELC student to win the Rhodes...
Gavin Moulton Wins 2020 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize
Congratulations to Gavin Moulton! His Senior Thesis entitled, Şişli Mosque: The Changing Aesthetics and Politics of Mosque Building, Restoration, and Calligraphy in the Turkish Republic, 1923-1957 was awarded the 2020 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize Winners for...
Hannah Hess Receives Honorable Mention for Thesis from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program!
Hannah Hess (AB '19) has been awarded an honorable mention from the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program for her excellent thesis entitled, “Debating Misyār: Temporary Marriage in Contemporary Saudi Arabia” in which she analyzes both Arabic...
Julia Puglisi Wins Distinguished Master's Thesis Award!
Julia Puglisi, NELC Ph.D. candidate in Egyptology, has won the Indiana University 2018 Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award! Her M.A. thesis titled, The Mechanics of Egyptian Paronomasia: Applying Pattern Recognition Search to the Ramesside Dream Manual is...
Western Armenian at Harvard: Through the Student's Eyes
"Learning and Speaking Armenian at Harvard University" has almost 120k views! Thank you for capturing the magic of your Western Armenian course and your passion for the subject, Michael He Lin Fei! Watch the video: goo.gl/8PV8wQ
Timothy Doner Wins 2018 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize
Congratulations to Timothy Doner! His Senior Thesis entitled, Blood, Soil, and Oil: A Study of Fascism in Post-War Iran was awarded the 2018 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize Winners for excellent undergraduate work and excellence in the art of teaching.
Eric Fredrickson Delivers Harvard Horizons Talk
Eric Fredrickson, PhD candidate, spoke at the 2018 Harvard Horizons symposium. His talk is titled "Old Texts and New Methods." Watch his Harvard Horizons talk now: https://buff.ly/2jNtPEl
An Evening of Middle Eastern Poetry
Thank you to the faculty, students, and friends of NELC department who contributed to this year’s “Evening of Middle Eastern Poetry!" Special thanks to our generous sponsor The Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies.
Distinguished Graduate Teaching: Fall 2017
We are pleased to announce the Fall Semester 2017 recipients of the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. This award reflects a Q score of 4.5 or higher in the "overall" category from 5 or more respondents. Rushain Abbasi Osnat Aharoni Mary Elston...