Recent Student Activity
Hilo Sugita, G2, Wins Distinguished Distinguished Thesis Award
Congratulations once again, Hilo Sugita! Her M.A. thesis Uncovering the Dead: An Extensive Study of the Late Period Coffin Lid of Qnw-pw-s at the Eskenazi Museum of Art – Indiana University has been selected as a Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools...
NELC Graduate Forum: An Evening of Art and Culture
On Tuesday February 20, Curator Suheyla Takesh of the Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE) led a conversation on art titled "On the Emergence and Evolution of Modern Art in the Arab World." The NELC Graduate Forum talk was followed by music and...
Eric Fredrickson Named 2018 Harvard Horizons Scholar
NELC PhD candidate Eric Fredrickson is named a 2018 Harvard Horizons Scholar. His work Old Texts and New Methods is deemed representative of the extraordinary research produced by Harvard PhD students. Congratulations, Eric! Click here to read the full...
A Night of Armenian Culture: ARMEN AA Students Bring Language Studies to Life
Armenian food, songs and poems, and original creative works were shared amongst students and friends of Armenian AA: Elementary Modern Armenian. The NELC sponsored event was held during Reading Period, giving students the opportunity to share their final...
Hilo Sugita, G2, Wins Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award!
Hilo Sugita (G2) has won an award for her M.A. thesis, Uncovering the Dead: An Extensive Study of the Late Period Coffin Lid of Qnw-pw-s at the Eskenazi Museum of Art – Indiana University. Her thesis is the highest evaluated for the Indiana University...
Nancy Ko, AB 2017, named a Rhodes Scholar. Congratulations!
NELC's Nancy Ko (AB 2017) is among four of Harvard’s newest Rhodes Scholars, named on Saturday 11/19/2016.. Congratulations to Nancy! See the Harvard Gazette article here.
NELC concentrators are named Rhodes Scholars
Two NELC concentrators are among five of Harvard’s newest Rhodes Scholars: Rivka Hyland, and Hassaan Shahawy, both of the class of 2016. Congratulations to both! Read the complete Gazette article here.
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...
Nancy Ko Named Safra Undergraduate Fellow in Ethics
Congratulations to junior NELC concentrator Nancy Ko on being named one of only 13 Edmond J. Safra Undergraduate Fellows in Ethics for 2015-16! Nancy is interested in the ethics of historiography, particularly the dialectic between language, evidence, and...
David Owen is a Fulbright-DDRA Scholar
David Owen is a Fulbright-DDRA Scholar to Mauritania, Spain, and Morocco, and currently affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. In April, David gave a seminar at the Complutense University of Madrid: Ibn...
Gojko Barjamovic's ANE 103 class was awarded another Elson Family grant
The spring 2015 course ANE 103, "Ancient Lives", taught by Gojko Barjamovic, Lecturer on Assyriology, was awarded a second Elson Family grant of $5,000, to support the making of more resin casts. The grant was awarded to Peter Manuelian, Philip J. King...