Historical Studies

Writing for the New York Review of Books, Professor Emeritus Glen Bowersock reviews Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha, writing:

“Nur Masalha challenges his readers by the provocative and, it has to be said, wholly indefensible...

Irving Lavin (1927–2019), Professor in the School of Historical Studies for forty-five years, will be named Grand'Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana at a ceremony taking place at the Consulate General of Italy in New York.

The...

In the Wall Street Journal, Katherine Epstein, Member in the School of Historical Studies, turns to history to analyze U.S. hand-wringing over the global telecommunications threat posed by Chinese manufacturing giant Huawei.

Epstein highlights the...

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the Institute's School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa by the Ionian University at a ceremony in Corfu on February 27, 2019. Chaniotis was...

Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, one of America’s most distinguished art historians, passed away in Princeton on February 3 at the age of 91. Lavin wrote extensively on the history of art from late antiquity to...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, specializing in Islamic intellectual history, will participate in a panel discussion hosted by the University of Pennsylvania at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30, 2019.

Sharing...

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic of Iran has awarded Maurice Alex Pomerantz, Member (2015–16) in the School of Historical Studies, its World Award for Book of the Year in recognition of Licit Magic: The Life and...

The Atlantic's Sarah Zhang shares the story of an unexpected discovery in the dental plaque of a one-thousand-year-old German woman, showing how a team of researchers including Alison Beach, Member (2013–14) and Visitor (2017) in the School of...

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750, edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies in the School of Historical Studies, and Michael Maas, Member (2000–01) in...

Christian C. Sahner, Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oxford, writes in the Wall Street Journal of the civil war in Yemen and the Islamic manuscripts that are in peril:

“Scholars do not have a precise grasp of what has...