While at IAS, Aaron
Michael Butts, Member in the School of Historical Studies, is
focused on the languages, literatures, and history of Christianity
in the Near East, including especially Arabic, Ethiopic, and
Syriac. The recent discovery of the...
Suzanne Akbari, Professor in the
School of Historical Studies, convened a workshop on November 19,
2019, of researchers from the University of Toronto, Princeton
University, and other institutions—as well as Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation...
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in conjunction with the
Persian Heritage Foundation (PHF) announce the award of a PHF grant
to support the study of Zaydism in Iran—part of a major research
project spearheaded by Sabine
Schmidtke, Professor in...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded a Humboldt
Research Award for her academic achievements. The grant will
support Schmidtke's project “Travelling Knowledge: Towards a
Historical Bibliography of the...
Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
Other elected scholars include Shirley M. Tilghman, IAS Trustee;
William Nielsen
Brandt...
The Archaeological Institute of America has awarded its 2020
James R. Wiseman Book Award to The Iranian Expanse:
Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and
the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE (University of
California Press...
Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School
of Historical Studies, will participate in a roundtable discussion
on Saturday, November 16, with the editors of the new academic
journal Capitalism: A Journal of History and
Economics.
Maribel Fierro, Member
(1994–95) and Visitor (2015) in the School of Historical Studies,
has been recognized with the Middle East Medievalists Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Conferred annually, the award recognizes scholars who have
served the field of...
“Calendars are the bones of history,” writes Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in
the School of Historical Studies, in his opening lines of a New
York Review of Books review of Time and Its Adversaries in the
Seleucid Empire by Paul Kosmin, a...
H-France Salon has published a series of tributes in
honor of Natalie Zemon
Davis, acclaimed early modern historian and former Member
(1978) in the School of Social Science, on the occasion of her
ninetieth birthday. The tributes were originally...
