The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, in collaboration with the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies and the Department of Anthropology, brought together ancient world scholars and food professionals to recreate ancient recipes with the goal of better understanding ancient food ways and habits.
Our graduating class of 2018 embodies ISAW's breadth along disciplinary, cultural, and chronological dimensions, and we are proud to introduce them as ISAW's newest alumni.
ISAW is an independent research center within NYU that cultivates comparative and connective investigations of the ancient old world from the Mediterranean to East Asia. It was founded by Shelby White and the Leon Levy Foundation in 2006.