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ISAW Professor Dan Potts Awarded 2024 ASOR Frank Moore Cross Award
by Soraya Garcia | 12/16/2024
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, of which ISAW Professor Dan Potts was one of three co-editors, was awarded the Frank Moore Cross Award at the 2024 American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) meeting.
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ISAW Student, Talia Sankari, Receives Award from The New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
by Soraya Garcia | 12/13/2024
Congratulations to ISAW graduate student Talia Sankari for receiving an award from the Scholars Program of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Talia will join the sixth cohort of the NYS Scholars Program for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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New Book Publication by ISAW Alumnus Andrea Trameri
by Soraya Garcia | 12/11/2024
Andrea Trameri, ISAW Alumnus from the Class of 2020 and Researcher at the University of Würzburg (Germany), has published his new book, Kizzuwatna. History of Cilicia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1200 bc) as part of the series Handbuch der Orientalistik (Handbook of Oriental Studies). This volume is based on his ISAW PhD dissertation, defended in May 2020.
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The Amheida Excavations Featured in the New York Times
by David Ratzan | 11/21/2024
In 2023 the NYU Amheida Excavations completed the excavation of a fourth-century funerary church at the site of ancient Trimithis in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt. The archaeology of the church was the subject of the project's seventh monograph in the ISAW Monograph series, published September, 2024, and subsequently featured by the New York Times.
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New Book Publication by ISAW Alumnus Sam Mirelman
by Soraya Garcia | 11/19/2024
Sam Mirelman, ISAW Alumnus Class of 2018, has published his new book The Performance of Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers in the Late First Millennium BC, as part of the Heidelberger Emesal-Studien book series.
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Prof. Pongratz-Leisten Awarded NEH Grant for Work on Akkadian Ritual Texts
by Soraya Garcia | 11/15/2024
Prof. Beate Pongratz Leisten (ISAW), Elizabeth Knott (College of the Holy Cross; ISAW Affiliated Researcher), and Kate Justement (Princeton University; ISAW Graduate) recently won a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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ISAW Professor Dan Potts Co-Authored New Book Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island
by Soraya Garcia | 11/11/2024
ISAW Professor Daniel Potts co-authored the new book Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island with Willem M Floor.
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ISAW PhD Candidate Allyson Blanck Reports on Her Experience as a 2024 AIA-NYS Archaeological Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient
by Soraya Garcia | 11/04/2024
ISAW student Allyson Blanck received the summer scholarship to excavate at the impressive site of the Agora in Athens. She shares an exciting report on her fieldwork.
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ISAW Announces Graduate Conference: Itinerancy and Agency across the Ancient World
by Soraya Garcia | 10/25/2024
The ISAW Student Council invites submissions for the inaugural session of a graduate conference ‘Itinerancy and Agency across the Ancient World.’ This conference is to be held in March 2025.
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