ISAW Professor Dan Potts Awarded 2024 ASOR Frank Moore Cross Award

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. 

The award is presented to the author/editor of the most substantial volume(s) related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Primary consideration will be given to historical, epigraphic, textual, and comparative literary studies; or to works that advance and/or evaluate new methodological approaches to the literary record(s). This work must be the result of original research published during the past two years (one award is given annually).

Awarded to Karen Radner (Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Ancient History of the Near and Middle East, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Nadine Moeller (Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Yale University), and Daniel T. Potts (Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, ISAW, New York University), for editing the five-volume The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, from Oxford University Press.

Dan Potts contributed to the editing process of The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volumes I, II, III, IV, and V, as well as one chapter in Vol. V. With over 70 chapters by a diverse set of authors based in Europe, Japan, the Middle East and the United States, the Oxford History offers readers a fresh perspective on social, political, and cultural development in the ancient Near East, superseding the long-since outdated Cambridge Ancient History.

For more information on the series visit: https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/dan-potts-co-edits-oxford-history-of-the-ancient-near-east