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ISAW Congratulates 2020 and 2021 PhD Graduates
by Marc LeBlanc | 05/18/2021
Congratulations to ISAW's 2020 and 2021 PhD graduates! We are extremely proud of the way that Andrea Trameri, Shujing Wang, and Fanghan Wang overcame the challenges of the past 15 months and produced excellent dissertations as a capstone to their doctoral work at ISAW.
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Research Associate Karen Rubinson presented the inaugural ARISC President's Distinguished Lecture on March 1, 2021.
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 03/12/2021
Research Associate Karen Rubinson presented the inaugural ARISC President's Distinguished Lecture on March 1, 2021.
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ISAW Alumna, Irene Soto Marín, Interviewed by "The Daily Beast"
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 03/09/2021
The article, "Should You Drop Everything and Hunt for Treasure in Europe?," by ISAW affiliate Candida Moss discusses the historical value of coins.
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Antonis Kotsonas receives CHOICE Book Award
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 02/17/2021
Antonis Kotsonas, Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology, recently published the following two-volume work: Lemos, I.S. and A. Kotsonas (eds) 2020. A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
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Visiting Research Scholar Spotlight: Mitra Panahipour
by Mitra Panahipour | 01/04/2021
Mitra Panahipour uses a multidisciplinary approach by combining remote sensing and geospatial techniques, including the application of historical and current multispectral satellite data with archaeological fieldwork to reconstruct the past landscape and its anthropogenic and natural elements across the Deh Luran archaeological landscape in western Iran.
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Roger Bagnall to give Fourteenth Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture at Yale University
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 11/10/2020
Roger S. Bagnall (Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director Emeritus, ISAW) was recently invited to give the Fourteenth Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture. The talk is titled, "The Other Caravan Cities: Transport, Capital, and Inequality in the Egyptian Oases."
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VISITING RESEARCH SCHOLAR SPOTLIGHT: JEREMY SIMMONS
by Jeremey Simmons | 11/03/2020
Humans first sailed regularly upon the Indian Ocean roughly 5,000 years ago. They continued to brave the waves over millennia through coastal skips and open sailing with the monsoon winds. By the early centuries of the Common Era, the ocean supported a host of human activity, including individuals from the eastern Mediterranean, Arabian Peninsula, and Indian subcontinent. Despite its perils, maritime travel proved faster and more cost-effective than equivalent overland routes—it was a major contributor to interregional integration in the premodern world.
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Visiting Research Scholar Spotlight: Sarah Adcock
by sa6270@nyu.edu | 10/27/2020
As 2020 draws to a close and the global coronavirus pandemic continues to make news around the world, we are bombarded by predictions of collapse in various permutations. Among archaeologists, historians, and scholars of the ancient world more broadly, recent years have seen a surging interest in the study of societal collapse. This growing scholarly interest coincides with contemporary preoccupations with geopolitical uncertainty, climate crisis, mass extinction, and global disease. In essence, these concerns center on the end of the world as we know it.
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ISAW's First Virtual Exhibition Coming Soon!
by reh390@nyu.edu | 10/21/2020
We are pleased to announce that ISAW will be launching its first virtual exhibition this coming February, The Empire's Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome. Presenting the life of the influential Roman doctor Galen (ca. 129–216/7 CE), this richly-illustrated, interactive online exhibition will contextualize the doctor’s biography within the ancient medical landscape as well as within his broader historical situation.
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