Newsletter 24 Spring 2019

Cover Photo: ISAW’s Leon Levy Director Alexander Jones toasting ISAW’s 2019 graduates. ©NYU Photo Bureau: Sorel ISAW Newsletter 24, Spring 2019, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity

• Commencement 2019
• Maria Americo
• Zoë Misiewicz
• Anthony SooHoo

• Community News
• ISAW Director Alexander Jones Receives 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
• ISAW Doctoral Student Shujing Wang Receives APS Grant
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
• ISAW Faculty Members Claire Bubb and Sebastian Heath Receive Promotions
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
• Three New Staff Members
  Diane W. Bennett, Associate Director for Administration
• ISAW Alumna Irene Soto Marin to Lead New Research Project at University of Basel
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
• Roderick Campbell’s Research on Animal Sacrifice in Early China Featured in Scientific American
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
  
• Digital Central Asian Archaeology Library
  David M. Ratzan, Head, ISAW Library
• Libraries Scholars
  David M. Ratzan, Head, ISAW Library

• Conferences
• Nessana Papyri
  Workshop organized by Robert Hoyland (ISAW), Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History
• Materia III: New Approaches to Material Text in the Ancient World
  Conference organized by Joseph Howley (Columbia University), Stephanie Frampton (MIT), and David M. Ratzan (ISAW)
• Hunter - Herder - Horsemen: The Dawn of Monumental Landscapes
  Workshop organized by Ursula Brosseder (ISAW Visiting Research Scholar)

• Exhibitions
• A Wonder to Behold: The Power of Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate
  Rachel Herschman, Curatorial Assistant