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NELC is pleased to welcome Tsolin Nalbantian as our Winter 2019 Dumanian Visiting Professor.

NELC Professor Orit Bashkin wins prestigious book award

Prof. Davis's lecture, "'She Can't Be Kept Locked Up': The Forgotten Women of Medieval Persian Poetry," can be viewed on the NELC website and our YouTube channel.

Of all the books published in English each year, roughly 3 to 4 percent are translations and, of those, roughly 27 to 30 percent are by women. For this event, a lineup of writers, translators, and editors will read poetry and prose from this often overlooked, always exciting, niche and then discuss the biases affecting translations published in the United States.

The Oriental Institute Oral History Project recently conducted an interview with Dr. Janet H. Johnson, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology.

The Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago announced that Orit Bashkin in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department is one of the five professors receiving research funding of $32,000 each on July 1, 2018, to advance their work in specific humanities field.

Nadine Moeller was awarded the prestigious Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Heshmat Moayyad, who established the Persian program at UChicago, passed away on June 25 at the age of 90

Prof. James Osborne discusses monuments with W. J. T. Mitchell.

Four NELC and CMES students won awards at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) at Tucson.

Hervé Reculeau, Assistant Professor of Assyriology, discusses his interdisciplinary project,“Coping with Changing Climates in Early Antiquity: Comparative Approaches between Empiricism and Theory.” 

Fred Donner has been recognized by the University of Chicago with the Peter B. Ritzma Professorship.

Hoda Katebi's (BA 2016) activism and blogging is profiled in Mother Jones Magazine. 

Esra Tasdelen (PhD 2014) is Assistant Professor of Arabic and MENA Studies at North Central College. 

Nükhet Varlık (PhD, NELC, 2008), now Associate Professor at Rutgers University, Newark, has won several prizes for her book, Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600

Nicholas Posegay, a BA/MA student in NELC and CMES, was one of 36 US students who received the prestigious scholarship to study at Cambridge. 

Christopher Markiewicz (PhD, NELC 2015) was awarded the  Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award from the Middle East Studies Association