NELC majors Gabriel Davis and Olivia Rosenzweig were awarded NELC’s Undergraduate Prize for Service to the Department, and NELC major Zachary Spitz was awarded the Justin Palmer Prize for his BA Thesis.
Oya Topcuoglu (PhD 2016) is now a lecturer at Northwestern University, and her class “We Are What We Eat: Turkish Food Culture And Cuisine" was featured in a recent Northwestern Publication.
In recognition of their significant contributions to the field, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and Middle East Medievalists (MEM) recently honored NELC faculty members Donald Whitcomb and Orit Bashkin, as well as NELC alumnus Ahmet Tunç Şen, MA’10, PhD’16.
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.
Kay Heikkinen will appear on a panel to read poetry and prose from women in translation, and 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.
Hervé Reculeau, Assistant Professor of Assyriology, discusses his interdisciplinary project,“Coping with Changing Climates in Early Antiquity: Comparative Approaches between Empiricism and Theory.”
Nükhet Varlık (PhD 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
