Mummified Baboons Shine New Light on the Lost Land of Punt
Professor Nathaniel Dominy finds evidence of ancient Egyptian trade routes.
[more]Professor Nathaniel Dominy finds evidence of ancient Egyptian trade routes.
[more]Dale Eickelman is honored and recognized for his exceptional service to the field of Middle East Studies. Over 18 years at NYU, 27 at Dartmouth College, and continuing past his retirement in 2016, he has worked to build the intellectual infrastructure of interdisciplinary Middle East Studies: He co-founded and served for six years on a joint committee of the ACLS/SSRC for comparative study of Muslim societies in the 1980s. He also served as external reviewer for Middle East Studies centers and on anthropology and other program panels for NEH, Fulbright, and SSRC.
[more]Maron Greenleaf has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
[more]Archaeologists speculate that the site was visited by a Spanish expedition in 1601.
[more]Dartmouth professor, Sienna Craig, in collaboration with anthropologists from several other institutions was awarded a competitive Social Science Research Council (SSR) grant to support the study of the COVID-19 pandemic experience among Himalayan New Yorkers. This project addresses the rapidly unfolding health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic among communities of Himalayan New Yorkers who live and work at the epicenter of the current outbreak.
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