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Marina Rustow awarded Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for ‘astonishing’ book on Cairo’s ‘Lost Archive’
Feb. 9, 2022

Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, professor of Near Eastern studies and history, has been awarded the 2022 Haskins Medal by the Medieval Academy of America for her book “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.

New Publication by Anthony Grafton
Jan. 26, 2021

Information: A Historical Companion, new volume co-edited by Anthony Grafton, has been published by Princeton University Press.

This collaborative volume traces the evolution of human approaches to gathering, storing and processing information…

New Publication by Anthony Grafton
Jan. 18, 2021

Impagination: Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication, an interdisciplinary volume on codicology, philology and material culture co-edited by Anthony Grafton, has been published by De Gruyter publishing.

MARBAS receives NEH funding
Dec. 20, 2020

Marina Rustow, a founding member of MARBAS, successfully applied for $150,000 from the NEH Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities program on behalf of MARBAS. Of 81 submitted proposals, MARBAS is one of only 5 projects to receive funding.