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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.

Upcoming Events

Yusuf Umrethwala | Scribes of Power: Analyzing the role and influence of scribes in Fatimid Cairo through a draft petition from the Cairo Geniza

Comparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts.

Location
Scheide Caldwell 209
Yunxiao Xiao | Written on Paper, Reformatted from Bamboo: The Origins and Evolution of Early Medieval Chinese Book Design

MARBAS in collaboration with the Princeton University Library is excited to announce the Fall 2023 'PUL&MARBAS present' event series, which explores Princeton’s vast holdings of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

Location
Firestone Library | Floor C | Special Collections
Michael Suarez | Surfacing the Slave Ship Brooks: New Evidence from the Archive

MARBAS in collaboration with the Princeton University Library is excited to announce the Fall 2023 'PUL&MARBAS present' event series, which explores Princeton’s vast holdings of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

Location
Firestone Library | Floor C | Special Collections