The School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced
Study has received a $315,000 grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities to support the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition
initiative, led by Sabine
Schmidtke, Professor in the School...
On March 14, 2018, Yve-Alain Bois,
Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was honored with the
distinguished title of Chun-tu Hsueh Chair Professor at Nanjing
University. Recognized for his expertise in the study of
20th-century European and...
The Onassis Cultural Center New York has won the Global Fine Art
Awards’ 2017 Youniversal Award, the audience award determined by
popular vote. The exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient
Greece, 700 B.C.—200 A.D., co-curated by Angelos
Chaniotis...
In a ceremony held at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
on March 7, 2018, Angelos
Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies,
received the title of Doctor honoris causa in recognition of his
contribution to the study of the...
Avishai Margalit,
former Professor in the School of Historical Studies, reviews
Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy
(And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports) by David
Papineau and What We Think About When We Think...
Previously classified documents from the U.K. Foreign Office
revealed that David Floyd, a former Daily Telegraph
reporter and British diplomat, acted as a Soviet agent. Jonathan
Haslam, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical
Studies...
Yitzhak Hen, Member
(2012–13) in the School of Historical Studies, has been appointed
as Director of Hebrew University's Israel Institute for Advanced
Studies. Beginning in June 2018, Hen will head the IIAS, a national
institution devoted to...
Columba Stewart, former Member in the School of Historical
Studies, was accompanied by 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl on his mission
to save historic texts from the destruction of ISIS for a report to
be broadcast on Sunday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Foreign Affair's G. John Ikenberry reviews Professor
Emeritus Jonathan Israel's The
Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World,
1775–1848, writing, "This book’s wide-angle account of the
nineteenth-century spread of revolutionary...
Glen Bowersock, Professor
Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has been designated
an Honorary Life Fellow of the American Numismatic Society. The American Numismatic
Society is dedicated to the study and public appreciation of
coins...