Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, will give a public talk on Friday, October 12. Drawing on her research and reading from her recent publication Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study...

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome is collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to provide open access to approximately 5,000 digitized Zaydi manuscripts from Yemen and neighboring countries that are held...

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute will host a workshop on Near Eastern Studies after Patricia Crone on Monday, June 4, 2018. Participants, including Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Joseph Witztum, former research...

The Institute for Advanced Study and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies have jointly organized the "Literary Genres and Their Changing Functions among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages" workshop. Participants...

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...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been elected for nomination as a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy. The Academy Ambrosiana, formed inside the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, is comprised of over 370...

Professor Sabine Schmidtke and Institute Trustees Lorraine Daston and Benedict Gross are among those newly elected.  Other elected members include David Hollinger, former Institute Trustee and Member (1977–78, 1999) in the School of Historical Studies. 

The Institute for Advanced Study and Hill Museum & Manuscript Library are partnering to provide open access to approximately 15,000 digitized Zaydi manuscripts from Yemen and neighboring countries. The three-year project will help support and make accessible the Zaydi handwritten heritage—a heritage that is on the verge of destruction in Yemen.
 

Brill Academic Publishers launched a new journal, Shii Studies Review, in collaboration with Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Hassan Ansari, Member in the School. Brill adds the peer-reviewed journal to its...

The School of Historical Studies has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to explore and elevate the understanding of Shii studies. The grant will support two research positions in the School of Historical Studies and create a themed annual conference and workshop aimed at leading scholars in the field, which will be led by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School.