School of Historical Studies

IAS News

Aaron Butts Named Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Early Christian Studies

February 24, 2022

Aaron Michael Butts, past Member (2019–20) and Visitor (2020–21) in the School of Historical Studies, has been named Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Early Christian Studies at his home institution, The Catholic University of America, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures.

Historical Studies

“The massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day was an affair between neighbors”

An interview with Jérémie Foa

Historian Jérémie Foa offers a very unique view of the 1572 massacres in his work entitled Tous ceux qui tombent: visages du massacre de la Saint–Barthélemy [All that fall: faces of the St. Bartholomew's day massacre]. He exhumes the “small lives” that were taken by reconstituting history in minute detail and honoring the names of the anonymous victims.

Historical Studies

The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone

A book by Alison Locke Perchuk

Alison Locke Perchuk, past Member in the School of Historical Studies (2018-19), has authored the first interdisciplinary account of the Monastery of St. Elijah, built circa 1122-26 near Rome. It includes archaeological and historical readings of the monastery’s architecture, frescoes, and sculpture, with an eye toward epigraphy, liturgy, theology, memory, and landscape.

Opinion

Marbles United, not Marbles Returned

March 31, 2021

By Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies:

"The fragments of the Parthenon sculptures that are exhibited in the British Museum have made headlines again, after an interview with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in...

MIT News

Climate Linked to Rise and Fall of Medieval Nomadic Empires

December 11, 2020

"Tree growth rings and ice cores illuminate the climatic conditions of times gone by. When combined with historical records and documents, climate data can also shed light on important events in human history — including the activities of nomadic...

IAS News

Members Elected to the British Academy

September 03, 2020

Khaled Fahmy, incoming Member in the School of Historical Studies, and Kathleen Coleman, Member (2017–18) in the School, have been elected to the British Academy as Corresponding Fellows.

The British Academy is a fellowship of approximately 1,400...