When I spent the fall 2016 semester at the Institute, working on
the impact of unofficial elite networks upon twentieth-century
internationalism, I welcomed the opportunity to explore materials
in the Institute's Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives...
On November 9, 2018, Israel Finkelstein, Jacob Alkow Professor
of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel
Aviv University, gave a public lecture on "Jerusalem in Biblical
Times: Comments on the Archaeology and History ca. 1350...
On October 26, 2018, Myles W.
Jackson, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, gave
his first IAS public lecture on "Genes, Patents, and Race: The
History of Science as a Bridge Between Disciplines."
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has prepared for publication and
introduced Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism
in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public
Library, Arabic...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has authored Traditional Yemeni
Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal
Library (UCOPress...
My work in the history of science probes the porous boundaries
between science and culture over the past two centuries. Much of it
gestures toward the role of history in public policy. I am
interested in having the historian at the table while a...
Forough Publishing has published a new Persian edition of
Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of
Antonio Rinaldeschi by Giles
Constable, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical
Studies, and William J.
Connell, former...
The emergence of Judaism is closely intertwined with the
emergence of Samaritanism. Both are heirs of ancient Israelite
traditions, and the predecessors of both shared the same religious
and literary culture. Until the second century B.C.E., this...
Western—European and North American—historiography generally
portrays the years between the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the
Congress of Vienna in 1815 as having given birth to the modern
world—a republican world founded on rational discourse and...
In his award-winning novel Life of Pi, published in 2001, the
French-Canadian writer Yann Martel relates the fantastic adventure
of a boy from India who survives a shipwreck and spends 227 days in
the Pacific Ocean, sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal...
