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Professors Eckart Frahm and Nadine Moeller won two separate book awards at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Overseas Research
February 12, 2025
Professors Nadine Moeller and Eckart Frahm won two separate book awards at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Overseas Research(ASOR) last November. For the five volumes of the ‘The Oxford History...
Shawkat Toorawa, Blanshard Professor
September 12, 2024
Text by YaleNews Shawkat M. Toorawa, a world-renowned scholar and translator of extraordinary breadth — who explores classical, medieval, and modern Arabic literature, the literary dimensions of the Qur’an,...
Cuneiform tablet of food recipe. Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection
August 18, 2024
During the week of August 12, 2024 the BBC released a story by Veronique Greenwood featuring the Cuneiform tablets of food recipes housed at the Yale Babylonian Collection. The story was published under the title “...
Eckart Frahm, John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
March 21, 2024
Text by YaleNews Eckart Frahm, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Assyrian Empire, was recently appointed the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, effective immediately. He...
Four junior faculty members receive this year’s Poorvu Innovation Award
February 12, 2024
Text and photo by Yale News. Four Yale faculty members — Nana Osei Quarshie, Ian Turner, Erika Valdivieso, and Meryem Ezgi Yalçın — have been named recipients of the 2023–24 Poorvu Family Fund for Academic...