Congratulations to ISAW graduate students Allyson Blanck and Manolis Mavromatis for receiving an award from the Scholars Program of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA ..read more

The International Academy of the History of Sciences recently announced that one of the two winners of the 2023 Young Historians Prize is Claire Bubb, ISAW’s Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science ..read more

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII: The Greek and Roman Pottery, by Antonis Kotsonas ..read more

ISAW is delighted to announce that the proceedings of ‘Material Worlds: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contacts and Exchange in the Ancient Near East’, edited by Arnulf Hausleiter, was published by Archaeopress Archaeology in December 2023. The workshop was originally held at ISAW on 7th March 2016, with contributions delivered by 11 leading experts in their respective fields ..read more

The C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee recently announced that one of the three winners of this year's Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit is Claire Bubb, ISAW's Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the Society ..read more

On Friday, 3 November 2023, ISAW released version 3.2 of Pleiades Datasets, a free, open, and platform-neutral collection of spatial, historical, archaeological, and bibliographic information about 40,418 ancient places and spaces derived from the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places ..read more

The ISAW Student Council invites submissions for the inaugural session of a graduate conference series ‘I Saw the Future of the Past.’ This first conference, to be held in March 2024, is titled ‘Encountering the Past: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Ancient World ..read more

Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations. Prof. D.T. Potts brings together history, archaeology, and social anthropology to provide an overview of what we can know about the kith and kinship ties in Iran, from prehistory to Elamite, Achaemenid, and Sasanian times ..read more

ISAW exhibitions is excited to announce our upcoming Fall exhibition, Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq, opening November 8, 2023. Through the Lens explores the cultural and political exploitation of Iraq’s history through the eyes of nineteenth century archaeologists, twentieth century photographers, and contemporary artists ..read more

Expanding the Ancient World: K-12, a professional development program for K-12 teachers, is starting its second year, and we are excited to announce the fall schedule of events. These free events will take place on zoom, and registration is required. CTLE hours are available for New York State educators. We hope you can join us ..read more