Faculty Honors & News
The Department of Art History and Archaeology (AHAR) has been awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation for the project Black Mediterranean/ Mediterraneo Nero - Artistic Encounters and Counter-narratives/ Incontri artistici e contronarrazioni, as part of the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative.
Khatchig’s 2021 book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 has received the Syrian Studies Association ‘Honourable Mention 2021.’ As the judging committee wrote: "Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the Armenian resistance network. This book is one great step in recovering that past."
Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi (MESAAS)
Al-Musawi was announced the winner of 2022 King Faisal International Prize. He was awarded the prize for Arabic Language and Literature jointly with Suzanne Stetkevych, of Georgetown University.
Hallaq was elected an Honorary Member to the The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) in December 2021.
Hallaq’s life and work have been featured on Aljazeera’s program Al-Muqabalah, in two fifty-minute episodes, which aired on December 12 and December 19.
Ciucci was awarded the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grants. These grants are designed to provide additional financial support to junior faculty to help complete projects as they move toward tenure.
Hochberg was interviewed by Fulya Pinar on New Books Networks, where she discussed her newest book, Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future.