Leila Hudson to Receive Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

In fall 2008 Dr. Leila Hudson will receive a new title: Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies! Congratulations! One of the highlights of her tenure package was her new book publication: Transforming Damascus: Space and Modernity in an Islamic City, I.B. Tauris, January 2008. Leila holds courtesy appointments in the History and Anthropology Departments as well.

Professor Adel Gamal Receives Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant

Professor Adel Gamal was recently awarded his third Fulbright-Hays award for study in Turkey and Egypt this summer.

Professor Kamran Talattof Receives Persian Textbook Grant

Professor Kamran Talattof received funding for his third textbook, Modern Persian: Spoken and written from the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. This is a continuation of his first two volumes of the same title, published in 2005, Yale University Press.

NES Senior Receives College Honors

Congratulations go to Amanda Propst for her spring 2008 Social and Behavioral Sciences Oustanding Senior Award. More to come...

NES TA Receives College Award for Teaching

Coming soon.. 

Professor Richard Wilkinson Nominated for Regents' Award

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Excerpt from Lo Que Pasa: Wilkinson, a professor in the departments of classics and Near Eastern Studies, is internationally renowned for his eight popular books on Egyptology, which have been translated into 19 languages. He also is famous for his leadership of the UA Egyptian Expedition and his excavations in the Valley of the Kings, most notably of the mortuary temple of the 12th century B.C.E. Queen Tausert, one of the few Egyptian queens who ruled Egypt as pharaoh.

Wilkinson's numerous grants from institutions such as the Amarna Foundation, the American Research Center in Egypt and the Petty Foundation, along with his hugely successful books on Egypt, his 33 trend-setting articles and his consultancy to the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, have made him one of the 30 most important Egyptologists in the history of his field, according to a recent online survey.

His work on ancient hieroglyphs, "Reading Egyptian Art," was selected by the journal Antiquity as its Archaeology Book of the Year.

"People like Richard Wilkinson contribute to the progress of knowledge in the best sense of the term," said Greek archaeologist Nanno Marinatos. "His work in Egyptian iconography, religion and symbolism is a landmark in the history of Egyptian research. Most Egyptologists are art historians, archaeologists or textual scholars. Richard Wilkinson is all three."

NOTE: Dr. Wilkinson will teach NES 400/500- The History of Egyptology this Fall 2008, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

He will also teach NES 451A- Ancient Egypt: Culture and Language Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-6:15 p.m.