Department News
NES senior concentrator Ethan Kahn has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Kahn previously was a recipient of the 2018-2019 Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and named a 2022 Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative graduate scholar. The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded in 1776 and the oldest of all national honorary scholastic societies…
Marina Rustow, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History, has been granted funding by the University’s Schmidt DataX Fund for her “Handwritten Text Recognition for the Princeton Geniza Project (HTR4PGP).” The…
Sixth-year Ph.D. student Samin Rashidbeigi participated in Princeton Research Day 2022 and was awarded a prize for Outstanding Presentation. Her video, The Making of the Modern Donor, was featured at the PRD2022 Mainstage event held May 5 in Frist, where she received her award from Acting Dean of the Graduate School Cole. M. Crittenden…