Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education that cultivates comparative and connective investigations of the ancient world

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

from the western Mediterranean

Ancient Near East

The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , ancient Egypt, ancient Iran The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia...

to China. It is a discrete entity within New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

, independent of any other school or department of the university, with its own endowment and its own board of trustees. ISAW was founded in 2006 with funding from the Leon Levy Foundation, and is housed in separate facilities on East 84th Street in Manhattan. The Director of ISAW is Roger Bagnall. ISAW faculty conduct historical, archaeological, socio-cultural and linguistics research and offer doctoral and postdoctoral programs.

Exhibitions

ISAW organizes exhibitions. The first of these is "Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani", which was exhibited in New York in the spring of 2008, went on tour, and generated a book. The second is The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 – 3500 BC, November 11, 2009 – April 25, 2010. “Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics”, an exhibit of Babylonian mathematics

Babylonian mathematics

Babylonian mathematics refers to any mathematics of the people of Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. Babylonian mathematical texts are plentiful and well edited...

through cuneiform

Cuneiform

Cuneiform can refer to:*Cuneiform script, an ancient writing system originating in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC*Cuneiform , three bones in the human foot*Cuneiform Records, a music record label...

tablets (including Plimpton 322

Plimpton 322

Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, notable as containing an example of Babylonian mathematics. It has number 322 in the G.A. Plimpton Collection at Columbia University...

) runs from November 12–December 17, 2010

Library

A key component of the mission of ISAW is to develop a working library covering the full range of relevant fields. As well as providing coverage across a wide range of subjects, the library aims to develop strengths in areas otherwise currently poorly represented in New York area libraries. ISAW also aims to play an active role in developing and providing access to electronic resources for the ancient world. As a central feature of this effort, the Ancient World Digital Library will formulate, fund, and sustain a digital collection of the most important research materials for the use of the general scholarly community. It will constitute a collection of digital material of the highest quality and usefulness to scholars working within the cross-boundary, interdisciplinary, synchronic, and diachronic fields of study within ISAW’s mandate. The AWDL will function in close cooperation with other ISAW initiatives such as Backstop (ISAW’s project to facilitate the preservation and long-term maintenance of born-digital scholarly works for ancient studies), a planned Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB), and an initiative to identify, curate and create high quality MARC records for a broad range of scholarly material digitized elsewhere.

Online Resources

Ancient World Digital Library Book Viewer

Ancient World Image Bank

Ancient World Online

Exhibitions

ISAW Papers

Papyri.info

Planet Atlantides

Pleiades

Social Media

Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Lorenzo d'Alfonso
Roger Bagnall
Roderick B. Campbell
Alexander Jones
Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Sören Stark
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Sebastian Heath
Ellen Morris
Nicola Aravecchia

Staff

Diane Bennett
Elizabeth Bulls
Garfield Caleb
Desiree Carrasquillo
Hugh Cayless
Jennifer Chi
Peter D. De Staebler
Tom Elliott
Sean Gillies
Irene Gelbord
Dawn Gross
Charles E. Jones
Julienne Kim
Anna Kogan
Mike Kojasevic
Kathryn Lawson
Kathy McEwan
Sara Roemer
Jessica Shapiro
Whitney Steen
Tiffany Wall
Christopher Warner

Visiting Research Scholars

2011-2012
Daniel Caner
Alexander Dale
George Hatke
Sarah Laursen
Fiona Kidd
Justin Leidwanger
Rita Lucarelli
Michael Penn
Emmanuelle Raga

2010-2011
Jonathan Ben-Dov
Gilles Bransbourg
Jacco Dieleman
Günter Dreyer
Bryan K. Hanks
Lidewijde de Jong
Judith A. Lerner
Annalisa Marzano
Mathieu Ossendrijver
Seth L. Sanders
Karen Sonik
Joan Goodnick Westenholz

External links

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