Friday, September 15th, 2006
In her first book, Sumaiya Hamdani, director of Islamic Studies and associate professor of history, analyzes the writings of the revolutionary 10th-century Muslim theologian and jurist Qadi al-Nu’man. The book is called Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood: Qadi al-Nu’man and the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy and is published by the Institute [...]
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
The department welcomed several new faculty in Fall 2006. Professor Marty Sherwin came to GMU from Tufts University where he was . Professor Sherwin recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of J. Robert Openheimer, American Prometheus: The Tiumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Professor Sherwin is teaching a course in “Camera/Cold War: [...]
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Dan Cohen was one of five recipients of an American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship for 2006-7, the first year of the competition. His project “A Scholarly Web Browser as a Gateway into the Digital Humanities” joins four other projects, including efforts involving GPS, corpus digitization, map mashups, and text/data mining.