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Archive: September 2019 (2 Posts)

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

The Assyrians, Between the State and the Opposition

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Alda Benjamen is a Kluge Fellow, and was most recently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She studies the Modern Middle East and Iraqi history, focusing on minoritization and pluralism in bilingual communities, as well as identity, memory and cultural heritage, and women and gender issues. Her current project is titled Negotiating …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

September 2019 Arrivals at Kluge

Posted by: Michael Stratmoen

The Kluge Center welcomed a large group of new fellows into residence this September. Get to know them and the projects they will be working on. Gregory Afinogenov, a Kluge Fellow, arrived from Georgetown University. During his residency, Gregory will work on a project titled “Seated at the Right Hand: Russia and World Revolution, 1770-1830.” …