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Anh-Thu T. Ngo (PhD candidate) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Vietnam in Anthropology. fulbright.state.gov

Student Spotlight

Darryl Li
- Joint CMES
- PdD candidate, Social Anthropology Program
darrylli [at] fas.harvard.edu

About the image: In this graveyard in central Bosnia-Herzegovina, a Moroccan volunteer who came to fight in the 1992-1995 war there walks among the graves of his comrades, who are buried alongside locals from a nearby village. My dissertation focuses on Arab ex-fighters and aid workers who came to Bosnia in the name of defending a global Islamic community but then experienced racial, cultural, and doctrinal difference vis-a-vis Bosnian comrades, kin, and critics. Often portrayed as "extremists," these Arabs have been a target population in the U.S.-led "global war on terror," subjected to measures such as deportation to Guantanamo and other torture sites and indefinite detention within BiH itself. Therefore, I also draw upon my legal training to ethnographically explore how these individuals are swept up in a globalized counterinsurgency that has reconfigured traditional distinctions between wartime and peacetime, battlefield and homefront, sovereignty and empire.

Faculty Spotlight

Peter Der Manuelian
- Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University
- Archaeology Program

Peter Der Manuelian grew up locally but somehow escaped speaking with a Boston accent. He joined both the NELC and Anthropology Departments in 2010, after teaching Egyptology at Tufts University for ten years. He has also been on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, since 1987, and still holds the position of Giza Archives Project Director there. In addition to Giza, his Egyptian archaeological and epigraphic site work includes New Kingdom temples at Luxor (Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), and the Predynastic site of Naqada.

His primary research interests include ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary architecture, and the (icono)graphic nature of Egyptian language and culture in general. He has published on diverse topics and periods in Egyptian history, but currently focuses on the third millennium BC, and specifically on the famous Giza Necropolis, just west of modern Cairo. The Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition excavated major portions of the site between 1905 and 1947. Professor Manuelian's "Giza Archives Project" aims to collect and present online all past, present, and future archaeological activity at Giza (www.gizapyramids.org).

Interested in both ancient and modern graphic design-"publishing" in the widest sense of the word-he believes in bringing new technologies into his research and into the classroom. Among his current projects are the publication of elite Giza tombs west of the Great Pyramid, a biography of Harvard archaeologist George A. Reisner, and the development of electronic tools to aid in teaching Egyptian hieroglyphic grammar.

Research and Teaching Interests:
Ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, epigraphy, the development of mortuary architecture, the iconographic nature of Egyptian language and culture in general; the Giza Necropolis, and the application of digital technologies to research and teaching.

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