Tag: Kathleen M. Coleman

  • Arts & Culture

    Face to face with ancient Egyptians

    Realistic mummy portraits, on view at Harvard Art Museums, shed light on life, death in multicultural Roman era 2,000 years ago

    Three mummy portraits of bearded man wearing white tunic, woman wearing white tunic with purple sash, and woman wearing a purple tunic.
  • Campus & Community

    Ernst Badian

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 2, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. From fragmentary biographical information about many individuals, Professor Badian deduced political and institutional patterns that greatly deepened…

  • Campus & Community

    Calvert Ward Watkins

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 4, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Calvert Ward Watkins, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. A larger-than-life Indo-Europeanist, Professor Watkins’s scholarship, including contributions to the American Heritage Dictionary,…