Tag: Peter Machinist

  • Campus & Community

    Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, was spread upon the records. Professor Heinrichs served as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam, for which he himself wrote over fifty…

  • Campus & Community

    Frank Moore Cross

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Frank Moore Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Cross was well-known for his scholarship on the Dead Seas Scrolls and he…

  • Nation & World

    New meaning in the familiar

    Harvard Divinity School professor Peter Machinist encouraged students to alter their perspectives on education and life through defamiliarization.

  • Campus & Community

    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.