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Shira Telushkin joins ICS as new Business Manager
We are thrilled to welcome Shira Telushkin who has joined the ICS team as our new Business Manager! Shira brings a wealth of experience and talent to our community. She is a writer, producer, and community builder based in Brooklyn. Her writing on religion, art, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The…
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Sarah Madole Lewis Joins ICS Board of Directors
The ICS Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Sarah Madole Lewis joined the Board of Directors in November 2024. Professor Madole Lewis is an Associate Professor of Art History at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City. With a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, her…
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Lee Jefferson joins ICS Board of Directors
The ICS Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Lee Jefferson will join the Board of Directors as of November 2024. Professor Jefferson is the Nelson D. and Mary McDowell Rodes Associate Professor of Religion at Center College in Danville, KY. With a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt, his primary area of interest is the…
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Congratulations to new ICS Executive Officers!
At the annual meeting of the ICS Board of Directors on October 6, the following slate of Officers was elected for a three year term: Congratulations to the new Executive Committee and many thanks to outgoing President Robin Jensen and Clerk Jessica Dello Russo for their years of service!
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In Memoriam: Patrick H. Alexander
The International Catacomb Society mourns the loss of Patrick H. Alexander, former Society Board member and long-time friend. Patrick was a former director and acquisitions editor for Penn State Press and passionate about the intersection of archeology, art history, and religious studies. Previously, Patrick had been a senior editor at Brill, Walter de Gruyter,…
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Introducing the Shohet Scholars for 2024-2025
International Catacomb Society Shohet Fellowship Competition 2024-2025 PRESS RELEASE: 3 May 2024 The International Catacomb Society is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Estelle Brettman Shohet Competition: Davide Tanasi (Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of History, Institute for Digital Exploration, University of South Florida) and David Cardona (Senior Curator, Heritage Malta), for…
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Review: Dinamiche Insediative nel Territorio di Canicattini Bagni e nel Bacino di Alimentazione del Torrente Cavadonna (Siracusa) tra Antichita’ e Medioevo (2016)
Review of Santino Alessandro Cugno. Dinamiche Insediative nel Territorio di Canicattini Bagni e nel Bacino di Alimentazione del Torrente Cavadonna (Siracusa) tra Antichita’ e Medioevo. BAR International Series n. 2802, 2016.
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In Memoriam: A. Thomas Kraabel (1934-2016)
ICS marks the passing on 2 November 2016 of Professor A. Thomas Kraabel, who collaborated with ICS founder Estelle S. Brettman on the organization of the international panel “Diaspora Judaism Under the Roman Empire: Recent Archaeological Evidence,” at the American Institute of Archaeology’s Annual Conference in Boston in 1979. Invited panel speakers were Prof.…
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In Memoriam: Former ICS Director Nitza Rosovsky (1934-2023)
The International Catacomb Society remembers with affection and gratitude Harvard Semitic Museum curator Nitza Rosovsky, a former ICS director. Mrs. Rosovsky passed away in Cambridge, MA on 29 December 2023. Her obituary is here. In addition to arranging for ICS lectures in the newly inaugurated Rosovsky Hall at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, Mrs. Rosovsky was…
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Jessica Dello Russo interviewed for Archaeology Magazine article on Jewish Catacombs of Rome
Archaeologist Jessica Dello Russo replies to journalist’s questions about the Jews of Ancient Rome and their burial practices, including the structural nature, chronology, and possible origins of the catacombs of Rome.