Harold W. Forsyth, Ambassador of Peru has bestowed a Decoration of the Order “To Merit for Distinguished Services” in the Degree of “Great Cross”, upon Dr. Thomas B.F. Cummins Monday, December 12th, 2011.

When the sky turned black 
Ken Burns discusses new film about ’30s storms that created Dust Bowl 
by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette Staff Writer
photo by Kris Snibbe, Harvard Gazette Staff Photographer

Art historian John Max Rosenfield received this year’s Charles Lang Freer Medal in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the field of Asian art history. Rosenfield, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art, Emeritus, at Harvard University, became the thirteenth recipient of the award on April 12, 2012.

Smithsonian News Release

Gülru Necipoğlu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture and Supplements to Muqarnas since 1993.

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