ISAC Publications is pleased to announce that a monograph published last year in ISAC’s Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) series, An Armenian Futūḥ Narrative, recently won the the 2025 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies.

We are delighted to highlight the work of Archival Assistant Megan Sands, whose careful and sustained efforts have transformed access to the Antoin Sevruguin photographic collection in the ISAC Archives.

The ISAC Publications department announces that LAMINE 6. A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean, edited and translated by Thomas E. Burman, Nuria de Castilla, Seonyoung Kim, Sergio La Porta, Jeremy Pearson, and Alison M. Vacca, is now available for purchase and download.

The ISAC Annual Report 2024–2025 is now available. Readers can download a single PDF of the entire 2024–2025 Annual Report. Individual sections of the report are available online at the ISAC Annual Report 2024–2025 webpage: https://isac.uchicago.edu/about/annual-reports/24-25_Annual_Report.

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures has launched a new initiative, the ISAC Data Research Center, which brings together data science, AI and the humanities to transform how scholars study the ancient world.