Graduate Students 2009-2010
Zoë Misiewicz
Email: zmm204@nyu.edu
Zoë Misiewicz received her BSc in
Mathematics and Classics from the University of Toronto in 2006,
and received her MA in Classics, also from Toronto, in 2008.
Unsurprisingly, her research interests lie in the area of
ancient mathematics. Her MA research focused on Archimedes and
his concept of mathematical proof. At ISAW, she will expand her
research beyond Greek mathematics, looking at the interaction
between Greek and Near Eastern mathematical ideas.
Martin Reznick
Email: mir210@nyu.edu
Martin
Reznick received his BAs in both History and Classics from
Columbia University in 2000. His primary interests lay in such
diverse areas as ascetic traditions from Late Antiquity through
the Middle Ages, the institutional history of the early Catholic
church, and the historiography of the Anglo-Norman empire in the
11th-12th centuries. While pursuing other career goals he earned
an MA in Politics from New York University in 2004, where he
specialized in quantitative political methodology, especially
noncooperative game theory and econometrics. Martin comes to
ISAW to explore the political economy of Roman Egypt by
combining rational choice models with the techniques of
traditional historical research. By analyzing microcosmic
cross-sections of Egypt, Martin hopes to shed light on questions
relevant both to ancient studies and to the political economy of
contemporary developing nations.
Mehrnoush Soroush
Email: ms5600@nyu.edu
Mehrnoush Soroush Received her MA in Architecture from the
University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts. In her thesis and
professional experiences, she has focused on the conservation of
historic sites and monuments, especially, historic hydraulic
sites of Shushtar (inscribed as the 10th world heritage site of
Iran in 2009). Turning her focus from the practice of
conservation to the preconditions of conservation, she began
researching the traditional water management of Shushtar, and
then extended her research to other parts of Iran. She intends
to continue her studies on the traditional know-how of water
management as a PhD student at ISAW.
