An internationally recognized expert on the history, art, and archaeology of Afghanistan, Nancy hatch Dupree has dedicated a lifetime to documenting and preserving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage.
August 2005 SUMMARY CURRICULUM CITAE NEME: Nancy Hatch Dupree (widow of Louis Dupree) ADDRESS: UPO Box 1084 , Peshawar Pakistan Tel: 0092-91-5704392/5704392/5702030; FAX:0092-91-840471 E-mail: aric@brain.net.pk EDUCATION: BA: Barnard college, New York , USA , 1961 MA: Chinese, Colombia University , USA ,1961 PHD: Hon., Williams College , USA , 2003 RESSIDENCE ABROAD: 1928-1940 Travancore, now Kerala, south India 1928-1947 Mexico 1928-1949 Costa Rica 1962-1978 Afghanistan 1989-present Pakistan / Afghanistan PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1989- Present Director; senior consultant ARIC ACBAR Resource and Information Centre (Agency coordinating Body for Afghan Relief) 1995-present Columnist, Afghanistan Nytt , Sweden 1993-2002 Vice- Chair SPACH (Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage) 1989 Lecturer Department Anthropology, University of north Carolina / Chapel Hill and Center for Islamic and Arabian Studies, Duke University 1949-1989 Consultant to UNESCO, UNDP, Ford Foundation, World Bank (in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ), India , Pakistan ) - BBC/TV; American Universities field staff film series (5 ethnographic films on Afghanistan , 1 on women); video on afghan architecture, 1880-1928) Grants: 1988-1989 (with L. Dupree) Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant to Afghanistan 1987 (with L. Dupree) Duke University Research Council Grant, to continue afghan refugees studies. 1984 (with L. Dupree) Ford Foundation, research on afghan refugees in Pakistan .
AWARDS: 1987 Outstanding achievement award, society of woman Geographers, new York Bronze medal for work with afghan refugees in Pakistan , international rescue committee, New York REPORTS FOR DEVELOPMENT/ ASSISTANCE AGENCIES Ford foundation; world Bank; international rescue committee; Swedish committee for Afghanistan; UNDP/ UNIFEM; Bernard van leer foundation; the Hague; UNOCHA; OSGAP( office of the UN secretary General’s personal representative in Afghanistan and Pakistan on cultural Heritage); ministry of justice; the Hague PUBLICATIONS: 5 guide books on Afghanistan; ca.800 articles, reviews , encyclopedia en tries chapters in books , and monographs, on various afghan subjects, including afghan history, cultural, heritage, ethnography, archaeology, literature, folklore, education, sports, libraries, environment, constitutions, women, women and law, women and agriculture