Nancy Dupree
Nancy Dupree | |
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Born | Nancy Hatch October 3, 1927 |
Died | September 10, 2017 | (aged 89)
Resting place | Kabul, Afghanistan |
Nationality | American |
Education | Barnard College (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A.) |
Occupation | Administrator |
Title | Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University |
Successor | Position vacant |
Spouses |
Nancy Hatch Dupree (
Early life and education
Nancy Dupree was born as Nancy Hatch in
Hatch graduated from Barnard College in 1949. She then went to Columbia University to study Chinese.[3] She did her master's in Chinese Art at Columbia University, but her life was linked to southern Asia in an inexorable manner.
Career
First married to an American intelligence officer, Alan D. Wolfe, posted in Ceylon (present day
Dupree first arrived in Afghanistan in 1962 as a diplomat's wife.
After the
After the Coalition forces moved into Afghanistan in 2001, Nancy did not immediately move back. She and her colleagues were concerned for their own safety and that of ACBAR's collection, which by 1999 consisted of 7,739 titles written in
Part of ACKU's collections have been digitized in collaboration with the University of Arizona Libraries and are available online for global open access. When University of Arizona Librarian Atifa Rawan knew Nancy personally and her collections moved back to Kabul from Pershaw, Pakistan in 2005 by the invitation from Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. In 2006, Atifa Rawan and Yan Han met with Nancy to submit a grant proposal of digitizing all ACKU's collections for two major purposes: 1) universal open access and 2) digital preservation. In 2007, a NEH grant of $300,000 was funded to digitize 3,000 titles of ACKU's collection for open access and digital preservation. Nancy selected these 3,000 titles from ACKU's collection.[12][13] The grant project ended in 2011, and provided a great start for open access and digital preservation of related Afghan materials. Since 2011, more than 1.4 million pages of documents have been added. The Afghan Digital Repository is the world largest digital collections related to Afghanistan and its related regions, consisting of over 1.7 million pages of documents in Pashto, Persian and English.
Dupree divided her time between Afghanistan and her other home in North Carolina.[14]
Death
Dupree died after battling an unspecified illness in Kabul, Afghanistan, at the age of 89.[2][15] President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah offered their condolences. Ghani added that Nancy "considered Afghanistan her real home and willed to be buried in Kabul next to the tomb of her husband."[16] Former President Hamid Karzai said "Nancy Dupree, a loving daughter of Afghanistan, is no more with us. May God bless her soul." and "Afghanistan will keep her in affectionate memory."[17] A large mural of Dupree was painted on a wall in downtown Kabul in honor.[18]
Bibliography
- Dupree, Nancy Hatch; Kohzad, Ahmad Ali (1972). An Historical Guide to Kabul. Afghan Tourist Organization. ASIN B0006CCCLW.
- Dupree, Nancy Hatch; Dupree, Motamedi (1974). The National Museum of Afghanistan : an illustrated guide. The Afghan Tourist Organization. ASIN B000YZI8FK.
- Dupree, Nancy Hatch (1977). An Historical Guide to Afghanistan. Afghan Tourist Organization. ASIN B0006DXU30.
References
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Nancy Dupree died on September 10th". The Economist. 14 September 2017.
- ^ a b Mashal, Mujib (September 10, 2017). "Nancy Hatch Dupree, Scholar of Afghanistan, Is Dead at 89". The New York Times.
- ^ Bohlen, Celestine (July 9, 2002). "A Love Affair With Afghanistan Continues at 74; Her Guidebook Inspired a Play, And She Fights for a Nation's Soul". The New York Times.
- ^ Waldman, Amy (May 8, 2004). "A Chronicler of Afghan Culture, Now Its Loyal Guard". The New York Times.
- ^ The first guide to Bamiyan was published in French in 1934 by Joseph Hackin, director of the Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan, translated in German in 1939 (Paris, éditions d'art et d'histoire).
- ^ The Best American Magazine Writing 2015 by The American Society of Magazine Editors
- ^ Graham-Harrison, Emma (March 26, 2013). "From Kabul love affair to Afghanistan's first centre for study of its history". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "A librarian's labour of love for Afghanistan". Financial Times. 14 February 2009.
- ^ a b c Moustafa, Laila Hussein (Fall 2016). "From Peshawar to Kabul: Preserving Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage during Wartime". RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. 17 (2): 134–147.
- ^ Verini, James (23 February 2014). "Love and Ruin". The Atavist Magazine. The Atavist. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ Afroz, Nazes (1 December 2017). "The woman who set up Afghanistan's biggest cultural archive". The Caravan. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
- ^ Rawan & Han (2012). "Inter-institutional collaboration between the University of Arizona Libraries and the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University on preservation and digitization of a unique Afghan collection" (PDF).
- ^ "UA Preservation Project Afghanistan History Available to World". 2013.
- ^ "American Seeks to Preserve Storied Afghan Past". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. December 15, 2014.
- ^ "Nancy Dupree: Renowned US historian dies in Afghanistan". Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera Media Network. 10 September 2017. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ Kakar, Javed Hamim (10 September 2017). "Renowned archaeologist Nancy Dupree passes away in Kabul".
- ^ "Continue Nancy Dupree's legacy by supporting ACKU's programs in Afghanistan".
- ^ "T-Wall Mural of Nancy Dupree Portrays Her as a Hero".
Further reading
- Maley, William. (2013). Afghanistan as a cultural crossroads: Lessons from the writings of Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nancy Dupree. Asian Affairs, 44(2), 215.
- Moustafa, Laila Hussein. (2016). From Peshawar to Kabul: Preserving Afghanistan's cultural heritage during wartime. RBM: A Journal of Rare Book, Manuscripts, and Cultural History, 17(2), 134–147.
- Dupree, Nancy Hatch. (2002). Cultural heritage and national identity in Afghanistan. Third World Quarterly, 23(5), 977–989.
- Dupree, Nancy Hatch. (1996). Museum under siege. Archaeology, 49(2), 42–51.
- Dupree, Nancy Hatch. (1988). Demographic reporting on Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Modern Asian Studies, 22, 845–865.
External links
- Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation
- Museum Under Siege: Full Text by Nancy Hatch Dupree
- Preserving Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage: An Interview with Nancy Hatch Dupree
- Nancy Dupree's love affair with Kabul at the Wayback Machine (archived March 6, 2012)
- Groundbreaking ceremony for new library at Kabul University: 25 July 2009
- "Who is the Historian? A portrait of Nancy Dupree" on YouTube
- Afghanistan Center at Kabul University