Professor Omer Shah Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for Book Project
July 30, 2024
July 30, 2024
CLAREMONT, California, July 30 (TNSres) -- Pomona College issued the following news:
Omer Shah, assistant professor of anthropology at Pomona College, is using a $6,000 summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to write two chapters of his monograph, Made in Mecca: Expertise, Techno-politics, and Hospitality in the Post-Oil Holy City.
Shah is the second Pomona cultural anthropologist in as many years to receive an NEH summer stipend.
Omer Shah, assistant professor of anthropology at Pomona College, is using a $6,000 summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to write two chapters of his monograph, Made in Mecca: Expertise, Techno-politics, and Hospitality in the Post-Oil Holy City.
Shah is the second Pomona cultural anthropologist in as many years to receive an NEH summer stipend.