Dede Ruggles Wins Nancy Lapp Book Award
November 29, 2020
We are pleased to announce that Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford University Press, 2020) by Prof. Dede Ruggles, Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture, has won the Nancy Lapp Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research.
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