Founded in 2016, the Union for Nubian Studies (UNS) is an academic and para-academic effort to bring together all fields of Nubian studies. UNS hopes to form a community engaging in all periods of Nubian history through all intellectual and creative disciplines. It supports projects offering cross-cultural and diachronic approaches to Nubia.
UNS offers a multidisciplinary home to the past, present and future of a region oriented around the cataracts of the Nile, one of the hotbeds of human civilization. It is a crossroads where papyrus meets open access, scribes meet critical thinkers, artifacts meet ideas and the promises of growing nations meet the accomplishments of old kingdoms.
Strongly committed to open access research and publication, UNS allies itself with the variety of initiatives undertaken over the recent years that share this commitment:
In collaboration with DigitalCommons@Fairfield and Punctum Books, UNS publishes the journal Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies and directs a research monograph imprint under the same title.
For more information, contact Giovanni Ruffini (Associate Professor, History, Fairfield University).
