Nancy Dupree |
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Born | (1927-10-03)October 3, 1927[1]
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Died | September 10, 2017(2017-09-10) (aged 89)
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Nationality | American |
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Occupation | Administrator |
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Title | Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University |
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Successor | Position vacant |
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Nancy Hatch Dupree (Pashto: نانسي دوپري, romanized: Nansi dupri; October 3, 1927 – September 10, 2017) was an American-Afghan historian whose work primarily focused on the history of modern Afghanistan.
Dupree went to Barnard College and Columbia University to study Chinese.[2]
Dupree was the director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University in Afghanistan and author of five books that she compiled while studying the history of Afghanistan from 1962 until the late 1970s.
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