Nancy Dupree
, Nancy Hatch Dupree giving a speech during the International Architectural Ideas Competition at the National Museum of Afghanistan in September 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan
Born
United States
Nationality
American and Afghan
Occupation
Administrator
Title
Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University
Successor
Incumbent
Nancy Hatch Duprée (1920s) is 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. She first arrived in Afghanistan in 1962 as a diplomat's wife. Several years later, she met Louis Duprée, who was a renowned archaeologist and scholar of Afghan culture and history. The two fell in love and got married after divorcing their former spouses. The husband and wife team from the United States worked together for 15 years in Kabul, collecting as many works written about Afghanistan as they could. They have travelled all across the country to conduct archaeological excavations in their Land Rover truck.
Books:
A Historical Guide to Afghanistan (1972),
An Historical Guide to Kabul,
A Guide to the National Museum
