Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated Faculty are individuals appointed in other departments of New York University who take part in ISAW's graduate program and other activities in a variety of ways.
- Raffaella Cribiore
- Professor of Classics. Interests: Education in the Greek and Roman worlds, literary and semi-literary papyrology, and rhetoric in late antiquity, particularly with respect of the works of the fourth-century sophist Libanius in Antioch, Syria; interests in issues regarding paganism and Christianity in the fourth century.
- Adam Becker
- Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies. Interests: Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity; Syriac language and literature; reception of classical antiquity; critical theories of religion; the missionary encounter in the modern Middle East; comparative approaches to martyrdom.
- Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
- Professor of History. Interests: Medieval history; France; prescholastic culture and society; sign theory; sigillography, diplomatics, and paleography.
- Daniel E. Fleming
- Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Interests: Assyriology, Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history, ancient Syria, Emar, ancient religion, interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies.
- Ogden Goelet Jr.
- Associate Research Scholar of Middle Eastern Studies. Interests: Egyptian lexicography, cultural history, and literature.
- Günter H. Kopcke
- Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts. Interests: Prehistoric to early classical Greece; circum-Mediterranean studies; Roman and early medieval civilization in Europe north of the Alps.
- Clemente Marconi
- James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts; University Professor. Interests: Greek art and architecture in archaic and classical periods
- David Levene
- Professor of Classics. Interests: Latin prose literature and Roman religion; publications on Livy, Tacitus, Cicero, Sallust, Polybius, and Latin panegyric; current projects including Cornelius Nepos, Pompeius Trogus, and the Roman imperial cut. Early rabbinic Judaism and the reception of the ancient world in cinema.
- Andrew Monson
- Assistant Professor of Classics. Interests: Ancient history, particularly the Hellenistic kingdoms and the rise of the Roman Empire. Research interests include political economy, the comparative history of early empires, and Greek relations with the Near East. Particular interests are religious associations, temple administration, land tenure, and taxation.
- David O'Connor
- Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, Institute of Fine Arts. Interests: Ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology; Ancient Nubian art history and archaeology.
- Michael Peachin
- Professor of Classics. Interests: Roman Imperial history; Roman law; Latin epigraphy.
- Lawrence Schiffman
- Vice Provost for Undergraduate Eduction, Yeshiva University. Interests: Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.
- Hsueh-Man Shen
- Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. Interests: Art and archaeology of pre-modern China, especially the Tang and Song/Liao transitional periods. Research interests include the interrelationship between funerary and religious practices in pre-modern China, interplay of word and image in the visual culture of East Asia, Art and material culture along the ancient Silk Road.
- Mark S. Smith
- Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Interests: The literatures and religions of the Levant, from the Late Bronze Age to the eve of Christianity; Ugaritic literature, Israelite religion and culture, the Hebrew Bible.
- Kostis Smyrlis
- Assistant Professor of History Interests: Byzantine empire, especially the middle and late Byzantine period (10th to 15th century); focus on economic history, the land regime, and the conflict between the Roman tradition and medieval realities; diplomatics and the editing of the documents of Mount Athos; taxation system and finances of the late Byzantine state.
- Thelma Thomas
- Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine art. Visual and material culture of Egypt during Late Antiquity, especially sculpture and textiles; interests in the arts of Nubia and Ethiopia during Late Antiquity, artistic interrelationships along the Nile Valley, across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and along trade routes heading farther East; Christian arts of the Medieval Middle East.
- Katherine Welch
- Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Interests: Art and archaeology of the Roman Empire in the Republican/Hellenistic and early Imperial periods, especially in Italy but also in Asia Minor and Greece. Major interests in architecture, sculpture, painting, and urbanism, particularly in issues of the patronage and viewer reception of art. Publications on Roman spectator buildings, portraiture, wall painting, and the "neighborhoods" of the city of Rome. Current project on The Aesthetics of Roman War.
- Rita Wright
- Professor of Anthropology Interests: Prehistoric archaeology of the Near East and South Asia; state formation and urbanism; Gender studies.
- Pam Crabtree
- Ann Macy Roth
- Hallie Franks
- Ethan Harkness
- Barbara Kowalzig
