What We Study

ISAW's faculty and students work across many geographical, chronological, and disciplinary domains, which are connected in complex ways; our doctoral program therefore is unified, without departmental divisions. The list of faculty and students below, however, will give prospective students an idea of the major broad groupings of fields and the communities at ISAW in each of them. These groupings, it should be emphasized, are only illustrative of the range of interests at ISAW.

Greco-Roman World

Faculty: Claire Bubb, Sebastian Heath, Alexander Jones, Antonis Kotsonas

Associated Faculty: Hallie Franks, David Ratzan

Affiliated Faculty: Adam Becker, Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta, Günter H. Kopcke, Barbara Kowalzig, David Levene, Clemente Marconi, Andrew Monson, Michael Peachin, Thelma K. Thomas, Katherine Welch

Emeritus Faculty: Roger Bagnall

Research Associates: Gilles Bransbourg, Yehudah B. Cohn, Candida Moss

Graduate Students: Ida Adsbøl Christensen, Priya Barchi, Lylaah Bhalerao, Allyson Blanck, Mariana Castro, Braden Cordivari, Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli, Emily Frank, Isabel Grossman-Sartain, Jonathan Leite, Lauren Malkoun, Manolis Mavromatis, Talia Sankari, Anna Selden, Katherine Thomson, Dylan G. Winchell

The Ancient Near East and Egypt

Faculty: Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Robert Hoyland, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Daniel Potts

Associated Faculty: David Ratzan

Affiliated Faculty: Adam Becker, Daniel Fleming, Andrew Monson, Ann Macy Roth, Lawrence Schiffman, Mark S. Smith, Thelma K. Thomas, Stephen J. Tinney, Rita Wright

Emeritus Faculty: Roger Bagnall

Adjunct Faculty: Marc LeBlanc

Research Associates: Niv Allon, Yehudah B. Cohn, Clare Fitzgerald, Ogden Goelet, Sameh Iskander, Karen Rubinson

Graduate Students: Ida Adsbøl Christensen, Stefano Aprà, Narges Bayani, Mariana Castro, Braden Cordivari, Soraya Field Fiorio, Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli, Kechu Huang, Samantha Rainford, Ryan Schnell, Talia Sankari, Anna Selden, Yu Song, Dylan G. Winchell

Central and East Asian Art, Archaeology and History

Faculty: Roderick Campbell, Daniel Potts, Sören Stark, Lillian Tseng

Associated Faculty: Ethan Harkness

Affiliated Faculty: Fiona Kidd, Hsueh-man Shen, Stephen F. Teiser, Rita Wright

Research Associates: Annette Juliano, Judith A. Lerner, Karen Rubinson

Graduate Students: Mariana Castro, Emily Everest-Phillips, Kechu Huang, Shannon Monroe, Vikentiy Parshuto, Jingyi Zhou, Tianrui Zhu

Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Faculty: Claire Bubb, Sebastian Heath, Robert Hoyland, Alexander Jones, Daniel Potts, Sören Stark

Affiliated Faculty: Adam Becker, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Helmut Reimitz, Thelma K. Thomas

Emeritus Faculty: Roger Bagnall

Research Associates: Yehudah B. Cohn

Graduate Students: Nour Ammari, Lylaah Bhalerao, Kyle Brunner, Emily Everest-Phillips, Vikentiy Parshuto, Jingyi Zhou

Ancient Science

Faculty: Claire Bubb, Alexander Jones, Robert Hoyland, Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Associated Faculty: Ethan Harkness

Graduate Students: Ida Adsbøl Christensen, Allyson Blanck

Digital Humanities

Faculty & Staff: Roger Bagnall, Tom Elliott, Sebastian Heath, David Ratzan

Graduate Students: Stefano Aprà, Mariana Castro, Emily Frank, Jonathan Leite, Lauren Malkoun, Manolis Mavromatis, Tianrui Zhu

Images:
1. Gold 100 litra, Syracuse, 405 BC - 400 BC. 1944.100.55812, American Numismatic Society.
2. A scribe writing on clay. Detail from the stone decoration of Tiglath-pileser III's Central Palace at Kalhu (modern Nimrud) (British Museum, ME 118882). Photo courtesy of Prof. Beate Pongratz-Leisten.
3. ISAW Exhibition: Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan.
4. Panel from an ivory casket: Christ carrying the Cross, Late Roman, 1856,0623.4, The British Museum.
5. Tablet illustrating Pythagoras' Theorem, Yale Babylonian Collection YBC 7289, in ISAW Exhibition Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics. Photo courtesy of Andrea Brizzi.
6. Excavation at Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, led by Prof. Roger Bagnall.