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.
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Greco-Roman World |
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The Ancient Near East and Egypt |
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Central and East Asian Art & Archaeology |
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Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages |
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Ancient Science |
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Digital Humanities |
Greco-Roman World
Faculty: Claire Bubb, Sebastian Heath, Alexander Jones, Antonis Kotsonas
Associated Faculty: Hallie Franks
Affiliated Faculty: Adam Becker, Raffaella Cribiore, 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, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Yehudah B. Cohn, Candida Moss
Graduate Students: Ida Adsbøl Christensen, Mariana Castro, Emily Frank, Katherine Thomson, Georgios Tsolakis, Dylan G. Winchell
The Ancient Near East and Egypt
Faculty: Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Robert Hoyland, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Daniel Potts
Affiliated Faculty: Adam Becker, Daniel Fleming, Andrew Monson, David O’Connor, Ann Macy Roth, Lawrence Schiffman, Mark S. Smith, Thelma K. Thomas, Stephen J. Tinney, Rita Wright
Emeritus Faculty: Roger Bagnall
Adjunct Faculty: Clare Fitzgerald, Marc LeBlanc
Research Associates: Niv Allon, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Yehudah B. Cohn, Ogden Goelet, Naomi Miller, Karen Rubinson
Graduate Students: Ida Adsbøl Christensen, Narges Bayani, Mariana Castro, David Danzig, Soraya Field Fiorio, Kechu Huang, Amber Jacob, Kate Justement, Nathan Lovejoy, Ryan Schnell, 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: Claudia Chang, Annette Juliano, Judith A. Lerner, Karen Rubinson
Graduate Students: Mariana Castro, Kechu Huang, Alireza Khounani, Shannon Monroe, Fanghan Wang, Mi Wang, Yan Zhang, Zhonglin Zhang
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, Raffaella Cribiore, Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Helmut Reimitz, Kostis Smyrlis, Thelma K. Thomas
Emeritus Faculty: Roger Bagnall
Research Associates: Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Yehudah B. Cohn
Graduate Students: Nour Ammari, Kyle Brunner, Christine Roughan
Ancient Science
Faculty: Claire Bubb, Alexander Jones, Robert Hoyland, Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Associated Faculty: Ethan Harkness
Graduate Students: Ida Adsbøl Christensen, Amber Jacob, Christine Roughan
Digital Humanities
Faculty & Staff: Roger Bagnall, Tom Elliott, Sebastian Heath, David Ratzan
Graduate Students: Mariana Castro, David Danzig, Emily Frank, Christine Roughan, Georgios Tsolakis
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.