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

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, Lylaah Bhalerao, Mariana Castro, Braden Cordivari, 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, Braden Cordivari, Soraya Field Fiorio, Kechu Huang, Amber Jacob, Kate Justement, Nathan Lovejoy, Samantha Rainford, 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, Mi Wang, Yan Zhang, Zhonglin Zhang, Jingyi Zhou

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, Lylaah Bhalerao, Kyle Brunner, Christine Roughan, Jingyi Zhou

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, 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.