ISAW Announces 2015-16 Visiting Scholars
ISAW is pleased to announce our roster of research scholars for 2015-16. In addition to working on the listed research project, each scholar will participate in ISAW seminars and present a public lecture. Please join us in welcoming these scholars to our community this fall!
One-Year Visiting Research Scholars
Pam Crabtree (NYU, Anthropology) - Fall 2015
Early Medieval Britain: The Rebirth of Towns in the Post-Roman West
Jue Guo (Barnard College)
A Life on Display: Reconstructing the Worlds of a Chu Official in Early China
Arnulf Hausleiter (German Archaeological Institute)
Re-defining Northwest Arabia in the 2nd Millennium BC: Culture, Economy and Political Organisation in a Key Contact Zone of Ancient Western Asia
Annette Juliano (Rutgers University)
Northern Zhou Buddhist Sculpture and Painting (557-581): Reconsidered
Franziska Naether (University of Leipzig)
Cult Practice in Ancient Egyptian Literature
Parvaneh Pourshariati (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)
Merchants and Ideologies in Late Antique Middle East (500-900 C.E.): The Arab Conquest of Iran and the Fertile Crescent and its Aftermath
Jonathan Skaff (Shippensburg University)
Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China
Juan Manuel Tebes (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, CONICET) - Summer 2015
The Ancient Mediterranean World-System and the Transregional Flow with the Syro-Arabian Periphery: Iconographies of Power in the Rock-Art and Pottery
Zeev Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Spring 2016
Sepphoris: A Cultural Mosaic from Alexander to Muhammad
Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professors
Frederic Clark (PhD, Princeton University)
Dividing Time: The Making of Historical Periodization in Early Modern Europe, c.1500-1750; The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to Enlightenment
Gina Konstantopoulos (PhD, University of Michigan)
Elsewhere is a Negative Country: The Role of Supernatural Figures and the Construction of Imaginary and Abstracted Lands in the Ancient Near East
Elizabeth Murphy (PhD, Brown University) - continuing
At the Intersection of Work, Economy, and Society: A Cross-industry Analysis of Production, Labor, and Work in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean