Rod Campbell Promoted to Associate Professor With Tenure

We are delighted to announce that the NYU Provost has approved the recommendation of ISAW's faculty to promote Rod Campbell from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, with tenure, effective Fall 2017.

Rod intends to pursue three major research projects over the next five to ten years. The first is a historiographic book-length investigation into the construction of the Shang dynasty as a historical subject, tackling issues of scale, narrative, as well as the fragmentary and frequently incommensurable nature of its sources. The second is a new theory of Early Chinese visual culture, combining both cultural holistic and formalist approaches with a more contemporary anthropological perspective, aiming to change the way Early Chinese art is understood. The goal of the third project is to shed light on the economy of North China at the end of the 2^nd millennium BCE. With fieldwork underway on the capital at Anyang, the only excavated contemporaneous village and the longest excavated Shang secondary center, there is an ideal comparative set and the team has already made some exciting discoveries.