Welcome to the New Visiting Research Scholars for the 2024-2025 Academic Year!
Wolfgang Alders
Visiting Research Scholar 2024-25
Wolfgang Alders received his PhD in anthropological archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022, and he was a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville from 2022-2024.
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Éric Fournier
Visiting Research Scholar 2024-25
Dr. Éric Fournier received his BA in History and Classics, and MA in Ancient History from the Université de Montréal, and completed his doctoral studies on ancient and late antique history in 2008, at the University of California – Santa Barbara. He has since been teaching ancient and medieval history at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where he holds the rank of Professor of History.
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Ming Guo
Visiting Research Scholar 2024-25
Guo Ming received her Ph.D. from the School of Archaeology and Museology at Peking University in 2013. She has worked as a researcher at the Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of History and Culture, Shandong University, and she is currently an associate professor at the Institute for the History of Global Civilizations, Shanghai International Studies University.
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Abigail Hoskins
Visiting Research Scholar 2024-25
Abigail received her PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024, her MA from Berkeley in 2019, and her BA in Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Chicago in 2015.
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Rong Huang
Visiting Assistant Professor 2024-26
Rong received her PhD and MA from Harvard University, and her BA from Tsinghua University. She was the William R. Tyler Fellow in the Byzantine Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks from 2021 to 2023, where she co-curated an exhibition entitled “Garden and Nature in the Medieval World.”
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Chris Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor 2024-26
Chris received his PhD from Columbia University, MA from Harvard University, and BA from Brown University. His research examines statecraft, political economy, and spatial dynamics of state power in Zhou China (1045-221 BCE) through paleographic, archaeological, and textual analysis.
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Gunvor Lindström
Visiting Research Scholar 2024-25
Dr. Gunvor Lindström is a Classical Archaeologist by training who completed her dissertation on seals and sealings from Hellenistic Uruk at the Free University of Berlin (published in 2003), she has spent most of her academic career following that at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). An internationally recognized expert on Hellenism in the Ancient East, she has conducted numerous research projects in Central Asia, Iran, and Mesopotamia, focusing on the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Parthian periods.