Visiting Research Scholars 2016-17

This article first appeared in ISAW Newsletter 16, Fall 2016.

• Frederic Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 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
• Emily Cole, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  Translation on Display: Multilingual Monuments in Ptolemaic Egypt
• Alan Greene, Ph.D., University of Chicago
  Provisioning the Political: Material Economies, Ritual Life, & Social Inequality Among the Earliest Polities of the Ancient World
• Yitzchak Jaffe, Ph.D., Harvard University
  Rediscovering the Multiethnic & Multi-cultural Origins of Chinese Civilization
• Gina Konstantopoulos, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan
  Elsewhere is a Negative Country: The Role of Supernatural Figures & the Construction of Imaginary and Abstracted Lands in the Ancient Near East
• Bill Mak (August 2016-February 2017), Kyoto University
  Transmission and Dissemination of Greek Astral Science in South & East Asia during the First Millennium CE
• Maya Maskarinec, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  Unsafe for Saints: Alternate Histories of Christian Rome
• Robert Spengler, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
  How the Silk Road Shaped Your Dinner Table: A Study of the Origins & Spread of Agriculture in Central Eurasia