Faculty

Dieter Gunkel

Associate Professor Fields of Interest: the historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other Indo-European languages, the relationships between language, melody, and poetic meter, Greek music

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Vinay Lal

Professor Fields of Interest: South and Southeast Asia, World History, Historiography, History and Theory

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Susanna Hecht

Professor; Director, Center for Brazilian Studies Fields of Interest: South American and Amazonia, Political Ecology, Deforestation

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Stephanie Balkwill

Associate Professor; Chair, Center for Buddhist Studies Fields of Interest: East Asia, Buddhist Studies, Women in Early Medieval China, the Spread of Buddhist Traditions

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David Schneller

Assistant Professor Fields of Interest: Ancient Greece and West Asia, Mobility and Interaction among Syrian, Egyptian, Cretan, Cypriot, and Aegean Artists, Culturally Specific Crafting Knowledge

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Kelly Nguyen

Assistant Professor Fields of Interest: Classical Reception, Roman Social History, Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies, Histories of Empire, Postcolonial Theory, Queer of Color Critique, Critical Race Theory and Refugee Studies

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Lara Fabian

Assistant Professor Fields of Interest: Iranian Archaeology, Iron Age through Sasanian Iran and Southwest Asia, Mobile Pastoralist/Sedentary Relationships, The South Caucasus, Landscape Archaeology, Economic History, Numismatics, Historiography of Archaeology with a…

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Zirwat Chowdhury

Assistant Professor Fields of Interest: Reception of the Roman Empire in 18th- and 19th-Century British Art, Imperialisms, Interconnected Historiographies of Art and Visual Culture in Europe, South Asia, and the…

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Lamia Balafrej

Associate Professor Fields of Interest: Arts of the Islamic World, Historical Intersections of Technology, Slavery, and Visibility, Ancient and Early Modern Automatons

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Stephen Acabado

Professor; Chair, Archaeology Interdisciplinary Program; Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Fields of Interest: Historical Ecology, Landscape Archaeology, Agricultural Systems, Settlement Patterns, Emergent Complexity, Indigenous Peoples, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam,…

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