School of Historical Studies

2005-2006

Members, Visitors and Research Assistants

*=first term only, **=second term only, =both Member and Visitor

     

Members

David Anthony**
Hartwick College
Eurasian Steppe Archaeology

Catherine Atherton*
University of California, Los Angeles
Ancient Philosophy

João Biehl
Princeton University
Anthropology and Latin American Studies 

Margarethe Billerbeck
University of Fribourg
Greek and Latin Language and Literature 

David Blank*
University of California, Los Angeles
Ancient Philosophy, Classics 

Stuart Borsch*
Assumption College
Comparative Economic History

Gerhard Böwering**
Yale University
Islamic Studies

Michael Braddick**
University of Sheffield
Early Modern British History

Ranabir Chakravarti
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India's Maritime Trade in the Western Indian Ocean (700-1500)

Mechthild Fend
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science
Art History, in particular French 18th- and 19th- century art

Eli Friedlander
Tel Aviv University
Philosophy

Carol Gluck
Columbia University
Japanese History and Comparative Historiography 

Peter Golden
Rutgers University, Newark
History of the Peoples of Medieval Eurasia and Islamic World

Kaja Harter-Uibopuu**
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ancient Greek Legal History, Classics

Alexander Jones
University of Toronto
Classics, History of Science

Peter Lautner*
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Ancient Philosophy

David Lurie
Columbia University
Japanese Literature and History

Ian Mabbett
Monash University
Indology 

Roxani Margariti
Emory University
Middle Eastern Studies

Joseph McDermott
Cambridge University
Chinese History 

Jon McGinnis
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Medieval Arabic Philosophy and History of Science 

Sarah McPhee
Emory University
Art History

Louise McReynolds
University of Hawai'i
Russian History 

Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Indiana University
History of Science and Medicine

Charles Melville**
University of Cambridge
Middle Eastern History, especially the medieval history of Iran

Jordana Mendelson*
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Art History

Valery Nikonorov*
Russian Academy of Sciences
Archaeology of Central Asia, Military Archaeology and History of the Ancient World

Hyun Ok Park
New York University
Korean Diaspora and History of Capitalism and Democracy

Yuri Pines**
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ancient Chinese History and Political Thought

Leon Plantinga*
Yale University
History of Music 

Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Medieval History

Jeremy Popkin**
University of Kentucky
European History

Antonio Ramírez-de-Verger**
Universidad de Huelva
Latin Philology 

Joseph Rife
Macalester College
Classics and Archaeology

Stefan Schmidt*
Universität Augsburg
Classical Archaeology

Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
Freie Universität Berlin
History of Philosophy and Geisteswissenschaften

Emanuele Senici**
University of Oxford
Historical Musicology

Debora Silverman
University of California, Los Angeles
Modern European Cultural History

Siep Stuurman*
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
History of Ideas 

Robert Suckale*
Technical University of Berlin
History of Medieval Art & Architecture

Robert Swanson**
University of Birmingham
Medieval History, especially ecclesiastical history of late medieval England 

Georges Tamer**
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Philosophy, Islamic Studies

Claudia Tiersch**
Technische Universität Dresden
Ancient History, especially church-state relations in Late Antiquity

Edoardo Tortarolo**
Università del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro"
History of the Enlightenment

Steven Vanderputten*
Ghent University
Medieval monasticism, historical remembrance and literate behavior

Nathan Wachtel*
Collège de France
Latin American History/Anthropology

Laura Weigert**
Reed College
Medieval and Renaissance Art History

Muhammad Zaman
Brown University
Islamic Studies 

Evgeny Zaytsev
Institute for History of Science, Moscow
History of Science and Semantics

Katherine Zieman*  
Wesleyan University
Late Medieval English Literature and Culture

 

Visitors

Gerhard Böwering*
Yale University
Islamic Studies

Celia Chazelle
The College of New Jersey
Medieval History

Christopher Jones
Harvard University
Classics

Thomas Noble**
University of Notre Dame
Medieval History

Leon Plantinga**
Yale University      
History of Music 

Valerie Smith
Princeton University
African American History and Literature

Sophie Volpp**
University of California, Berkeley
Chinese Literature

Katherine Zieman**
Wesleyan University
Late Medieval English Literature and Culture

Research Assistants

Uta Nitschke-Stumpf
Institute for Advanced Study, History of Architecture/History of Berlin
(Professor Lavin)

Lennart Sundelin
Institute for Advanced Study, Islamic Studies
(Professor Crone)

Jelena Trkulja
Institute for Advanced Study, Byzantine and Western Medieval Art
(Professor Bynum)

Katherine Zieman*  
Wesleyan University  
Late Medieval English Literature and Culture