Directory
Marie-Claude Boileau
Director, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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I am an archaeological scientist focusing on ceramics and interested in the relation between maker and material, and in the mobility of knowledge, people and objects.
Tessa De Alarcon
Project Conservator, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East • Pacific
Affiliation • Penn Museum
I am interested in improving treatment efficacy as well as the examination on of objects using multi -modal imaging, X-radiography, and microscopy.
Reyhan Durmaz
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My research focuses on the history of Christianity and Christian-Muslim relations in late antiquity and the medieval Middle East, with an eye towards the issues surrounding religious minorities in the Middle East today.
Kecia Fong
Lecturer, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
Specialization • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Pacific
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Kecia Fong is a heritage conservation educator and practicing professional who specializes in heritage conservation theory, history, and practice with a research focus on the technical and socio-political dimensions of conservation work in postcolonial societies and the global heritage arena particularly as they intersect issues of civil society, governance, and development.
Emily Hammer
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Price Lab for the Digital Humanities
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I use satellite imagery analysis and the methodologies of survey and landscape archaeology to provide a regional and spatial perspective on heritage preservation and site looting in conflict zones.
Michael C. Henry
Adjunct Professor, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
Specialization • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Pacific
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Diagnostic thinking and sustainable environmental management for preventive conservation of fixed and movable cultural heritage.
Stephen Lang
Lyons Keeper of Collections, Asian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Museums
Region • Asia
Affiliation • Penn Museum
I have an interest in the material culture of Asia and the different ways in which museums acquire collections.
Mark Lycett
Director, South Asia Center
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My research focuses on the historical anthropology and social ecology of landscape formation, biodiversity, and power relations in South Asia. I am interested in the interplay of cultural landscapes and forest history; in the relationship between commemoration, social memory; and in the cultural construction of place in southern India. I have also written extensively on the social history and historical ecology of place and landscape in the Spanish Colonial Americas.
Lynn Meskell
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Anthropology, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Curator, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum • Weitzman School of Design
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I’ve always been drawn to social and political issues, whether in the past or indeed how the past comes to matter in the present. As famously said, the past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Naomi F. Miller
Consulting Scholar, Near East Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum
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As an archaeobotanist, I investigate human impact on and adaptation to the environment over millennia, up to and including the present.
Katherine M. Moore
Practice Professor, Anthropology
Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials
Kathleen D. Morrison
Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor, Anthropology
Curator, Asian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Lauren Ristvet
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Robert H. Dyson, Jr. Associate Curator, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My work in Syria, Azerbaijan and Iraq investigates how and why ancient kingdoms and empires endured or failed—and how modern empires have repurposed this legacy in surprising ways.
Theodore G. Schurr
Professor, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East • Pacific
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Through DNA analysis, we reconstruct the origin and migration history of human populations, linking evidence from the past with present day understandings of ancestry, genealogy, and history.
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Curator of Chinese Art, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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I seek research problems that involve border-crossing and interactions between China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia; I have ongoing research projects or collaborations in all four countries.
Thomas Tartaron
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Asia • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My research is about bringing multiple ways of knowing to intriguing questions of the ancient past.
Stephen J. Tinney
Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Heritage
Region • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My primary activity is online because between Oracc and ePSD (see the links) we cover an immense range of material and reach the maximum possible number of people with it.
Joyce White
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Consulting Scholar, Asian Section, Penn Museum
Christopher Woods
Williams Director, Penn Museum
Avalon Professor in the Humanities
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • Penn Museum
My current research centers on the origins of writing and the rise of the world’s first cities in southern Mesopotamia (Iraq); as the former director of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute and now the Penn Museum, I have been involved in large-scale conservation and cultural heritage projects, particularly in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
Professor, Sociology and Africana Studies
Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My academic production includes teaching, researching, filmmaking, and curating.