Affiliated Faculty
Adam Becker
Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies
Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity; Syriac language and literature; reception of classical antiquity; critical theories of religion; the missionary encounter in the modern Middle East; comparative approaches to martyrdom
http://religiousstudies.as.nyu.edu/object/AdamBecker.html
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
Professor of History
Medieval history; France; prescholastic culture and society; sign theory; sigillography, diplomatics, and paleography.
http://as.nyu.edu/object/brigittebedosrezak.html
Raffaella Cribiore
Professor of Classics
Education in the Greek and Roman worlds, literary and semi-literary papyrology, and rhetoric in late antiquity, particularly with respect of the works of the fourth-century sophist Libanius in Antioch, Syria; interests in issues regarding paganism and Christianity in the fourth century.
http://classics.as.nyu.edu/object/raffaellacribiore.html
Daniel E. Fleming
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Assyriology, Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history, ancient Syria, Emar, ancient religion, interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies.
http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/danielfleming.html
Ogden Goelet Jr.
Associate Research Scholar of Middle Eastern Studies
Egyptian lexicography, cultural history, and literature
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/people/goelet.html
Gnter Kopcke
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts
Prehistoric to early classical Greece; circum-Mediterranean studies; Roman and early medieval civilization in Europe north of the Alps.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/faculty/kopcke.htm
David Levene
Professor of Classics
Latin prose literature and Roman religion; publications on Livy, Tacitus, Cicero, Sallust, Polybius, and Latin panegyric; current projects including Cornelius Nepos, Pompeius Trogus, and the Roman imperial cut. Early rabbinic Judaism and the reception of the ancient world in cinema.
http://classics.as.nyu.edu/object/DavidLevene.html
Clemente Marconi
James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts; University Professor
Greek art and architecture in archaic and classical periods
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/faculty/marconi.htm
Andrew Monson
Assistant Professor of Classics
Ancient history, particularly the Hellenistic kingdoms and the rise of the Roman Empire. Research interests include political economy, the comparative history of early empires, and Greek relations with the Near East. Particular interests are religious associations, temple administration, land tenure, and taxation.
http://classics.as.nyu.edu/object/andrewmonson.html
David O'Connor
d.oconnor@nyu.edu
Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, Institute of Fine Arts
Ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology; Ancient Nubian art history and archaeology
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/faculty/oconnor.htm
Michael Peachin
Professor of Classics
Roman Imperial history; Roman law; Latin epigraphy.
http://classics.as.nyu.edu/object/michaelpeachin.html
Lawrence Schiffman
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature
http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/lawrenceschiffman.html
Hsueh-Man Shen
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
Art and archaeology of pre-modern China, especially the Tang and Song/Liao transitional periods. Research interests include the interrelationship between funerary and religious practices in pre-modern China, interplay of word and image in the visual culture of East Asia, Art and material culture along the ancient Silk Road.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/faculty/shen.htm
Mark S. Smith
Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
The literatures and religions of the Levant, from the Late Bronze Age to the eve of Christianity; Ugaritic literature, Israelite religion and culture, the Hebrew Bible.
http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/marksmith.html
Kostis Smyrlis
Assistant Professor of History
Byzantine empire, especially the middle and late Byzantine period (10th to 15th century); focus on economic history, the land regime, and the conflict between the Roman tradition and medieval realities; diplomatics and the editing of the documents of Mount Athos; taxation system and finances of the late Byzantine state.
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/kostissmyrlis
Thelma Thomas
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Late Antique and Byzantine art. Visual and material culture of Egypt during Late Antiquity, especially sculpture and textiles; interests in the arts of Nubia and Ethiopia during Late Antiquity, artistic interrelationships along the Nile Valley, across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and along trade routes heading farther East; Christian arts of the Medieval Middle East.
Katherine Welch
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Art and archaeology of the Roman Empire in the Republican/Hellenistic and early Imperial periods, especially in Italy but also in Asia Minor and Greece. Major interests in architecture, sculpture, painting, and urbanism, particularly in issues of the patronage and viewer reception of art. Publications on Roman spectator buildings, portraiture, wall painting, and the "neighborhoods" of the city of Rome. Current project on The Aesthetics of Roman War.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/faculty/welch.htm
Rita Wright
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Prehistoric archaeology of the Near East and South Asia; state formation and urbanism; Gender studies
