Susan Ackerman
Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion
email: susan.ackerman@dartmouth.edu
For more information about Prof. Ackerman see her faculty biography
Sarah Allan
Burlington Northern Foundation emerita Professor of Asian Studies
email: sarah.allan@dartmouth.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Chinese archaeology and excavated texts; intellectual history of ancient China.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Sarah Allan (2007). “Erlitou and the Formation of Chinese Chinese Civilization: Toward a New Paradigm,” Journal of Asian Studies 66, 2, pp. 461-97.
Sarah Allan, ed. (2005). The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, Yale University Press, New Haven, NJ.
Sarah Allan (1991). The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.
RECENT ADVISING ON INDEPENDENT PROJECTS:
Independent study on Chinese Neolithic (James Hunter Kappel '14)
James Aronson
Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geochronology and Sedimentary Petrology
For more information about Prof. Aronson see his faculty bio.
Nicola (Nick) Camerlenghi
Associate Professor of Art History
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Professor Camerlenghi's interests include early Christian and medieval architecture with a particular focus on the city of Rome; the diffusion and cultural significance of domes in the area around the medieval Mediterranean; the interplay between nature and architecture; the history of gastronomy. Professor Camerlenghi also teaches seminars and topic courses on medieval architecture around the Mediterranean and the department's foreign study program in Rome.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
St. Paul’s Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Jesse Casana
Professor of Anthropology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Jesse Casana is an archaeologist whose research investigates settlement and land use history, the emergence and development of complex societies, and the dynamic interactions of humans with their environment. Casana's projects explore large regions, embrace long periods of human history, and employ a wide range of technologies. He has directed field projects throughout the Middle East, including in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Syria and Dubai, and collaborates on numerous other investigations around the globe. Much of Prof. Casana’s research is dedicated to developing new approaches to archaeological remote sensing using satellite imagery, drones, and ground-based geophysics. He currently directs the CORONA Atlas Project, working to make Cold War-era spy satellite imagery available to researchers, NASA and NEH-funded efforts to explore archaeological landscapes using drone-acquired thermal and mulispectral imagery, and he co-directs the NSF-funded SPARC (SPatial Archaeometry Research Collaborations) Program.
Professor Casana's website.
Jonathan Chipman
Department of Geography
Director, Citrin Family GIS/Applied Spatial Analysis Laboratory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Prof. Chipman uses remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and spatial analysis to study environmental and social systems. These tools (collectively referred to as "geospatial science and technology") can be applied to many types of problems. In recent years he has used them to measure the optical properties of lakes from satellite imagery, assess changes in the land use and hydrology of irrigated-agricultural landscapes in Egypt and China, and monitor the seasonal cycle of greenness and senescence in East Africa. Working with colleagues in the social sciences, Prof. Chipman has also used spatial analysis to map patterns of segregation and diversity across the US, to interpret factors influencing closely fought elections, and to use landscape-scale spatial phenomena as a window onto economic policies.
Ada Cohen
Professor of Art History
Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Ada Cohen (2010). Art in the Era of Alexander the Great : Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
Ada Cohen and S. E. Kangas, eds. (2010). Assyrian Reliefs From the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography. University Press of New England, Hanover, NH.
Ada Cohen (1997). The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
Laura Conkey
Associate Professor of Geography
For more information about Prof. Conkey see her faculty bio.
Nathaniel Dominy
Charles Hansen Professor of Anthropology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Professor Dominy is an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist. He studies the behavior, ecology, and functional morphology of humans and nonhuman primates. His research philosophy is to integrate tropical fieldwork with mechanical, molecular, and isotopic analyses in order to better understand how and why adaptive shifts occurred during primate evolution.
Dominy NJ, Ikram S, Moritz GL, Wheatley PV, Christensen JN, Chipman JW, Koch PL (2020). Mummified baboons reveal the far reach of early Egyptian mariners. eLife 9:e60860. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.60860)
W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R. A. K. Smith, and J. C. Wright (eds.) (2011). Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age: Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Oxford.
Kirk Endicott
Professor emeritus of Anthropology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Prof. Endicott continues to collaborate with Professor Dominy and his former graduate students Vivek Venktaraman and Thomas Kraft on studies of various hunter-gatherer questions, such as why foragers share food beyond the family.
Gene R. Garthwaite
Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies, Emeritus
& Professor of History, Emeritus
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Social history of Iran; pastoral nomadism
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Gene Garthwaite (2005, 2006). The Persians. Oxford.
Gene Garthwaite, Khans and Shahs (2009). A History of the Bakhtiyari Tribe in Iran. London.
Gene Garthwaite and Abbas Alizadeh (2010). “The Rise of the Highland Elamite State in Southwestern Iran: ‘Enclosed' or ‘Enclosing Nomadism?’”, Current Anthropology, 51.3: 353-83.
Marlene Heck
Senior Lecturer, Art History, History
Julie Hruby
Assistant Professor of Classics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aegean Bronze Age archaeology; prehistoric craft production and producers; food, cuisine, and feasting; prehistoric gender and class structures
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Julie Hruby (2012). Identity and the visual identification of seals. In Nosch, M.-L. and Robert Laffineur (eds.), KOSMOS: Jewellery, Adorment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age, Proceedings of the 13th International Aegean Conference/13e Recontre égéenne internationale, University of Copenhagen, 19-23 April 2010, Université de Liège, Histoire de l’art et archéologie de la Grèce antique and University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Liège and Austin. 389-395.
Julie Hruby (2011). Ke-ra-me-u or Ke-ra-me-ja? Evidence for sex, age, and division of labour among Mycenaean ceramicists. In Brysbaert, Ann (ed.), Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology: A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean, Routledge, New York. 89-105.
Julie Hruby (2010). Mycenaean Pottery from Pylos: An Indigenous Typology. American Journal of Archaeology (114) 195-216.
Gary Johnson
Earth Sciences
Steven Kangas
Senior Lecturer, Art History and Jewish Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Near Eastern art and archaeology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Ada Cohen and Steven Kangas, eds. (2010). Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, A Cultural Biography. University Press of New England, Hanover.
Christopher MacEvitt
Religion
Frank Magilligan
Professor of Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fluvial geomorphology and surface water hydrology, including a project in the Peruvian Atacama Desert investigating the long-term evolution of El Niño floods and the regional relationship between climate change and cultural history.
Deborah L. Nichols
William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Archaeology, state formation, early urbanism, political economy, Mexico and Central America (Mesoamerica), U.S. Southwest, practice of archaeology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Deborah Nichols and Christopher A. Pool, eds. (2012). Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology. Oxford University Press, New York.
Deborah Nichols and Christopher A. Pool (2012). Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends. In Nichols, Deborah L., and Christopher A. Pool, eds. Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology. Oxford University Press, New York. , pp. 1-30.
Bridget Alex, Deborah L. Nichols, and Michael D. Glascock (2012). Compositional Analysis of Formative Period Ceramics from the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. Archaeometry Early View 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00652.x.
For more information about Prof. Nichols see her faculty biography.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fluvial geomorphology and surface water hydrology, including a project in the Peruvian Atacama Desert investigating the long-term evolution of El Niño floods and the regional relationship between climate change and cultural history.
Gil Raz
Religion
Jeremy B. Rutter
Professor of Classics (Emeritus)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aegean prehistory (Bronze Age: Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations); ceramic analysis; Greek archaeology of all periods
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Jeremy B. Rutter, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/]
Jeremy B. Rutter (1995). Lerna. A Preclassical Site in the Argolid III: The Pottery of Lerna IV. Princeton University Press.
Religion
Roberta Stewart
Classics
Roger B. Ulrich
Ralph Butterfield Professorship, Classics
email: roger.b.ulrich@dartmouth.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Roman archaeology, especially Roman architecture and ancient Greek and Roman technology; stereophotography of archaeological sites.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Roger Ulrich and C. Quenemoen, eds. (2013). The Blackwell Companion to Roman Architecture. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
Roger Ulrich (2007). Roman Woodworking. Yale University Press. New Haven and London.
Roger Ulrich (2007). “The Representation of Technical Processes in the Classical World,” Chapter 2 of the Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. J. Oleson, ed. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Online research on the Column of Trajan in Rome (ongoing 2013-present).
Personal Website: www.dartmouth.edu/~rogerulrich
Ross Virginia
Arctic Studies, Environmental Studies
Wen Xing
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Languages