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18th and 19th century travel writing; the intersections between music, natural history and exploration; missionization and colonization.
812 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
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Early modern cultural history of central and eastern Islamdom (Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, Syria); heresy; gender; conversion.
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History of the Chinese language, history of dialects; non-Chinese languages of China; methodology of historical lingistics; semantic theory; distant language relationships.
5163 STB
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Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins; history and theology of Jewish-Christian relation from ancient times to the present.
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Poverty and charity in the Islamic Middle East (600-1100); Arabia at the rise of Islam; redistributive practices in Arabia; GIS mapping of pre- and early Islamic Arabia.
4147 Thayer Bldg.
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Medieval music and Christian liturgy.
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Late medieval English literature; religious narratives, especially saints’ lives and miracle stories; early English literature and canonicity.
1322 North Quad
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Dutch literature with emphasis on the 18th century and the connection with art history.
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Medieval literature; literary theory; comparative literature.
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Premodern China, especially antiquarianism and the history and historiography of science.
5155 STB
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16-17th century Netherlandish art and art literature; early modern ideologies of art and gender; self-imagery; print culture; technologies of vision.
170A Tappan Hall
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Colonial and postcolonial studies; Mediterranean studies; Arabic language and literature; Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain); travel writing.
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Greek drama; linguistics; Greek orators; Plautus.
2140 Angell Hall
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Golden Age Spanish literature, especially theater, focusing on cultural and historical aspects as well as the literary tradition behind them.
University of Michigan
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Ancient and medieval philosophy, mind and metaphysics.
2203 AH
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History and civilization of China to 1800: sociocultural, intellectual-literary, military-diplomatic, historiography, science and technology.
1757 Haven Hall
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Ottoman empire; Middle East; Balkans
3012 Thayer Bldg.
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MEMS Director
Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, especially Dante and his contemporaries.
University of Michigan
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Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza; early modern philosophy; British empiricism, especially Locke, Hume, Rousseau.
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History of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, lexicography, pedagogy, Old and Middle English language and literature.
3187 Angell Hall
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Tang-Song-Yuan China; representations of imperial power, text and writing; archaeology.
1632 Haven Hall
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Sanskrit, Hinduism; linguistic history and the development of linguistic theory in India; cultural, social, religious history.
5016 STB
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Latin literature; Roman culture; text and image; performance studies; Classical reception.
2130 Tisch Hall
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History of the Romance languages, especially Spanish in the medieval and early modern periods.
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Cultural environment of Roman Palestine with emphasis on the encounter between Jews and Graeco-Roman culture.
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English literature, 1600-1800; rise of the novel; literature of travel and exploration, especially 18th century English and the American Southwest.
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Medieval Spain and North Africa; social, cultural and intellectual history of religious interaction; political theology and paleography.
2528 Haven Hall
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Medieval and modern Balkans; Byzantine history; church history, with emphasis on the Eastern Church.
1642 Haven Hall
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Greek and Latin language and literature and historical linguistics.
2150 Angell Hall
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Medieval and early modern England.
1733 Haven Hall
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Roman law, Roman social and economic history, Hellenistic and Roman historiography and political science, ancient architecture, and numismatics.
2119 Angell Hall, 435 Hutchins Hall or 535 Legal Research
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Roman art, especially that of the private realm; copying and emulation in Roman art; uses made of Roman art by the italian fascist government.
150F Tappan Hall and the Kelsey Museum
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Jewish mysticism; ritual studies; emotion and the senses; Hasidism; medieval and modern Jewish thought; notions of time and sacred time.
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Intellectual history of early modern France, with particular interest in women and gender, issues related to epistolarity, material culture, and consumption.
2144 Lane Hall
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English and American legal history.
968 Legal Research
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Early modern English drama; lyric and narrative poetry; Reformation nationalism; subject formation; colonialism; conversion.
University of Michigan
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Historical demography of Europe and America; early modern Europe; population and environment; environmental history.
1120A Perry Bldg
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Ottoman historical, political, geographical writings; Ottoman Islam and Muslim religiosity; pre-19th century Ottoman history; Ottoman-Turkish language; Turkish history.
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17th-18th century American, British, and Portuguese history; Atlantic history; business, economic, and political history; regionalization and globalization; Caribbean slavery.
2767 Haven Hall
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Greek archaeology, vase painting, Hellenistic Near East.
249 Kelsey Museum
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Renaissance drama.
University of Michigan
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Sixteenth century French literature, Renaissance studies.
4126 MLB 1275
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Italian Renaissance social and cultural history; monasticism and the arts; sacred images in the Renaissance.
150B Tappan Hall
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Medieval and early modern history with a focus on social representation and visual culture; mapping; costume; Mediterranean cultural diplomacy.
2507 Haven Hall
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Early American history; women and religion.
2521 Haven Hall
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Medieval and early modern Russia; history of cartography; comparative witchcraft, religion, politics and culture.
2743 Haven Hall
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Social and religious history of South Arabia, especially the Cult of Saints; local manuscript traditions; teaching institutions; social stratification; tribal organization.
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Political, economic and cultural change in mainland SE Asia c. 800-1850, with an emphasis on Eurasian comparisons in this period.
1741 Haven Hall
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Medieval world; Ottoman; astrophysics.
1672 Haven Hall
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History of 17th and 18th century European philosophy, especially Descartes and Hume.
2243 AH
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Late Indian Mahayana Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism.
6111 STB
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Social and cultural history of early modern England; popular beliefs, magic, science and religion; health and healing; history of dreams in England.
2725 Haven Hall
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Medieval Mediterranean literature in Italian, Arabic, Latin; translation between Greek, Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages.
4010 MLB 1275
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Ethno-history; early complex societies in Mexico, Central and South America; Mayan, Zapotec, Andean civilizations from 300-1600 AD.
4038 Museums
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Post-classical Latin.
2143A Angell Hall
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17th century England, literature of war.
2632 Haven Hall
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Medieval French and Occitan literature, gender and sexuality, women's studies.
4108 MLB
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Lute; modal and hexachordal theory in the late middle ages and Renaissance, as well as on the musical repertory from that period.
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Middle English, Old English, Old Norse; devotional and visionary literature in medieval England; female literacy; manuscript studies.
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Icelandic sagas; emotions, particularly those that deal with self-attention and status determination.
University of Michigan
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Colonial South Asia; Islam in South Asia; history of the British Empire; language and society.
2757 Haven Hall
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Christianity in late Antiquity.
4163 Thayer Bldg.
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Early modern drama in relation to cultural and social dynamics; New World exploration and colonization; Reformation history; history of emotions in 16th-17th c. Europe.
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History and Judaic studies; visuality in late antique Judaism.
2506 Haven Hall
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Colonial American literatures, 1500-1800; history of science; nature writing; gift and epistolary theory; gender; ecocriticism.
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Pre-indstrial complex societies, cultural evolution, ethnographic-historical-archaeological interfaces; Mesoamerica, Central Andes.
4042 Museums
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Eighteenth-century British literature; lyric poetry; the novel; women’s studies; feminist criticism.
University of Michigan
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Literary trends in China and England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, involving excursions into world literature, translation theory, comparative political and economic history, and Ming dynasty philosophy.
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The role of the arts in the history of human relations in China, with an emphasis on issues of personal agency and social justice.
120A Tappan Hall
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German literature, culture, history of the 15th and 16th centuries; Reformation; northern Renaissance; gender studies; crime and society; humanism; materiality of textual transmission; history of printing.
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Medieval Japanese renga; Buddhism and medieval Japanese aesthetics; Heian women's writing and self-representation; theories and problems of translation.
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Chinese middle period; premodern drama and fiction.
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Middle English literature; women's textual traditions; hagiography; religious narrative; 15th century literature and culture.
University of Michigan
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Early modern political thought, especially Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes; women in the history of political thought; democratic theory.
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History of early modern philosophy; philosophy of science.
2231 AH
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Early modern English literature; early modern history; courtesy literature; history of medicine; religious literature.
University of Michigan
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D.R. Shackleton-Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin; Chair, Classical Studies
2156 Angell Hall
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European representational arts of the High and Later Middle Ages, especially manuscript illumination, religious and secular iconography and historiography.
150E Tappan Hall
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Art of Renaissance Italy, especially the representation of sexuality and gender; gender and sexuality, especially same-sex between women; history of medicine; baroque art.
170B Tappan Hall
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Archaeology of South India; Vijayanagara Empire (14-17 c); political economy and craft production.
4030 Museums
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Chaucer and Langland; 14th century religious verse; poetics; the history of poetry; the alliterative long line in Piers Plowman.
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Renaissance and baroque architecture; history of architectural theory; history of 17th century science.
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Literature and the visual arts of late antiquity and the early medieval period.
730 Dennison
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Early medieval Europe; the Mediterranean; environmental history; technology.
2727 Haven Hall / 4403 MLB
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Early modern music, theater, and society; theater and opera; Latin American colonial music and literature; Spanish music and culture; baroque and Renaissance music.
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Cultures and literatures of medieval Iberia, especially interaction, exchange, and conflict; the concept of translation as a tool for defining the relations between Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
4140 MLB 1275
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Chaucer; Dante; Middle English literature; 14th century English-Italian literary and cultural relations; medieval ideas of history and literature.
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Medieval art and architecture; Northern Renaissance art.
150A Tappan Hall
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Medieval English and Latin literature, drama; medieval and early modern Bible reception; gender and religion; manuscript and early print culture; Christian images of Islam and Judaism.
University of Michigan
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History, society, and cultures of premodern Japan through the 18th century; sexuality; birth-giving; gender relations; masculinity; property relations; autobiography.
1719 Haven Hall / 1521 Haven Hall
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Old English, early Middle English; early English paleography and manuscript studies; regional and social dialectology.
University of Michigan
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Early modern cultural studies, especially Renaissance drama; gender studies, queer studies, and the history of sexuality.
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Sixteenth and 17th century English literature, especially Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; the history of the passions; religion.
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Social and cultural history of the Roman empire, early medieval Mediterranean and early Byzantium.
2733 Haven Hall
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Colonial Latin America; pre-Columbian cultures; the conquest and colonization of the Americas.
4212 MLB
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Medieval dramas; medieval and early modern popular culture, especially festivals; Cult of the Saints.
112 Tyler
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Africa, West Africa; Islam, Sufism; slavery; African-American, African diaspora.
2510 Haven Hall
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Eighteenth century music history in Europe, especially Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven.
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Italian Renaissance and baroque.
10B Tappan Hall
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Persian language, linguistics, literature, culture; pre-Islamic Iranian languages and religions; Zoroastrianism.
