The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
Elected 2014
Aramaic inscriptions of the Roman-period Near East (especially Nabataen & Syriac); associated historical, religious & legal studies; early development of the Arabic script; Ugaritic, Hebrew & Syriac philology & literature
Early Christian literature, especially the study of letters and homilies and the edition of Greek texts; translations from Greek and Latin
Early Judaism and the formation of early Christian thought and practice in the first century; the theology of Paul and the history of its reception
