Egyptology
Elected 2004
The history and politics of modern China; history of twentieth-century China, in particular the Republican period (1912-1949) and Cold War; contemporary Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations
Late imperial China, the early modern history of exchange between Asia and Europe, and especially the material culture of global exchange, therapeutic commodities, and the cultures and practices of merchants
Oriental and African Studies East Asia China, Japan, Korea South-East Asia Vietnam