History of a specific country Armenia Near Eastern Studies Caucasus Armenia
Elected 2002
The history, intellectual culture, manuscripts and philology of the pre-modern Islamic world
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
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics