History of a specific country Armenia Near Eastern Studies Caucasus Armenia
Elected 2002
Islamic art, with particular reference to Iran and Syria; medieval architecture, book painting and iconography
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
Sanskrit philology; Indian literature, intellectual history, history of aesthetics; theory of philology and of comparativism