Islamic history and culture up to the Mongols, especially the transition from late antiquity to Islam
Elected 2013
Maritime Studies; Ethnography; Material Culture; Arabic Semantics; Socio-Cultural History
Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China
