The proposed project focuses on Chinese Buddhism on Mt. Jiuhua in the Mao era (1949–1978), especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) when the persecution of Buddhism was in full swing. ...read more
The margins of medieval Greek manuscripts are often filled with annotations of all sorts, from systematic commentaries to occasional reactions of readers. This project aims to study Byzantine marginal texts ...read more
In the medieval Near East, in the aftermath of the arrival of Latin Christians from the West and Seljuk Turks from the East, Christian groups sought to define their own ...read more
My research examines linguistic awareness in the Greek world by focusing on ancient linguistic approaches that still inform the Modern Greek debate on the definition of a national language. The ...read more
Researchers generally situate the origins of Belgian-Dutch blackface as a way to ridicule Afro-diasporic people in the second half of the nineteenth century, when Anglo-American minstrel troupes arrived in the Low ...read more
African Red Slip Ware (ARS) was produced from the 1st to the 7th century AD in the Roman provinces of modern-day Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, and exported to the whole ...read more
This project examines attempts to exterminate 'nuisance animals', species that are considered harmful to human interests, in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the fifteenth and ...read more
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie project “Intracorporeal Narratives: Reading Internal Biology in Women’s Literature, 1880s-1930s” (INTRARIB) examines British and American women’s fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for its ...read more