Department of Archaeology
Research Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
Director, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH)

Robert Murowchick specializes in the archaeology of China and Southeast Asia during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. He is particularly interested in the development of early metallurgy in this region, and in the relationship among politics, nationalism, and archaeological research. Professor Murowchick is the Director of BU's International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH), and is the Co-Principal Investigator of the ongoing collaborative Sino-American archaeological field program "Investigations into Early Shang Civilization," with the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He serves as co-editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of East Asian Archaeology (the editorial home of which is at ICEAACH), and is actively involved in a wide range of public outreach initiatives to bring East Asian archaeology and history to a broad public audience and to the K-12 curriculum. He is also an Academic Trustee on the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Archaeology of Ancient China (CAS AR 240)

Graduate:
Special Topics in Chinese Archaeology (CAS AR 905)