Early metallurgy in China and Southeast Asia; archaeological remote sensing; aerial and satellite imagery; the relationship among politics, nationalism, and archaeological research<\/em><\/p>\n Prof. Murowchick is Associate Director<\/a> of BU\u2019s Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA)<\/a>, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of AsianArc: BU\u2019s Asian Cultural Heritage Research Initiative (formerly the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, or ICEAACH)<\/em>; and\u00a0Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Boston University.\u00a0He is also an Associate in East Asian Archaeology at Harvard\u2019s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.<\/p>\n Prof. Murowchick previously served as Associate Director of Harvard\u2019s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning from 1990-1992, and then concurrently as Associate Director of Harvard\u2019s John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and of its Title VI National Resource Center for East Asian Studies from 1992-1996. He is active with many Asian Studies-related public outreach efforts with Primary Source, NCTA (the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia), the Archaeological Institute of America, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Children\u2019s Museum, and many other institutions.<\/p>\n Prof. Murowchick\u2019s principal research interests include the development of early metallurgy in China and Southeast Asia, archaeological remote sensing (particularly the use of aerial and satellite imagery), and the relationship among politics, nationalism, and archaeological research, and cultural heritage preservation and the international trade in antiquities. From 1991-2004, he served as Co-Investigator and then as Co-Principal Investigator of the collaborative archaeological field program <\/span>Investigations into Early Shang Civilization, between the Peabody Museum (Harvard University) and the Institute of Archaeology (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing). This project sought to trace the origins of Shang civilization through an interdisciplinary program of geological testing and landscape reconstruction, geophysical remote sensing, and archaeological excavation focused on the region of Shangqiu County in eastern Henan Province, China. Critical to the success of this project was the close collaboration of a number of specialists from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of British Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, University of Toronto, MIT, and the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, among others.\u00a0 Murowchick\u2019s\u00a0current collaborative work focuses on investigations of non-ferrous metallurgy in southwest China, the history of Chinese bronze studies, and the development of the ARC\/Base Project, a comprehensive, multilingual web-based bibliographic database of Asian archaeology and related fields.<\/span><\/p>\nAbout Professor Murowchick<\/h4>\n
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