Evan Pugh Professor of Art History Elected University of Oxford Senior Research Associate
April 30, 2008
Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh Professor of Art History, has been elected senior research associate of the Khalili Research Centre for the Art & Material Culture of the Middle East, University of Oxford, England, Hilary and Trinity Terms, for spring 2009. While at Oxford, Professor Cutler will also be an associate of the Sub-Faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
Cutler, recognized as a world authority in Byzantine studies, has been a Penn State faculty member since 1967. He teaches undergraduate courses in late antique, early Christian and Byzantine art, and graduate courses on theory, iconology and methods of research. Cutler’s current research examines the gift exchange between Byzantium and Islam, where he is unraveling the complex cultural exchanges of precious gifts and embassies between these two societies by using an interdisciplinary approach including art history and anthropology to decipher their cultural relations.He is currently working on his book, The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange Between Byzantium, the Islamic World, and Beyond.
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Contact: Flora Marynak, 863-0621, fwm1@psu.edu