Robert Murowchick
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Boston University
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Dr. Robert Murowchick’s 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. Since 1991, Dr. Murowchick has served as co-investigator and then as co-principal investigator of the Sino-US collaborative archaeological field program Investigations into Early Shang Civilization, with the Institute of Archaeology (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing). This ongoing project is tracing the origins of the 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.
Dr. Murowchick is director of the International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History (ICEAACH) at Boston University, where he also serves as research associate professor of archaeology and anthropology. He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of East Asian Archaeology (JEAA), which is edited at BU and published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden. He is also an associate in East Asian archaeology at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Dr. Murowchick serves as an academic trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and is active in Asia-related public outreach activities with museums and K-12 teachers. Dr. Murowchick served as associate director of Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning from 1990 to 1992, and then concurrently as associate director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and of Harvard’s Title VI National Resource Center for East Asian Studies from 1992 to 1996.
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Report published 20 years after first Sino-U.S. field archaeological excavation
September 23, 2017
Xinhuanet Robert Murowchick An archaeology report was published Saturday, 20 years after the first joint field archaeological excavation between China and the United States that ended in 1997… Expert quote: “It opened a new chapter in opportunities for Sino-foreign archeology research.” View full article
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Hobby Lobby Accused of Hypocrisy Amid Smuggling Case
July 6, 2017
Associated Press quoting Bob Murowchick, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy…” Expert quote: “It’s like that scene in ‘Casablanca’: […]
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Is this mysterious ancient amulet a snapshot of cultural innovation?
November 16, 2016
Christian Science Monitor Robert Murowchick, College of Arts & Sciences What can a corroded lump of metal say about the history of manufacturing? Quite a lot, scientists suggest. Expert quote: “This is a great example of how increasingly sophisticated materials science research is giving these silent objects a ‘voice,’ to allow the artifacts to ‘speak’ […]
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Archaeology’s victims of war
May 27, 2015
FoxNews.com Robert Murowchick, College of Arts & Sciences, International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History The Middle East is largely considered to be the epicenter of the “cradle of civilization,” and has historic sites that date back thousands of years… Expert quote: “Unfortunately, there is no shortage of depressing case studies for the […]
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Chinese terra cotta warriors had real, and very carefully made, weapons
November 27, 2012
Washington Post Robert Murowchick, College of Arts & Sciences, International Center for East Asian Archaeology The 7,000 soldiers buried with Qin Shi Huang in 210 B.C. were made of clay… View article
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