Robert Murowchick

Robert Murowchick is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer of Archaeology at Boston University, where he also serves as Senior Advisor for the BU Center for the Study of Asia at the Pardee School of Global Studies. After earning his B.A. in Archaeology at Yale (’78) and A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard (’80), he taught English for two years (’81-’83) at Hubei Provincial Medical College (Wuchang, Hubei, PRC) under the auspices of the Yale-China Association. He then earned his PhD in Anthropology at Harvard (’89) under Prof. Kwang-chih (K.C.) Chang, specializing on the development of ancient bronze technology in southwest China and northern Southeast Asia. He served as Associate Director at Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies. In 1999, he worked with the Henry Luce Foundation to establish the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History at Boston University, expanding the archaeology curriculum there to include more expansive coverage of Asia. In addition to Asian archaeology, his particular teaching and research interests also include international cultural heritage protection, the international antiquities trade, archaeological ethics, and the intersections of politics, nationalism, and cultural heritage studies. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.