Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Professor Emerita, Art History
Phone: (541) 346- 3677
Email: ejacobs@uoregon.edu
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, the first director Central for Asian Pacific Studies, specializes in the art and archaeology of the Scytho-Siberian nomads and of their predecessors in South Siberia and Mongolia. Her recent publications include: “Archaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology and Eurasia, (forthcoming); “Petroglyphs and the Qualification of Bronze Age Mortuary Archaeology” in Archaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology of Eurasia, (2002); “Le plus ancient art a l’air libre an Mongolie-Altai: images at paleocologie” in L’Art Paleolithique A L’Air Libre, (2002); “Shamans, Shamanism, and Anthropomorphizing Imagery in Prehistoric Rock Art of the Mongolian Altay” in Shamanism: Uses and Abuses of a Concept, (2002). She serves as a board member of the Mongolian Society and is on the Editorial Board of Archaeology, Ethnology, and the Anthropology of Eurasia. In 2002, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Institute of Archaeology from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. She was the past recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching. She holds the department’s Maude I. Kerns Professorship in Oriental Art. Current research publication projects include her study (with colleagues) of two Mongolian petroglyphic sites, Aral Tolgoi and Tsagaan Gol. She is also working on a book on rock art.
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