Maude I. Kerns Professor of Oriental Art,
Art History
Phone: (541) 346-3677
email: ejacobs@uoregon.edu
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer specializes in the art and archaeology of the Scytho-Siberian nomads and of their Bronze Age predecessors in South Siberia and Mongolia. Among her many publications are: The Deer-Goddess of Ancient Siberia: A Study in the Ecology of Belief ( Brill, 1992); The Art of the Scythians (Brill, 1995) and Rˇpertoire des Pˇtroglyphes d'Asie Centrale: Mongolie du Nord-Ouest, Tsagaan Salaa/Baga Oigor (with V. Kubarev and D. Tseveendorj); and a number of studies of the interconnection between Zhou and Han China and the nomadic world. Dr. Jacobson-Tepfer is a past recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching. She was the first director of the University's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and Director of the NEH-funded project, Integration of Asian Materials into the University of Oregon's Humanities Program. Since 1989, Dr. Jacobson-Tepfer has been engaged in a long-range project with Mongolian and Russian colleages in the Altay Mountains of North Asia. http://www.uoregon.edu/~altay/