Esther Jacobson

Esther Jacobson , Ph.D. (1970) in Art History from the University of Chicago, is the Maude I. Kerns Professor of Oriental Art at the University of Chicago. Her publications on Chinese art, on Chinese and nomadic cultural interchange, and on the art and culture of the early Iron Age nomads of Eurasia and their Bronze Age predecessors include her recent book, The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia, A Study in the Ecology of Belief (Brill, 1993).

Esther Jacobson , Ph.D. (1970) in Art History from the University of Chicago, is the Maude I. Kerns Professor of Oriental Art at the University of Chicago. Her publications on Chinese art, on Chinese and nomadic cultural interchange, and on the art and culture of the early Iron Age nomads of Eurasia and their Bronze Age predecessors include her recent book, The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia, A Study in the Ecology of Belief (Brill, 1993). See less