Alice Crowther

Presentation

Alice Crowther is ATER (fixed-term contractual lecturer) in Philological Methods in the Section of Historical and Philological Sciences of the l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-PSL. From 2018 to 2021, she was a research associate at the Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of France, working on a project on the Manchu Christian texts conserved in the National Library. 

Research thematics

• History of the Mongolian and the Manchu Book and History of Reading Practices
• Epigraphy (Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu) of the Yuan and Qing dynasties
• Institutional, social and religious history of the Qing Empire (from archival sources)
• Institutional, social and religious history of the Yuan Empire
• Philological applications of the digital humanities
• Codicological analysis of manuscripts and blockprints from Dunhuang of the Yuan period and history of the region of Dunhuang under the Yuan

CRCAO research programmes

• Anthropologies
• Religions and Changing Knowledge in Inner Asia
• Historical anthropology of the margins of the Chinese empire
• Epigraphy and memory of the temples of Peking, the social history of the imperial capital

External research programmes

• Les textes chrétiens en langue mandchoue de la Bibliothèque nationale
• ANR ChEDiL: Chinese European Dictionaries: Lexicographical Manuscripts for the Historical Study of Exchanges between China and Europe (end of 16th -beginning of 19th centuries)
• BnF DataLab - ManjuGisunTranscript. L’HTR pour les langues à graphies non latines. Transcription et exploitation d’ouvrages en mandchou sur Gallica
• 満洲語档案に記録されたユーラシア中央域の世界 /The Central Eurasian World in the Manchu-Language Archives (Université de Kyōto)