Lyce Jankowski


Lyce Jankowski is a numismatist, specialising in East Asia, and an art historian, specialising in Chinese material culture.

Career

Jankowski graduated in Classics, in Chinese, in Antiquity and in Art History.
Her studies of the contacts between Imperial Rome and Han China sparked an interest in numismatics. She studied Chinese numismatics with François Thierry, curator of the Asian coin collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France ; numismatics at the American Numismatic Society E. Newman seminar; Greek and Roman coinage in Paris with Olivier Picard and Michel Amandry; and Central Asian numismatics with Osmund Bopearachchi. For her PhD, she explored the social networks of coin collectors in 19th century China. The title was "Les cercles de collectionneurs et de numismates dans la région de Pékin durant la première moitié du XIXème siècle".
From 2014 to 2017 she was a fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford, and Sackler Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, where she curated the East Asian and subsequently Adjunct Professor in the Department of East Asian languages and civilizations.
In 2019 she became Curator of extra-European arts at the Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium.

Awards and honours