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  • Chengdu City Institute of Archaeology
  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology
  • Fudan University, Department of Archaeology
  • Gansu Provincial Institute of Archaeology
  • Indiana University Department of Anthropology
  • Institute for Field Research
  • Lanzhou University Key Institute of Environmental Research
  • Peking University Department of Archaeology and Museology
  • Sichuan University Department of Archaeology
  • University of California, Los Angeles

Post-Doctoral / Visiting Scholar Host

  • HE Xiaoge 何晓歌 (Peking University, 2024-2027)
  • Ken’ichi SASAKI (Meiji University, Spring 2024)
  • Andreas NYMARK (Carlsberg Foundation Grant, 2022-2024)
  • LI Yue 李悦 (Northwest University, China, Harvard-Yenching Coordinate Researcher, 2022-2023)
  • ZHOU Zhenyu 周振宇 (CASS, IOA, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023)
  • WANG Shuli 王舒俐 (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2021-2022) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • LIN Kueichen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2020-2021)
  • FAN Jianan (Short-term Visiting Scholar from Sichuan University, 2019)
  • LI Haichao 黎海超 (Sichuan University, Fairbank Visiting Scholar, 2019-2020)
  • QU Tongli 曲彤丽 (Peking University, Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2019-2020)
  • ZHAI Shaodong (CASS, IOA, Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2019-2020)
  • ZHANG Wenjie 张闻捷 (Xiamen University, Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2019-2020)
  • CHEN Youcheng 陈宥成 (Capital Normal University Fellowship, 2019-2020)
  • Kasper HANUS (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Polish National Science Centre Fellowship, 2019-2020)
  • YAGI Hiroaki 八木宏明 (Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2018-2019) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • GE Yun 葛韵 (CASS, IOA, Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2018-2019) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • JI Youngbae 지영배 / 池 榮培 (Pusan University, Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2018-2019) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • PARK Jiyoung 박지영 / 朴芝榮 (Seoul National University, Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2018-2019) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • WANG Yifan 王一帆 (Shandong University, Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2018-2019) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • WEN Yadi 温雅棣 (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2018-2019) [Co-Host with William Fash]
  • LI Yinghua 李英华 (Wuhan University, Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2018-2019)
  • LYU Peng 吕鹏 (CASS, IOA, Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2018-2019) [Primary Host: Richard Meadow]
  • HE Xiaolin 何晓琳 (Wuhan University Fellowship, 2018-2019)
  • YANG Eungyeung 양은경 (Pusan University Fellowship, 2018-2019)
  • ZHANG Changping  张昌平 (Wuhan University Fellowship, Fall 2018)
  • ZOU Qiushi 邹秋实 (Wuhan University, CSC Fellowship, 2017-2018)
  • DUAN Yuanyuan 段媛媛 (Sun Yat-Sen University Fellowship, 2017-2018) [Co-Host with Mark Byington]
  • XU Jian 徐堅 (Sun Yat-sen University, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018)
  • Mark BYINGTON (Harvard University Department of Anthropology Associate, 2016-2020)
  • FENG Yue 冯玥 (Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2016-2017)
  • LI Moran 李默然 (Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2016-2017)
  • LONG Xiao 龙啸 (Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2016-2017)
  • ZHONG Hua 钟华 (Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2016-2017)
  • YANG Lin  杨琳 (Harvard-Yenching Mesoamerican Archaeology Training Program, 2016-2017)
  • LIU Yiting 刘 一婷 (Sun Yat-Sen University, CSC Fellowship, 2016-2017) [Primary Host: Richard Meadow]
  • WANG Yang 王洋 (Sun Yat-Sen University Fellowship, 2016-17)
  • REN Lele 任乐乐 (CSC Fellowship, 2016-17)
  • Brian LANDER (Harvard Center for the Environment Fellow, 2015-17)
  • ZHU Ping 朱萍 (CSC Fellowship, 2015-16)
  • Kate BRUNSON 博凯龄 (Fairbank Center Fellow, 2015-16)
  • Ling-yu HUNG 洪玲玉 (Fairbank Center Fellow, 2015-16)
  • LI Shuicheng 李水城 (Harvard-Yenching Coordinate Researcher, 2015)
  • CAO Bin 曹斌 (CSC Fellowship, 2015)
  • ZHANG Jianping 张健平 (CSC Fellowship, 2015)
  • JIN Guiyun 靳桂云 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2013-14)
  • YANG Qian 杨谦 (Harvard-Yenching Fellow, 2013-14)
  • Minkoo KIM (Chungnam University Visiting Scholar, 2013-14)
  • ZHENG Junlei 郑君雷 (Jilin University Visiting Scholar, 2013)
  • Felix RIEDE (Arhus University Visiting Scholar, 2013)
  • Yangjin PAK 朴洋震 (Chungnam University Visiting Scholar, 2012-13)
  • WU Chunming 吴春明 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2012-13)
  • ZHANG Changping 张昌平 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2012-13)
  • WEI Qiaowei 魏峭巍 (Harvard-Yenching Fellow, 2011-12)
  • YANG Eungyeung 양은경 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2011-12)
  • WANG Minghui 王明辉 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2010-11)
  • Pochan CHEN  陳伯楨 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2010-11)
  • ZHANG Wenjie 张闻捷 (CSC Fellow, 2010-11)
  • YANG Zhefeng 杨哲峰 (Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellow at Harvard, 2010)
  • PARK Sun-mi 朴宣美 (Korea Institute Fellow, 2010)
  • MA Xiaolin 马萧林 (Anthropology Department Affiliate, 2009-10; secondary sponsor)
  • WU Xiaohong 吴小红 (Anthropology Department Affiliate, 2009-10)
  • LÜ Hongliang 吕红亮 (Harvard-Yenching Scholar, 2009-2010)
  • LI Zhipeng 李志鹏 (Luce / ACLS Scholar, 2008-09)
  • QU Tongli 曲彤丽 (Joint Training Program: Peking University-Harvard University) [Primary Host: Ofer Bar-Yosef]
  • YUAN Jing 袁靖 (Harvard-Yenching Coordinate Researcher, 2007)
  • Pochan CHEN 陳伯楨 (Associated Scholar, Department of Anthropology, 2007)
  • ZHU Jiping 朱继平 (Luce / ACLS Scholar, 2006-07)
  • WU Xiaohong 吴小红 (Harvard-Yenching Coordinate Researcher, 2006)
  • SHAO Wangping 邵望平 (Associated Scholar, Department of Anthropology, 2006-08)

Ph.D. Thesis Committees [Primary Advisees in Bold]

  • Kristen PEARSON, Entered PhD program in 2019. Harvard University, Department of Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. [Chair] PhD Prospectus: “Hide and Fiber Crafts in Nomadic Inner Asia: An Archaeological Ethnography”
  • Veronica PETERSON 孙美华, Entered PhD program in 2019. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Co-Chair with Matt Liebmann] PhD Prospectus: “Taking Care: Home Cooking and Cooking for Community in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chinese Diaspora”
  • Jack BISHOP, Entered PhD program in 2019. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member]
  • SU Xin 苏昕, Entered PhD program in 2018. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair] PhD Prospectus: “Stone resources and society: Lithic production and circulation in the Jianghan Area from 1600 to 1100 BC”
  • ALLSHOUSE, Aurora F. , Entered PhD program in 2017. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] PhD Prospectus: “Differentiated Cuisines: Investigating the relationship between food and identity in the Bronze Age Aegean”
  • ZHANG Chengrui 张成睿, Entered PhD program in 2017. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair] PhD Prospectus: ”Human-animal interactions in Bronze Age pastoral societies in northwest China during the first millennium BCE”
  • Jonathan THUMAS, Entered PhD program in 2017. Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. [Committee Member]
  • Alex KIM, Entered PhD program in 2015.  Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D Prospectus: “Genome-wide archaeogenetics of Central Siberia and the reassembly of the northern world.”
  • Katherine ROSE, Entered PhD program in 2013.  Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Prospectus: “Space, Culture, and Death: An anthropological comparison of Nubian and Egyptian mortuary landscapes”.  
  • Dalyn GRINDLE,  PhD Conferred Spring 2023. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Co-Chair with Richard Meadow] PhD Thesis: “Hunting-as-Herding: Conversations with Elk, Elk People and their Joined Social Worlds as a Window in to NonHuman Animal Management and Relational Domestication.”
  • Alexis HARTFORD, Entered PhD program in 2013.  Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D Prospectus: “From the State to the Home: Public and Private Ritual Practices at Teotihuacan, Mexico” [Left Program in 2022]
  • Ziliang “Alex” LIU, PhD conferred Spring 2022. Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture. [Committee Member] PhD Thesis: “Art of Changes: Material Imagination in Early China, c. Third to First Century BCE.”
  • Jada Wing-Tung KO 高颖彤, PhD Conferred in Spring 2022. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair] PhD Thesis: “The Politics of Ecological Memory: Changes in Human-Animal Relationships from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the Middle Huai River Valley, Anhui Province, China.” 
  • Eric JOHNSON, PhD conferred Spring 2021. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] PhD Thesis: “An Archaeology of Settler Capitalism: Industrialization, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Shell Beads between New Jersey and the Plains, 1750–1900.”
  • Zoë Antoinette EDDY, Ph.D. conferred Spring 2019. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Co-Chair with Ted BESTOR] Ph.D. Thesis: “When God Was A Keychain: Commercial Goods and Ainu Indigeneity in Hokkaido, Japan.”
  • Jon CLINDANIEL, Ph.D. conferred Spring 2019. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Toward a Grammar of the Inka Khipu: Investigating the Production of Non-numerical Signs.” 
  • Edward ALLEN, Left Program in 2018.  Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. [Prospectus Committee Member] (PhD student at Shanghai University)
  • Ari CARAMANICA, Ph.D. conferred Spring 2018. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member]. Ph.D. Thesis: “Land, Labor, and Water of the Ancient Agricultural Pampa de Mocan, North Coast, Peru.” (College Fellow, Harvard University; Professor, Universidad del Pacifico)
  • Andrew WOMACK 吴浩森, Ph.D. conferred Fall 2017. Yale University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Crafting Community: Exploring Identity and Interaction through Ceramics in late Neolithic and early Bronze Age Northwestern China.” (Lecturer, McGill University; Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University; Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto)
  • Chris FOSTER 傅希明, Ph.D. conferred Fall 2017. Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Study of the Cang jie pian: Past and Present.” (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oxford University)
  • Yitzchak JAFFE 哈克, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2016. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair] Ph.D. Thesis: “Negotiating the frontier- uncovering regional variation in the Western Zhou expansion (1046-771 BCE).” (Visiting Assistant Professor, NYU-ISAW; Assistant Professor, Haifa University).
  • Max PRICE, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2016. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Pigs and Power: The Evolution of Swine Husbandry Practices and Social Complexity in Northern Mesopotamia from the Late Neolithic through the Early Bronze Age (ca. 6500-2100 cal. BC).” (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kiel University; Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Nathaniel ERB-SATULLO, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2016. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “The Rise of Iron in the Land of the Golden Fleece: Metal Production in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Colchis.” (Lecturer, Oxford University)
  • Bridget ALEX, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2016. Harvard University, Departments of Human Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology (Ad Hoc Degree). [Prospectus Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Establishing Contexts of Encounters between Neanderthals and Modern Humans.”  (College Fellow, Harvard University).
  • Dylan CLARK, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2016. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Living on the Edge: The Residential Spaces, Social Organization and Dynamics of Isla Cerritos, an Ancient Maya Port Community.” (Program Director, InHerit, University of North Carolina).
  • Bastien, VAROUTSIKOS, Ph.D. conferred, Spring 2015. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in South Caucasus: Cultural Transitions and Technology transfers.” (Post-Doctoral Fellow, CNRS France; Director of Development, ICONEM).
  • Philip JOHNSTON, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2015. Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “The Economy of Western Andalusia During the Phoenician Colonization, 800-550 BC.”
  • LAM Wengcheong 林永昌, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2015. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair] Ph.D. Prospectus: “Production of commodity and iron economy in Early China: a case study of a Western Han iron workshop at Taicheng, China.” (Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Joshua WALTON, PhD. conferred Spr. 2015. Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “The Regional Economy of Southern Levant in the 8th-7th Centuries BCE.” (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Askelon Excavations, Harvard University; Lecturer, Capital University)
  • Marta SOBUR. Left Program in 2014. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Prospectus: “South-eastern Arabian Subsistence Economy. Archaeomalacological analysis of coastal adaptation in the United Arab Emirates from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.” (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Oregon State University)
  • Nawa SUGIYAMA, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2014. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D. Thesis: “Animals and Sacred Mountains: How Ritualized Performances Materialized State-Ideologies at Teotihuacan, Mexico.” (Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside)
  • WEI Qiaowei 魏峭巍, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2013. Shandong University, Department of Archaeology. [Collaborating Professor]. Ph.D. Thesis: “Social Change at North Shandong Region during Shang and Zhou Period: Focusing on the Theory of Practice in Archaeology.” (Associate Professor, Shanghai University)
  • Jade D’Alpoim GUEDES 玳玉, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2013. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair] Ph.D. Thesis: “Adaptation and Invention during the Spread of Agriculture to Southwest China.” (Tenured Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego)
  • Allison R. MILLER, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2011. Harvard University, Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilization and History of Art and Architecture. [Committee Member]  Ph.D. Thesis: “Rock-cut Tombs and the Formation of the Western Han Imperial State.” (Tenured Associate Professor, Southwestern University)
  • Carrie BREZINE, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2011. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Committee Member] Ph.D Thesis: “Dress, Technology and Identity in Colonial Peru.” (Administrator, University of Michigan)
  • Roderick CAMPBELL 江雨德, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2007. Harvard University, Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilization and Anthropology. [Co-Chair with Michael PUETT]  PhD. Thesis: “Blood, Flesh, and Bones: Violence, Food, and Kinship in the Social Economy of the Late Shang.”  (Tenured Associate Professor at NYU, ISAW)
  • Barbara SMITH, Ph.D. conferred Spr. 2005. Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. [Chair]  PhD. Thesis: “The Affects of Agricultural Transition on Health and Morphology in Neolithic North China.”  (Adjunct Faculty, Chapman University)

M.A. Thesis Committees

  • Bhinna PARK, Entered Advising relationship in LAM program in 2023, Harvard University Extension Studies, Masters of Liberal Arts program [Chair].  MA Thesis: “The World’s Oldest Expressions: Using Universal Emotions to Reinterpret Prehistoric Cave Art”
  • ZHU Tianrui 朱天瑞, Entered MA program in 2022. Harvard University, Regional Studies East Asia [Chair]. MA Thesis: “The origin of glass-making technology in China, 1st millennium BCE”
  • SHEN Jie 沈劼, Entered MA program in 2018. Harvard University, Regional Studies East Asia. [Chair] MA Thesis: “Typology of Basket Pattern - From a Technological Perspective”.
  • Ting-Yi WANG 王婷儀, MA conferred Spring 2018. Harvard University, Regional Studies East Asia. [Committee Member] MA Thesis: “The Representation of Battles in Pictorial Bronzes and Textual Sources”. 
  • Christopher KIM 金炯佑, MA conferred Spring 2017. Harvard University, Regional Studies East Asia [Pre-Thesis Advisor].
  • Spencer SMITH, MA conferred Fall 2016. MA Thesis: “A History of the “Sichuan” Peppercorn in Early China”.  Harvard University, Regional Studies East Asia [Chair].

Ph.D. Advisory Committee Member

  • Henry JACOBS (Inner Asian and Altaic Studies).
  • Wing In (Joyce) Ho, (Department of Anthropology).
  • Hei Chun (Percy) Ho, (Department of Anthropology).
  • Henry JACOBS (East Asian Languages and Civilizations).
  • Jonathan THUMAS (East Asian Languages and Civilization)
  • Dalyn GRINDLE (Anthropology)
  • Sarah LOOMIS (Anthropology)
  • Joe CRONIN (Anthropology)
  • Matthew MAGNANI (Anthropology)
  • Sadie WEBER (Anthropology)
  • Zoe EDDY (Anthropology)
  • Janis CALLEJA (Anthropology)
  • Max PRICE (Anthropology)
  • Nathanial Van VALKENBERG (Anthropology)
  • Vincent LEUNG (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
  • David UNGER (History of Science Department)

Undergraduate Thesis Advisees

  • Abagail CUSICK (Class of 2024). “Peruvian Fiber Arts in the Peabody Museum” [Chair]
  • Tess KELLY (Class of 2023). *Glynn Isaac Award Winner for Thesis: “Recollections of Collections: Value Judgements in Western Collectors’ Encounters with the Ainu” [Chair]
  • Hiroko KUMAKI (Class of 2011). *Hoopes Prize Winner for Thesis: “Ethnoarchaeological Research on the Historical Landscape Management of the Salineras de Maras”
  • Katherine BRUNSON (Class of 2008). *Hoopes Prize Winner for Thesis: “Shifting Animal Exploitation Stratgies in Late Neolithic China: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Longshan Culture Site of Taosi, Shanxi Province”
  • Jennifer GONG (Class of 2007). *Hoopes Prize Winner for Thesis: “Inequalities in Diet and Health During the Intensification of Agriculture in Neolithic China” [Chair]

 

Undergraduate Thesis Examination Committee Member

  • Kelli AQUINO (Class of 2022)
  • Mathilde RIBORDY (Class of 2020)
  • Norman STORER (Class of 2019)
  • Samantha NOH (Class of 2015)
  • Andrew LOREY (Class of 2013)
  • Andrew HAMM (Class of 2012)
  • Marissa GLYNIAS (Class of 2012)
  • Anne Forde LEVANDOWSKI (Class of 2009)
  • Anne AUSTIN (Class of 2006)
  • Ravikiran RAJU (Class of  2006)

Graduate Secondary Field Advisor (Archaeology)

  • Jonathan THUMAS (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
  • Henry GRUBER (History)

External PhD Examiner

  • Kasper HANUS – PhD Thesis: “Phenomenology of Water in the Oasis-Cities of the Silk Road in Xinjiang” – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) (Spring 2020)
  • A. Yasmeen HINEDI – PhD Thesis: “Influence of the Silk Road trade routes on the craniofacial morphology of populations in Central Asia” – Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Department of Anthropology (Spring 2018).
  • YANG Yishi 杨谊时 – PhD Thesis: “河西走廊事前生业模式转变及影响因素研究 The transition of human subsistence and it influencing factors during prehistoric times in the Hexi Corridor, Northwestern China” – Lanzhou University, Department of Geology (Spring 2017)
  • HUO Yuxia 霍玉侠– PhD Thesis: “树轮宽度记录的中国北疆地区气候变化研究 Tree-ring width records of past climate variability in Northern Xinjiang of China” – Lanzhou University, Department of Environmental Sciences (Spring 2017)
  • Dazhi CAO 曹大志 – PhD Thesis: “The Loess Highland in a Trading Network” – Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology (Spring 2014).
  • Xiangming DAI 戴向明 – PhD Thesis: “Craft Production, Settlement Patterns and development of Social Complexity in Southern Shanxi and Western Henan, China” – Latrobe University, Archaeology Program. (August  2005).