#  Collaborators & Students 

 



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**Collaborators - Individuals**

- [Jess BECK](http://www.jessbeck.org/)
- Gwen BENNETT
- [Katherine BRUNSON](https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/people/brunson.html)
- [Pochan CHEN](http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~anthro/english/member/faculty/chenpochan.htm)
- [Jade d'apoim GUEDES](https://jadeguedes.com/)
- [Lothar von FALKENHAUSEN](http://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/lothar-von-falkenhausen/)
- Edwin HAJIC
- [Laura HEATH-STOUT](https://www.lauraheathstout.com/)
- [Anke HEIN](https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/people/hein-anke)
- [TImothy HORSLEY](http://www.niu.edu/anthro/faculty_staff/faculty/horsley.shtml)
- [Lingyu HUNG](http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/lhung.shtml)
- [Yitzchak JAFFE](http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/visiting-research-scholars/yitzchak-jaffe)
- JIANG Zhanghua
- [JIN Guiyun ](https://harvard-yenching.org/scholars/jin-guiyun)靳桂云
- [Brian LANDER](https://www.brown.edu/academics/institute-environment-society/people/details/brian-lander)
- [LI Shuicheng](http://www.harvard-yenching.org/scholars/li-shuicheng) 李水城
- [LI Zhipeng](http://www.kaogu.cn/en/About_IA_CASS/Academic_departments/2013/1025/31849.html)
- [Joshua WRIGHT](/flad/)
- [WU Xiaohong](https://harvard-yenching.org/scholars/wu-xiaohong) 吴小红
- [WANG Hui](https://archsci.fudan.edu.cn/88/57/c16260a165975/page.htm) 王辉
- [Andrew WOMACK](https://stanford.academia.edu/AndrewWomack)
- [YUAN Jing](http://www.kaogu.cn/en/About_IA_CASS/Archaeologists/2013/1025/31830.html) 袁靖
- [ZHAO Zhijun](http://www.kaogu.cn/en/About_IA_CASS/Academic_departments/2013/1025/31849.html)
- ZHOU Jing 周静

**Collaborators - Insitutions**

- 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](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/chinaarch/people/zhang-changping) (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.](https://scholar.harvard.edu/aurora-allshouse/home) , 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**](https://scholar.harvard.edu/dalyn-grindle/home)**,**  **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](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/ziliang-liu-0), 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](https://scholar.harvard.edu/ericjohnson/home), 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](http://www.jonclindaniel.com/bio), 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](https://harvard.academia.edu/AriCaramanica), 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](https://stanford.academia.edu/AndrewWomack) 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](https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/profiles/dr-christopher-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](https://dmse.mit.edu/people/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](https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/people/erb-satullo-nathaniel), 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](https://scholar.harvard.edu/bridget-alex/home), 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](https://archaeology.sites.unc.edu/home/rla/staff/dylan-j-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](https://cnrs.academia.edu/BastienVaroutsikos), 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](https://harvard.academia.edu/PhilipJohnston), 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](https://harvard.academia.edu/joshuawalton), 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](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/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](https://anthropology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/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](https://shu-cn.academia.edu/QiaoweiWei) 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](https://www.southwestern.edu/live/profiles/25694-allison-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](http://archaeology.lsa.umich.edu/people/brezine.php), 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](https://harvard-yenching.org/scholars/wang-ting-yi) 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](http://ealac.columbia.edu/chris-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 ](https://cissr.uchicago.edu/research/2019-2010/dissertation-fellows/kumaki)(Class of 2011). \*Hoopes Prize Winner for Thesis: “Ethnoarchaeological Research on the Historical Landscape Management of the Salineras de Maras”
- [Katherine BRUNSON](https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/kbrunson/profile.html) (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](http://riversuh.com/) (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).