TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

CURRENT TEACHING AT OXFORD

Convenor of the Archaeology of Asia Stream

Postgraduate taught course options:

• Chinese Archaeology I: Palaeolithic to Bronze Age
• Chinese Archaeology: Shang to Qin
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chinese Ceramics
• Archaeology of Eurasia
• Contribution on Ceramic Technology within the MSc of Archaeological Science

I am happy to consider developing further options based on student interest, so please contact me if you have suggestions.

Undergraduate teaching

Lecturer for core papers:

• Honour Moderations- Introduction to World Archaeology
• FHS - Urbanisation and Change in Complex Societies
• Archaeological Sciences

Convenor for FHS option paper:

• FHS – Introduction to the archaeology of Early China

Convenor for object-handling sessions:

• Chinese Bronzes, Jades, and Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum 

SUPERVISION

I am currently accepting MSc and DPhil students. I am particularly interested in supervising work on ceramics research broadly speaking, but also a range of other topics in Chinese archaeology, including its history, but also more theoretical/methodological topics. Please get in touch if you are considering applying to do an MSc in Asian Archaeology or a DPhil in Asian Archaeology, or degree work on Chinese Archaeology or ceramic analysis.

Current supervisees and their research topics

DPhil students

• Evgenia Dammer: Technological transfer in production of Majiayao-style pottery between Neolithic communities in Northwest China
• Gao Xuyang: Good as gold: unravelling the complex meanings and origins of Zisha teapots in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
• Ken Ishikawa: The geographical and chronological contextualisation of Buddhist rock-cut caves during the Western Ksatrapa period in Gujarat
• Jiang Shengpeng: Using stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the diet during the 2nd millennium BC in the Hexi Corridor and the Tao River Valley, northwest China
• Jennifer Keute: What to Cook and How to Cook It: Understanding the interplay of subsistence, ceramic technology, and local environments in the emergence of pottery in Northeast Asia through ceramic residues
• Li Zihan: A techno-socioeconomic investigation of the Husi kiln complex in the middle Yangtze River Valley
• Shi Muyang: Development of complex spatial dynamics on the Late Neolithic Central Plains, China
• Zhang Yidan: Crossing Western China: Interregional Communication and Cultural Interaction between the Northwest and Southwest China from the Late Neolithic Age to the Early Bronze Age (5000BCE-1500BCE)
• Jean Hyun: The Mohe in Archaeology and History
• Danielle Hum: The “Taming” of the “Unpacified South”: changes in animal representations and burial customs during the Han expansion into Lingnan

MSc/MPhil students

• Li Yiying: A diachronic study of Neolithic pottery production at Dadiwan, Gansu Province 
• Miranda Stevens: TBD
• Chen Guopeng: The archaeology of archaeological research: how archaeological knowledge is taught and learned
• Zhu Shijie: Liangzhu social structure
• Xiong Shaobai: Resource-Driven Expansion: The Interaction between Zhou and Local Populations in the Jianghuai Region at Early Western Zhou Period
• Tanya Lee: Understanding Prehistoric Korea and Japan relations seen in the contact and exchange between Chulmun and Jomon societies
• Shi Lan: Magic, cosmology and the adorned body in Neolithic China - an investigation into the jade artefacts from Lingjiatan
• Melody Li: Towards a New Approach to Sensory Archaeology: Senses in Ancient China
• Chen Yuhao: Social organization and material culture at Erlitou and Liangzhu

Undergraduate students

• Jacob Berry: Sino-Roman relations

Former supervisees and their research topics

DPhil students

• Raphael Wong: Contacts and identities: pastoralist tombs of the 1st millennium BC in eastern Gansu and southern Ningxia in China (graduated 2019)

MSt/MPhil students

• Lucy Lollkova: Identities Felted, Woven, and Twined: Comparative Analysis of Late Prehistoric Cloth Cultures in Xinjiang, Uyghur Autonomous Region (graduated 2019)
• Liu Qianqian: The Study of Chinese Export Porcelain in the Context of the Establishment of English Porcelain Manufactories from the 17th to the 18th Century (graduated 2019)
• Shi Muyang: Walls for war? A comparative and multi-faceted approach to the function of walls in Neolithic China (graduated 2019)
• Yan Xiaoyuan: Porcelain in the Near East and China (graduated 2019)
• Li Zihan: Production Technology Research of Ge Kiln in the Song and Yuan Dynasty (graduated 2018)
• Wong Chi Tung: Cultural Diversity in the Nanyue Kingdom: Comparing Burial Traditions in Guangdong and Guangxi (graduated 2018)
• Wu Sum-yi: The maritime trading pattern of China with East Asian and Southeast Asia in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (graduated 2018)
• Kirstin Clouser: Majiayao, Qijia, and Xindian: Changes in Ceramic Production from the Neolithic through the Middle Bronze Age (graduated 2018)
• Zhang Meng: The Importance of Genetic Factors for Understanding the Domestication of Millet across Eurasia (graduated 2018)
• Yao Jingmin: The emergence and spread of jade cong in Neolithic China (graduated 2017)
• Xie Qiqing: The concept of ceramic style and its application to Tang period Changsha ware (graduated 2017)
• Huan Limin: Qijia Culture: What Can a Regional Study of the Upper Wei River Valley Tell Us? (graduated 2017)

Undergraduates

• Alexander Coombs: The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China as a Reflection of Concepts of Rulership (graduated 2019)