Bryan Kristopher Miller Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 3641 686-742 [email protected]

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Research Associate: Faculty of History, University of Oxford (Nomadic Empires Project) 2015-2019 Research Fellow: Gerda Henkel Foundation (Research Fellowship) 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (at Bonn University) 2011-2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: American Center for Mongolian Studies/Henry Luce Foundation 2010-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor: Rowan University, History Department 2009-2010 Adjunct Professor: State University of New York – FIT, Art History Department Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant: University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2005-2006 Research Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles, Art History Department 1997-2000 Teaching Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles, Institute of Archaeology 2000 Teaching Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles, East Asian Studies Department 1998 Research Assistant: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Antiquities Department 1998-1999

ACADEMIC EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2009 Dissertation: Power Politics in the Xiongnu Empire Committee: Paul Goldin, Nicola Di Cosmo, Bryan Hanks, Victor Mair; Nancy Steinhardt M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2000 Thesis: The Han Iron Industry: Historical Archaeology of Ancient Production Systems Committee: Lothar von Falkenhausen, David Schaberg, Charles Stanish Ex., National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Russian Language Department 2002-2004 Ex., Duke Study in China Program, Capital Normal University/Nanjing University 1996 B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, Archaeology & East Asian Studies (Dean’s List) 1997

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS Research Affiliate: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Dept. Archaeology 2017-Present Consulting Scholar: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Asian Section 2009-Present

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Waitt Fieldwork Grant: National Geographic Society (Emergence of Urbansim in Inner Asia) 2015 Research Fellowship: Gerda Henkel Foundations (Cohesion and Centrality in the Xiongnu Empire) 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2011-2014 Book Publication Subsidy Grants: Silkroad Foundation (Xiongnu Archaeology) 2011 (With Ursula Brosseder) Gerda Henkel Foundation (Xiongnu Archaeology) 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: American Center for Mongolian Studies 2010-2011 Funded by Henry Luce Foundation Conference Organization Grant: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania 2009 With Nancy S. Steinhardt Conference Organization Grant: Silkroad Foundation (for Xiongnu Archaeology) 2008 With Ursula Brosseder Doctoral Research Fellowship: American Council of Learned Societies 2007-2008 Funded by Henry Luce Foundation Fieldwork Project Grant: Silkroad Foundation (for Khovd Archaeology Project) 2007-10 Dean’s Award: University of Pennsylvania 2007 US-Mongolia Field Research Fellowship: American Center for Mongolian Studies 2006 Graduate Fellowship (full): Louis J. Kolb Society, University of Pennsylvania Museum 2006-2009 Foreign Language and Area Studies – Title VI: University of Pennsylvania 2005-2006 Foreign Language and Area Studies – Title VI: University of Pennsylvania 2004-2005 Ben Franklin Fellowship (full): University of Pennsylvania (awarded four years of support) 2004-2008 Tuition Fellowship (full): University of California, Los Angeles 1998-1999 Tuition Fellowship (partial): Washington University in St. Louis 1993-1997

RESEARCH & FIELDWORK

Kherlen Archaeology Project on Steppe Urbanism: Principal Investigator 2015-2018 With Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan (collaboration with National Museum of Mongolia)

Early Neolithic Settlements in Vráble, Southeast Slovakia: Geomagnetic Prospection: Surveyor Mar 2014 Martin Furholt (CAU-Kiel) and Ivan Cheben (Inst. Archaeology, Slovakia Nat. Acad. Sciences)

Khovd Archaeology Project on Imperial Frontiers: Principal Investigator 2007-2010 With Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan (collaboration with National Museum of Mongolia)

Khovd Archaeology Survey: Principal Investigator 2006 With Diimaajav Erdenebaatar (Ulaanbaatar University)

Khanuy Valley Project: Field Director 2002-2005 Francis Allard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) and Diimaajav Erdenebaatar (Ulaanbaatar University) PUBLICATIONS BOOKS

Xiongnu Archaeology – Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the First Steppe Empire in Central Asia. 2011. U. Brosseder and B.K. Miller (Eds.), Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, vol.5. Bonn: VFG-Arch Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series. 2019. Antoine Fages, Kristian Hanghøj, Naveed Khan, ... B.K. Miller ... Alan K. Outram, Pablo Librado, Ludovic Orlando*. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049.

Proto-Urban Establishments in Inner Asia: Surveys of an Iron Age Walled Site in Eastern Mongolia. 2019. B.K. Miller*, M. Furholt, J. Bayarsaikhan, L. Brandtstätter, T. Tüvshinjargal, J. Wright, T. Wunderlich, Ts. Ayush. Journal of Field Archaeology 44.4: 267-286.

Stone Lines and Burnt Bones: Ritual Elaborations in the Xiongnu Steppe Empire. 2018. B.K. Miller*, C. Makarewicz, J. Bayarsaikhan, T. Tüvshinjargal. Antiquity 92(365): 1310-1328.

Xiongnu “Kings” and the Political Order of the Steppe Empire. 2014. B.K. Miller. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 57.1:1-43.

Beasts of the North: Global and Local Dynamics as Seen in Horse Ornaments of the Steppe Elite. 2013. B.K. Miller and U. Brosseder. Asian Archaeology 1: 95-113.

Vehicles of the Steppe Elite: Chariots and Carts in Xiongnu Tombs. 2012. B.K. Miller. The Silk Road 10: 29-38.

Xiongnu Monuments of Shombuuzyn Belchir. 2011. J. Bayarsaikhan, B.K. Miller, Ts. Egiimaa, P.B. Konovalov, E. Johannesson, M. Machicek, J. Logan, C. Neily. Nüüdelchdiin öv sudlal 11: 156-183. [in Mongolian].

Seven Radiocarbon Dates for Xiongnu Burials in Western and Central Mongolia. 2011. U. Brosseder, B.K. Miller, J. Bayarsaikhan, Ts. Odbaatar. Nüüdelchdiin öv sudlal 11: 234-240.

Xiongnu Constituents in the High Mountains – Results of the Mongol-American Khovd Archaeology Project, 2008. 2009. B.K. Miller, J. Bayarsaihan, P.B. Konovalov, Ts. Egiimaa, J. Logan, M. Machicek. The Silk Road 7: 8-20.

Some questions on ritual structures and systems of Xiongnu graves. 2008. J. Bayarsaikhan and B.K. Miller. Nüüdelchdiin öv sudlal 8: 115-125. [in Mongolian].

A Xiongnu Tomb Complex: Excavations at Gol Mod 2 Cemetery (Mongolia, 2002-05). 2008. B.K. Miller, F. Allard, D. Erdenebaatar, C. Lee. Arkheologicheskie Vesti 15: 55-70. [in Russian].

A Xiongnu cemetery found in Mongolia. 2002. F. Allard*, D. Erdenebaatar, B.K. Miller, N. Batbold. Antiquity 76: 637-8.

The First Emperor of Qin: Between Legend, Science and Nationalism. 2002. B.K. Miller. Stanford Journal of Archaeology vol.1. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/archaeology/journal/newdraft/miller/abstract.html. CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

Global Networks and Local Agents in the Iron Age Eurasian Steppe. 2018. U. Brosseder and B.K. Miller. In: N. Boivin and M. Frachetti (Eds.), Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, Exchange and ‘People Without History’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 162-183.

Sociopolitical Systems of the Xiongnu. 2017. B.K. Miller. In: N.N. Kradin (Ed.), Kochevye impirii evraziiskikh stepei: osobbennosti sotsial’noi dinamiki. Moscow: URRS. [in Russian].

Global Dynamics in Local Processes of Iron Age Inner Asia. 2017. B.K. Miller and U. Brosseder. In: T. Hodos (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization. New York: Routledge, 470-487.

The Xianbei Empire. 2016. B.K. Miller. In: J.M. MacKenzie (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Empire. Malden: Wiley- Blackwell.

The Donghu Tribal Confederation. 2016. B.K. Miller. In: J.M. MacKenzie (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Empire. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China: Navigating and Negotiating the Middle Ground. 2015. B.K. Miller. In: J. Bemmann, M. Schmauder (Eds.), Complexity of Interaction Along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millennium CE. Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology vol.6. Bonn: VFG-Arch Press, 127-198.

Mounted Warriors of the Xiongnu. 2012. U. Brosseder and B.K. Miller. In: J. Bemmann (Ed.), Steppenkrieger. Reiternomaden des 7.–14. Jahrhunderts aus der Mongolei. Begleitband zur Ausstellung „Steppenkrieger. Reiternomaden des 7.–14. Jahrhunderts aus der Mongolei“. Darmstadt: LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, 115-125. [in German].

State of Research and Future Directions of Xiongnu Studies. 2011. U. Brosseder and B.K. Miller. In: U. Brosseder, B.K. Miller (Eds.), Xiongnu Archaeology – Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the First Steppe Empire in Central Asia. Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, vol.5. Bonn: VFG-Arch Press, 19-34.

Permutations of Peripheries in the Xiongnu Empire. 2011. B.K. Miller. In: U. Brosseder, B.K. Miller (Eds.), Xiongnu Archaeology – Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the First Steppe Empire in Central Asia. Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, vol.5. Bonn: VFG-Arch Press, 559-578.

Elite Xiongnu Burials at the Periphery: Tomb Complexes at Takhiltyn-khotgor, Mongolian Altai. 2009. B.K. Miller, Zh. Baiarsaikhan, Ts. Egiimaa, P.B. Konovalov, J. Logan. In: J. Bemmann, H. Parzinger, E. Pohl, D. Tseveendorj (Eds.), Current Archaeological Research in Mongolia: Papers from the First International Conference on “Archaeological Research in Mongolia”. Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, vol.4. Bonn: VFG-Arch Press, 301- 314.

TRANSLATIONS

Excavations of Satellite Burial 30, Tomb 1 Complex, Gol Mod 2 Necropolis. 2011. D. Erdenebaatar, T.-O. Iderkhangai, B. Galbadrakh, E. Minzhiddorzh, S. Orgilbaiar. In: U. Brosseder, B.K. Miller (Eds.), Xiongnu Archaeology – Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the First Steppe Empire in Central Asia. Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, vol.5. Bonn: VFG-Arch Press, 303-314. [from Mongolian]

REVIEWS Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Kim et al. 2017). 2018. B.K. Miller. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.09.58. http://www.bmcreview.org/2018/09/20180958.html.

The Hunter, The Stag, and the Mother of Animals: Image, Monument, and Landscape in Ancient Northern Asia (Jacobson-Tepfer 2015). 2016. B.K. Miller. The Silk Road 14: 237-240.

MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED

A Tale of Two Xiongnus: Adaptive Political Culture and the Many Faces of Hunnic Regimes. Forthcoming 2020. B.K. Miller. In: P. von Rummel and R. Payne (Eds.), The Huns between Central Asia, The Near East, and Europe: The Archaeology of Nomadic Imperialism, circa 100-600 CE. Berlin: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

Early Pastoral Economies and Herding Transitions in Eastern Eurasia. Accepted. W. Taylor*, J. Clark, J. Bayarsaikhan, T. Tüvshinjargal, J. Thompson Jobe, W. Fitzhugh, R. Kortum , R. Spengler, S. Shnaider, F. Seersholm, I. Hart, N. Case, S. Wilkin, J. Hendy, U. Thuering, B. Miller, A. Ventresca Miller, A. Picin, N. Vanwezer, F. Irmer, S. Brown, A. Abdykanova, D. Shultz, V. Pham, K. Douka, E. Jones, N. Boivin. Nature: Scientific Reports.

Dairy pastoralism drove Eastern Eurasian steppe expansions. Accepted. S. Wilkin*, W. Taylor, A. Ventresca Miller, B.K. Miller, R. Hagan, F. Irmer, M. Bleasdale, A. Scott, S. Gankhuyag, C. Trachsel, J. Grossmann, M. Horton, E. Myagmar, N. Boivin, C. Warinner, J. Hendy. Nature: Ecology & Evolution.

An Imagined History? Circular Arguments of Nomadism in Central Eurasian Archaeology. Accepted. R. N. Spengler III*, A. R. Ventresca Miller, T. Schmaus, G. Motuzaite-Matuzevicuite, B.K. Miller, S. Wilkin, W. Taylor, A. Haruda, P. Roberts, N. Boivin. Current Anthropology.

Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Nomadic Mongolian Empires. In Review. S. Wilkin*, A. Ventresca Miller, B.K. Miller, R. Spengler, W. Taylor, R. Fernandes, R. Hagan, M. Bleasdale, E. Myagmar, N. Boivin, P. Roberts. Nature: Scientific Reports.

Pastoralists as ecosystem engineers in Eurasia. In Review. A. Ventresca Miller*, A. Haruda, B.K. Miller, R. Spengler, S. Wilkin, P. Roberts, P. Roberts, N. Boivin. The Anthropocene.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire. B.K. Miller [under contract for Oxford University Press; book manuscript to be submitted July 2019]

Connecting and Creating Worlds: Mobilities of Peoples in Pre-Modern Central Eurasia. B.K. Miller. [chapter solicited for C. Antunes & E. Tagliocozzo (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Global Migration]

Composite bow construction of Iron Age nomads. B.K. Miller*, S. Brown*, J. Bayarsaikhan, M. Reisinger, N. Boivin, K. Douka. [analyses complete; for submission to Antiquity].

Garments of Mummified Children in Western Mongolia: ZooMS applictions to ancient leather fragments. B.K. Miller*, S. Brown*, J. Bayarsaikhan, K. Pearson, C. Neily, N. Boivin, K. Douka. [analyses complete; for submission to Nature] Chinese silks in the Xiongnu steppe empire, from rulers to chiefs. K. Pearson*, B.K. Miller*, J. Bayarsaikhan, C. Neily, S. Schirmer, N. Boivin. [analyses complete; for submission to PNAS]

Economies of Cloth: Silk and Wool Textiles as Bulk Luxuries in Inner Asia. B.K. Miller [for submission to Journal of Archaeological Research].

A 6,000 year genetic history of Eurasia’s Eastern Steppe. C. Jeong*, K. Wang, S. Wilkin, W. Taylor, B. Miller, T. Tuvshinjargal, R. Stahl, C. Chiovelli, N. Boivin, E. Myagmar, J. Hendy, C. Warinner. [analyses complete; for submission to Nature].

Cultivating a Nomadic Identity: Divergence of Politics and Lifeways in Early Iron Age Eurasia. B.K. Miller and A.R. Ventresca Miller. [for submission to Journal of World History special volume on “Culture Contact” edited by Anke Hein].

The Valley as the City: Extended Pastoral Urbanism in Iron Age Inner Asia. B.K. Miller and G. Eregzen. [for submission to Journal of World Prehistory special volume on “Steppe Urbanism” edited by B.K. Miller and J.A. Johnson].

The Archaeology of Pastoral Urbanism: Investigating Centers of Social, Economic, and Political Activity in the Eurasian Steppe. J.A. Johnson and B.K. Miller. [for submission to Journal of World Prehistory special volume on “Steppe Urbanism” edited by B.K. Miller and J.A. Johnson].

PUBLICATIONS OF ANALYZED PROJECT MATERIALS

Beyond the Great Wall: Gold of the Silk Roads and the First Empire of the Steppes. 2012. M. Radtke, I. Reiche, U. Reinholz, H. Riesenmeier, M.F. Guerra. Analytical Chemistry 12 December 2012. [included gold samples from Khovd Archaeology Project]

Origins of Equine Dentistry. 2018. W. Taylor, J. Bayarsaikhan, T. Tuvshinjargal, S. Bender, M. Tromp, J. Clark, K.B. Lowry, J.-L. Houle, D. Staszewski, J. Whitworth, W. Fitzhugh, N. Boivin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721189115. [included horse remains from Khovd Archaeology Project]

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATIONS The Art & Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Symposium in Honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles) Jun 2019 With Anke Hein (Oxford University) and Rowan Flad (Harvard University)

Redefining Configurations of Urban Settings: Centers of Social and Economic Activity in the Steppe Panel organized for Society for East Asian Archaeology Conference, Ulaanbaatar Jun 2014 Panel organized for European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Istanbul Sep 2014

Networks Approaches and Applications in Inner Asian Archaeology (Bonn University) Jul 2013 With Ursula Brosseder

Uyghur Archaeology (University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia) May 2009 With Nancy S. Steinhardt International Conference on Xiongnu Archaeology (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Oct 2008 With Ursula Brosseder, National Museum of Mongolia and Institute of Archaeology of Mongolian Academy of Sciences

INVITED LECTURES Consuming the Herds: The Functions of Animal Offerings in Mortuary Realms of the Xiongnu Jun 2019 [for workshop The Art & Archaeology of Ritual and Economy of East Asia] University of California, Los Angeles

The Cup is Mightier than the Sword: Conflict Mediation and Consensus Making Nov 2018 in the Xiongnu Nomadic Empire [for workshop Premodern Rulers between Conflict and Consensus: the Potential for (In)Stability] University of Bonn, Macht und Herrschaft SFB Group

The Valley as the City: Extended Pastoral Urbanism in the Xiongnu Steppe Empire Nov 2017 University of Bristol, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology

Globalized Consumption: Redressing Chinese Materials in Steppe Societies Feb 2017 Universiteit Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology

All are Xiongnu: The Performance of Empire in Inner Asia Jan 2017 Columbia University, Anthropology Department Franz Boas Lecture Series

Adaptive Political Culture in the ‘Hunnic’ Regimes Dec 2016 [for workshop The Huns: Central Asia, The Near East & Europe] German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin

A Small Steppe World: The Centrality of Barbarian Elites in Eurasian Networks of Exchange Nov 2016 University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium

Noble Nomads: The Role of Peripheral Pastoral Polities in Making the Xiongnu Empire Nov 2016 Oxford University Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture, UK

Configurations of Steppe Urbanism: Permanent Centers of Pastoral Polities in Mongolia Oct 2015 Cambridge University, UK

Navigating and Negotiating the Middle Ground: Cultural Politics in the Frontier Oct 2014 Between the Xiongnu and Han empires German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin

Between the Steppe and the Silk Road: The Western Frontier of the Xiongnu Empire June 2014 [in Chinese, 草原与丝路之间: 匈奴帝国西部边疆遗存] Center for Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun

Globalization and Socialization in Local Processes of the Xiongnu Empire. May 2013 German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin

Peripheral Elites and Prestige Goods of the Xiongnu Empire Mar 2013 [in Chinese, 匈奴帝国边疆贵族与声望品] Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology in Beijing. Peoples Between Narratives: Social Orders and Cultural Politics in Early Imperial East Asia. Oct 2012 Louis J. Kolb Society Colloquium. University Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia.

Mobile Communities and Archaeological Analyses of Ancient Steppe Polities. Nov 2011 American Center for Mongolian Studies Speaker Series, Ulaanbaatar.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Objects of Action and the Practice of Empire in Xiongnu Inner Asia Apr 2018 Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology. Washington DC.

Empires of Mobilities Jan 2017 Annual Conference of the American Historical Association. Denver.

Nodes, Networks & Spatial Politics: The Xiongnu Nomadic Empire and June 2015 the Eurasian Global Order Inaugural Conference of ‘Global Nodes, Global Orders’ Leverhulme International Network Oxford University, Oxford UK

Cultural Mediations and Disembeded Centers of the Han Chinese Frontier Jan 2014 Crimea: Integration – Acculturation - Confrontation. LandesMuseum, Bonn

Globalization and Socialization at the Periphery of the Xiongnu Empire Jun 2013 Between Nomad and Sedentary Cultures: New Perspectives in Inner Asian Archaeology. Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Modeling Inner Asian Empires: Spatial and Networks Approach to Complex Political Systems. Oct 2012 4th Eurasian Archaeology Conference. Cornell University, Ithaca

Negotiating the Frontier: Cultural Politics and the Southern Xiongnu. Political Strategies of Identity Building in Non-Han Empires in China. Jun 2012 Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Toronto. Mar 2012 International Conference on the Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone Feb 2012 in the First Millennium AD. Bonn.

Exotic Materials and Power Politics in the Xiongnu Empire. International Conference on Xiongnu Archaeology. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Oct 2008 East Asian Archaeology Forum lecture series, Boston University Dec 2009

Historical Archaeological Approaches to Uyghur Studies. May 2009 Uyghur Archaeology Conference. University of Pennsylvania.

Accompaniment and Consumption in Mortuary Offerings of the Xiongnu Nomadic Elite May 2008 Theoretical Archaeology Group in session “Ritual Killing (humans, animals, objects)”, Columbia University, New York.

"Those Who Follow in Death": Accompanying Burials in Xiongnu Mortuary Practice. Jun 2008 4th International Congress of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Beijing, China. Elite Xiongnu burials at the periphery: Excavations at Tahilt cemetery, Khovd aimag. Aug 2007 International Conference on Archaeological Research in Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar.

Tomb Complexes of the Xiongnu Elite: Excavations at Gol Mod 2 Cemetery (2002-05). Jun 2006 “History and Tradition of Mongolian Statehood” conference in honor of the 800th Anniversary of the Great Mongolian State. Ulaanbaatar.

Ritual Practices and Practitioners. Apr 2006 Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology. San Juan.

Rulers of the Steppes. Feb 2006 15th Annual Graduate Student Conference of East Asian Studies. Columbia University, New York.

Defining the Xiongnu Empire. Apr 2005 2nd Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. University of Chicago.

Xiongnu Tomb Complexes. Jun 2004 3rd International Congress of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Daejeon, Korea.

Becoming Qin: Imperial Formation in Early China. Apr 2001 Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans (on panel “Archaeological Manifestations of Empires” organized Prof. Bradley Parker).

The First Emperor of Qin: Between Legend, Science and Nationalism. Feb 2001 “Narrative Pasts/Past Narratives,” 1st Annual Conference of the Stanford Archaeology Program.

Administration and Management in the Han Iron Industry. Jul 2000 2nd International Congress of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Durham, England.

TEACHING Rowan University, History Department Empires of East Asia Spring 2010 Chinese Cultural History Spring 2010 Historical Methods Fall 2009, Spring 2010 Western Civilization I: Ancient World to 1600 Fall 2009 State University of New York – FIT, Art History Department East Asian Art History Spring 2009 Indian Art History Spring 2009 University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Japanese Civilization (Teaching Assistant for Linda Chance) Spring 2006 Chinese Civilizations (Teaching Assistant for Grant Alger) Fall 2005 East Asian Art and Civilizations (Teaching Assistant for Nancy Steinhardt) Fall 2005 University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology Department Archaeological Field Methodology (Teaching Assistant for Thomas Wake) Spring 2000 University of California, Los Angeles, East Asian Studies Department Chinese Civilization (Teaching Assistant for Chou Hung-hsiang) Fall 1998

SERVICE: ADVISING Colleen O’Shea: M.A. Field Research Fellowship, American Center for Mongolian Studies Summer 2010 “On-Site Materials Conservation in Mongolia” [Fellowship Advisor]

SERVICE: PEER REVIEW Asian Perspectives National Science Foundation (NSF) Archaeological Research in Asia National Geographic Society (NGS) Journal of Field Archaeology Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Nature: Scientific Reports Bryn Mawr Classical Review

LANGUAGES English: Native German: Intermediate [B1] Chinese (Mandarin): Fluent Chinese (Classical): Advanced Mongolian: Intermediate Russian: Intermediate Reading French: Intermediate Reading Japanese: Intermediate Reading

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Cluster 6 Society for American Archaeology Society for East Asian Archaeology American Center for Mongolian Studies American Historical Association Association for Asian Studies