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