Faculty

Past PhD(s): Seung Kew Choi, Mrea Csorba, Ge Yan, Jiayao Han, Tsui-Mei Huang, Yu Jiang, Jian-jing Liu, Sheri Lullo, Penny Rode, Yan Sun, Leslie Wallace, Ying Wang, Jui-man Wu, Xiaolong Wu, Ying Yong; See a listing of Past PhDs for details

Constellation(s): Agency, Environment, Identity, Mobility/Exchange, Visual Knowledge

Katheryn M. Linduff joined the faculty in 1973 and specializes in Eurasian and East Asian Art history and archaeology and holds appointments in both HAA and Anthropology (in Archaeology) and has guided PhD students in both Art History and Archaeology. She is especially interested in the rise of complex society, and especially in the interplay of ethnic, cultural and gender identity with economic and political change in antiquity. Her study of early China and Inner Asia has led to many books and papers, the most recent of which include Monuments, Metals and Mobility: Trajectories of Complexity in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe, with Bryan Hanks (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Are All Warriors Male? Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe, with Karen S. Rubinson (AltaMira Press/Roman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc., 2008); The Beginnings of Metallurgy from the Urals to the Yellow Rivers, Katheryn M. Linduff (Mellen Press. 2004); Gender and Chinese Archaeology, AltaMira Press, 2004 [in English] 2006 [in Chinese]; The Emergence of Metallurgy in China, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

She has conducted a regional settlement survey in eastern Inner Mongolia (see: The Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Research Project, Regional Archaeology in Eastern Inner Mongolia: A Methodological Exploration. Science Press 2003) that aimed to reconstruct social and political organization across the region from the late Neolithic (c. 4000 BCE) through to about 200 CE.  Her current projects include a book Through the Looking Glass: Visualizing Place and Others in China, including sections on ‘Dynastic Leaders and Other Ethnics in Antiquity’; The Construction of Identity in the pre-Tang; Remaining Sogdian in China; Self-definition, the Wenji scrolls and the Song; a collaborative project on the Bronze Age of Dynastic China in the late Shang and Zhou and Interaction with their northern neighbors with Cao Wei and Sun Yan; and another collaborative project with Karen S. Rubinson on workshop practices, production and trade to and from China across Eurasia between 4th c. BCE and 2nd c. CE.