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Grants to Institutions

2009

New Faculty Position and Related Programming

University of Illinois at Chicago and The Field Museum, Chicago, IL—Southeast Asian Archaeology: Academic Training and Collaborative Research Partnership.(A four-year grant of $440,000.)
University of Wisconsin Foundation, Madison, WI—Asian Archaeology and Early History Initiative: University of Wisconsin-Madison. (A four-year grant of $425,000.)

2008

Collaborative Research

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA— Strengthening the Future of Southeast Asian Archaeology: Investigating the Prehistoric Settlement of the Mekong Middle Basin. (A four-year grant of $300,000.)
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO— Ancient Landscape, Settlements, and Emerging Complexity in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China. (A three-year grant of $300,000.)

New Faculty Position and Related Programming

Boston University, Boston, MA— A New East Asian Archaeology Curriculum for Boston University. (A four-year grant of $450,000.)
McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada— A New Historical Archaeology: Pre-Imperial and Imperial China. (A three-year grant of $430,000.)

2007

Collaborative Research

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada—Human and Social Dynamics of Early Bronze Age China: An Interdisciplinary Program. (A three-year grant of $240,000.)
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA—Understanding Lifeways and Biocultural Diversity in Prehistoric Japan. (A three-year grant of $275,000.)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL—Research Project on Early Chinese Excavated Texts. (A three-year grant of $275,000.)

New Faculty Position and Related Programming

University of Hawai’I Foundation, Honolulu, HI —Building and Maintaining Contacts: Enhancing Asian Archaeology, Training and Research at the University of Hawai’I at Manoa. (A four-year grant of $500,000.)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,Canada—Tenure-stream position in East Asian Archaeology. (A three-year grant of $475,000.)

2006

Collaborative Research

Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI—New Investigations into the Neolithic Cultures of Southeast China. (A three-year grant of $270,000.)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ—Defining the Paleolithic Presence on the Tibetan Plateau. (A three-year grant of $250,000.)

New Faculty Position and Related Programming

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA—Enhancing East Asian Archaeology at UCLA. (A four-year grant of $450,000.)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA—Southeast Asia Archaeological Research and Training Program. (A four-year grant of $470,000.)

Grants to Individuals

2009

Post Doctoral Fellowships (North America)

Eyre, Chureekamol— University of Pennsylvania Museum and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Prehistoric Local Systems in Central Thailand: Analysis of a Ceramic Subregion - Its Stylistic Patterns and Technology
Wang, Yudong— Union College (NY)
Buddhism and the Making of the Qoco Uighur Kingdom

Dissertation Fellowships (North America)

Calugay, Cyril— Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Complexity in the Islandscape: Social Organization and Development during the Early Second Millenium AD in the Visayas, Philippines
Carter, Alison— Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Trade, Exchange, and Socio-Political Development in Early Historic Cambodia: An Examination of Stone and Glass Beads
Gallon, Matthew— Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Archaeological Investigation of the Socio-political Organization of a First Millennium Fortified Town, Kamphaeng Saen, Thailand
Jin, Jennie J.H. — Bioarchaeology; Zooarchaeology, Pennsylvania State University
Collaborative Archaeological Project on Taphonomic Analysis of the Early Holocene Faunal Materials from the Tangzigou site in Yunnan Province, China
Liu, Chin-hsin— Anthropology, University of Florida
Diet and Health Assessment of Metal Age Populations in Central Thailand: Evaluating Social Differentiation Using Paleopathology and Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis
Peterson, Emily Jean— Anthropology, University of Washington
The Origins and Development of Exchange Networks in Island Southeast Asia
Pettit, Jonathan Edwin— East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Excavating Salvation: The Archaeology of Medieval Daoist Communities
Tran, Jason Hoai— Asian Studies, Cornell University
Recluse of White Cloud Hermitage: Nguyen Binh Khiem (1491-1585) in Vietnamese Literature and Cultural Memory
Wu, Minna— East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
On the Periphery of a Great "Empire": Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age: ca.1045-500 B.C.E.
Xie, Liye— Anthropology, University of Arizona
A Comparative Study of the Emergence of Ground Stone Technology in North and South China

Study and Research Fellowships (East and Southeast Asia)

Barretto-Tesoro, Mary Grace Lualhati Dolatre— University of The Philippines
An Examination of the Ceramics in the Guthe Collection and Its Contribution to Philippine History and Culture
Guan, Ying— Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)
The Residue Analysis to Shuidonggou Artifacts: A New Perspective of the Paleoenvironment and Human Behavior
Hu, Ya-Qin—Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Interactions between Early Farmers and Environment during the Middle Neolithic Period in Northern China
Hui, Xiping— Shandong University
Settlement Archaeology in the Southeastern Coast Area of Shandong, China Supported by GIS from Prehistoric Period to Han Dynasty
Li, Suting— Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Population Dynamics in the Zhengzhou Area during the Shang Period
Li, Yung-ti— Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
The Kingly Craft: Craft Production and Political Economy of the Shang Capital at Anyang
Neri, Leee Anthony M. — University of The Philippines
Learning New Technique in Geochemical Analysis on Obsidian Artifacts Found in Philippine Archaeological Sites
Pei, Shuwen— Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP)
The Origins of Modern Human Behavior in China: Archaeological Evidence from Shuidonggou Locality 7
Pham, Lee-moi— National Taiwan University
Towards a Methodology for the Study of Paleographic Texts: A Study of the Chinese Writing System as Seen in Excavated Texts of the Warring States (481 B.C. - 221 B.C.)
Phan, Tu Anh— Vietnam National University, University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Comparative Study of Champa and Southeast Asian Statues through the Hindu Sculptural Collection in Binh Dinh
Song, Jin— Seoul National University
Characteristics of Boundary and “Rites of Passage” in Ancient China: Based on Analysis of Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions
Yue, Hongbin— Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Techniques, Style, and Function: an Integrated Perspective on the Social Understanding of Bronze Ritual Vessels of Late Shang Dynasty

Summer Field Scholarships (East and Southeast Asia)

Amphansri, Anusorn— Silpakorn University
An Animal Bone Analysis, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Fernandez, Erwin S. — University of The Philippines
The Search for Ice-Age Americans, University of Illinois at Chicago

Translation Grants (East and Southeast Asia)

Li, Meitian— Beijing Normal University
Chinese Translation of Albert E. Dien’s “Six Dynasties Civilization”

2008

Postdoctoral Fellowships (North America)

Campbell, Roderick— Visiting Research Associate, Archaeology and History, New York University
Consumption and Production: A Preliminary Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Late Shang (ca. 1250-1050 BC) Tiesanlu Bone Workshop at Anyang
Cohen, David— Adjunct Assistant Professor, Archaeology, Boston University
State Formation and Ethnicity in Early Bronze Age China: Postdoctoral research on the Yueshi Culture and preparation of a book manuscript
Tackett, Nicolas– Postdoctoral Fellow, History and Archaeology, Getty Research Institute
The Structure of the Late Tang Urban Elite: Reconstructing a Pre-Modern Social Network
Yao, Alice— Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeology, Brown University
Genesis of Bronze Polities in the Lake Dian Basin: An Archaeological Survey of PreHistoric Landscapes and Settlements in the Lake Dian Basin

Dissertation Fellowships (North America)

Chiang, Chihhua— Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
The Social Organization of the Wan-san Site
Ho, Han-Peng— Doctoral Candidate, History (East Asia), Columbia University
All the King's Land? The Conceptualization of Land & it's Social, Economic & Administrative Significance in Western Zhou China, 1045-771 BCE
Houle, Jean-Luc— Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology, University of Pittsburgh
Emergent Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe: Mobility, Territoriality, and the Development of Early Nomadic Polities
Hsieh, Meiyu— Doctoral Candidate, History, Stanford University
Viewing the Han Empire from the Edge, 2nd Century BCE - 2nd Century CE
Hung, Ling-yu— Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Ceramic Craft Specialization and the Development of Social Hierarchy in Late Neolithic Northwestern China (ca. 5300-4050 BP)
Zhang, Fan— Doctoral Candidate, Chinese Art and Archaeology, Brown University
Reading Theatrical Representations in Pingyang: Art, Ritual, and Popular Culture in Jin (1115-1234 CE) and Yuan (1271-1368 CE) China
Zhang, Hua— Doctoral Candidate, Bioarchaeology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Bioarchaeological Study of Ancient Human Remains in China

Study and Research Fellowships (East and Southeast Asia)

Dai, Xiangming— Head of Prehistoric Research Program, Archaeology, National Museum of China
Settlement of Patterns, Craft Production and Development of Social Complexity in the Yuncheng Basin, Central China
Gao, Jixi— Curator, Archaeology, Archaeology Institute of Jinan City, China
Damage and Repair on Buddhist Sculpture from Archaeological Deposit in China
Li, Zhipeng— Assistant Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
The Animal Economy and its Relationship to the Devlopment of Social Complexity from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in China
Pham, Ninh Thi— Researcher, Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology under Vietnamese Academy for Social Sciences, Vietnam
Comparative studies on jar burials of the Sa Huynh Culture, dating from the early Iron Age of Central Vietnam and the jar burial tradition of Southeast Asia
Sun, Zhouyong— Research Staff, Archaeology, Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, China
Investigation of the Pottery Production in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) China
Win, Htwe Htwe— Tutor, University of Yangon, Myanmar
Analysis of votive tablets of Bagan with special emphasis on the relation between Andagu & life of the Buddha
Yan, Zhibin— Assistant Research Fellow, Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Reflections on the social dynamics of the Shang Dynasty: A Holistic Perspective on the Clan Emblems of Shang Bronzes
Yue, Zhanwei— Assistant Research Scholar, Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Bronze Casting and Craft Organization of the Shang Dynasty- a multiple craft perspective
Zhang, Xuelian— Professor, Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
A Study on People's Diet of Daxinzhuang Site of the Shang Dynasty by Isotopic Analysis of 13N and 15N

Summer Field School Scholarships (East and Southeast Asia)

Chuenwattana, Nattha— Research Assistant, Exploration and Sustainable Heritage Management Project, Sirindhorn Anthropological Center, Thailand
Paleoethnobotanical Training at the Berry Site Field School, Morganton, NC with Professor Gayle J. Fritz from Washington University in St. Louis
Hoontrakul, Udomluck— Researcher, Ethnoarchaeological Study Project in Pang Mapha District, Sirindhorn Anthropological Center, Thailand
SMU Archaeological Field School, Summer 2008 (Southern Methodist University)
Leng, Rattanak— Staff, Archaeology/Prehistory, Ministry of Culture, Cambodia
SMU Archaeological Field School, Summer 2008 (Southern Methodist University)

Translation Grants(North America)

Kelley, Liam C.— Associate Professor, Southeast Asian History, University of Hawai’I, Manoa
Vietnam's Early History: A Translation of the "Outer Annals" of Two Vietnamese Chronicles

Translation Grants (East and Southeast Asia)

Chen, Hong— Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology, Fudan University, China
Translation of Lithic Analysis by George H. Odell, 2004 (from English into Chinese)
Thosarat, Rachanie— Adjunct Lecturer and Research Associate, Archaeology, University of Otago, New Zealand
To translate into Thai the following volume: The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor Volume Two. The Excavation of Noen U-Luke nd Non Muang Kao

2007

Postdoctoral Fellowships (North America)

Bellezza, John—Visiting Scholar, Pre-Buddhist Cultural History, University of Virginia
A Comprehensive Survey of Pre-Buddhist Monuments and Rock Art in the Tibetan Upland
Hendrickson, Mitchel—Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeology, University of Calgary
Angkorian Dharmasala Project: Research on Medieval Southeast Asian Transport Infrastructure
Li, Feng—Assistant Professor, Early Chinese Cultural History, Columbia University
Changes in the Socioeconomic Structure of the Bronze-Age Society in the Multicultural Environment on the South Shore of the Bohai Sea
Peterson, Christian—Teaching Fellow, Anthropological Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Activity and Process in the Formation of Hongshan Period Chiefly Communities: Collaborative First Stage Field Research in Liaoning Province, PRC
Williams, Crispin—Assistant Professor, Chinese Language and Culture, University of Kansas
Written on stone, sanctioned by spirits: the Wenxian covenant texts promise new insights into China's early history
Yang, Dongya—Assistant Professor, Molecular Archaeology, Ancient DNA, & Physical Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Molecular Archaeology: Archaeology-Oriented Ancient DNA Research in China

Dissertation Fellowships (North America)

Acabado, Stephen—Doctoral Candidate, Anthropological Archaeology, University of Hawai'I at Manoa
An historical ecological investigation of Ifugao irrigated terraced-rice agriculture and social organization
Green, Debra—Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Late Holocene Geoarchaeology in the Bais-Tanjay River Basin: Landscape Change and Subsistence Strategies of Prehispanic Societies on the Negros Oriental, Philippines
Guo, Jue—Doctoral Candidate, Early Chinese History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Reconstructing Fourth Century B.C.E. Chu Religious Practices: Divination, Sacrifice, Prayer, and Medicine in the Newly Excavated Baoshan Manuscripts
Kim, Nam—Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Collaborative Archaeological Investigation of Fortification Features at Co Loa
Miller, Bryan—Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology and History, University of Pennsylvania
Mapping Nomadic Cultures: Material Definitions of the "Xiongnu" Confederacy
Niziolek, Lisa—Doctoral Candidate, Archaeology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Pottery Production in a Prehispanic Philippine Polity: An Archaeological/Geochemical Study
Zhang, Zhaoyang—Doctoral Candidate, Legal History, University of California, Berkeley
Civil Law in Early China: the Law, Ritual, and Family

Study and Research Fellowships (East/Southeast Asia)

Arif, Johan—Lecturer, Bio-Anthropology and Zoo-Archaeology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia
Reconstruction of Paleoenvironment of Trinil HK and Kedung Brubus Faunas in Sangiran, Central Java, Indonesia
Fang, Hui—Professor, Archaeology, Shandong University, China
Ceramic Analysis and Social Changes in Early State of China: A Case Study of Daxinzhuang Site, Shandong
He, Yuling—Assistant Research Fellow, Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Ethnogenesis and Urbanization of Late Shang in Anyang
Lee, Gyoung-Ah—Researcher, Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Seoul National University, South Korea
Paleoethnobotanical Study on Early Agriculture in the Yiluo Valley, North China: Comparative Approach in Northeast Asia
Ma, Xiaolin—Vice-Director, Zooarchaeology, Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, China
Subsistence Economy at a Craft Production Center in the Yiluo Valley of Central China
Tang, Jigen—Professor, Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
A Collaborative Study of the Archaeological Materials from the "Early Shang Civilization Project" in Shangqiu, Henan, PRC
Trinh, Sinh Van—Department Head, Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam
Comparative Study of Bronze Artifacts from the Archaeological Sites of the Metal Age in Vietnam and East Asia
Yang, Jianhua—Professor, Archaeology, Jilin University, China
Collaborative Study with Professor Linduff of Cultural, Political, Gendered, and Economic Identity from New and Previous Evidence from Inner Mongolia During the Warring States
Zhang, Xiaoling—Doctoral Candidate, Prehistoric Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP), China
Lithic Use-Wear Analysis of Chinese Upper Paleolithic Lithic Artifacts in Comparison with North American Paleo-Indian Stone Tool Assemblages

Summer Field School Scholarships (East/Southeast Asia)

Jeong, Yuang-Seung—Graduate Student, Physical Anthropology, Paleopathology, Forensic Osteology, Seoul National University, South Korea
Forensic Anthropology Center, University of Tennessee
Jumprom, Preeyanuch—Archaeologist, Prehistory-History, The 1st Regional Office of Fine Arts, Thailand
SMU Archaeological Field School, Summer 2007 (Southern Methodist University)
Krajaejun, Pipad—Research Assistant, Prehistory, Highland Archaeology Project, Pan Mapha, Thailand
SMU Archaeological Field School, Summer 2007 (Southern Methodist University)
Petch-u-dom, Warangkana—Curator, Art History, Museology, Uthong National Museum, Ministry of Culture, Thailand
Maritime Archaeological Field School at the University of West Florida
Wangthongchaicharoen, Naruphol—Research Assistant, Physical Anthropology & Bio-Archaeology, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropological Center, Thailand
Paleoanthropology Field School in South Africa, Duke University, Durham

Translation Grants (East/Southeast Asia)

Tran, Ky-Phuong—Senior Researcher, History of Art, Vietnam Association of Ethnic Minorities' Culture & Arts, Vietnam
A Translation of the Book "The Ancient Khmer Empire" by Lawrence Palmer Briggs into Vietnamese language

Advanced Training Grants (East/Southeast Asia)

Woo, Eun-Jin—Research Assistant, Physical Anthropology; Paleopathology; Paleodemography, Seoul National University, South Korea
The Measurement of Health Using Skeletal Data: To a Bioanthropological Investigation in the Im-Dang Site in Kyungsan, Korea

2006

Postdoctoral Fellowships (North America)

Gwen Bennett—Assistant Professor, Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Archaeology and its Practice and Context in Northern China
Rowan Flad—Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Harvard University
The Archaeology of China's Three Gorges: Organization of Production, Technological Changes, and Trade in an Early Chinese Frontier Region

Dissertation Fellowships (North America)

Mio Katayama—Graduate Student, Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
Analysis of Faunal Remains at Sannai Maruyama
Hu Lin—Graduate Student, Archaeology, University of Chicago
Nomadism, Urbanization, and Social Order: An Archaeological Study of a Steppe Town in Northeast China (907-1125 AD)
Adam Daniel Smith—Graduate Student, Archaeology/Early Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
An Archaeological Study of Literate Practices of Anyang, China

Internship Grants (North America)

Denise Catalina Fong—Graduate Student, Anthropological Archaeology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ceramic Variation and Diversity in the Early Bronze Age of Central Plains China: A Case Study from the Transition Period Site of Huanbei
Internship at Anyang Workstation, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Henan Province, China
Joohyun Jin—Graduate Student, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Stanford University
Faunal and Taphonomic Analyses of the Paleolithic Archaeological Materials from the Tangzigou Site in Yunnan Province, China
Internship at Tangzigou Archaeological Site and Baoshan Cultural Museum, Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
Yun Kuen Lee—Research Associate, Archaeology, Harvard University
Domination and Resistance in the Yi-Luo Valley During the Mid-Second Millenium BC: The Ceramic Evidence
Internship at Huizui Archaeological Field Station, Henan Province, China

Study and Research Fellowships (East/Southeast Asia)

Xingcan Chen—Research Fellow, Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Ancient DNA Analysis of Archaeological Water Buffalo Remains from China
Xuexiang Chen—Doctoral Candidate, Archaeobotany, Shandong University, China
Comparative Study of Macro Plant Remains from Archaeological Sites of China and North America
Qingbo Duan—Researcher, Archaeology, Shaanxi Province Institute of Archaeology & Sichuan University, China
Assessment of Qin Shi Huangdi in Light of Excavations and Survey Work at the Qin Shi Huangdi Necropolis
Meitian Li—Assistant Professor, Archaeology, Beijing Normal University, China
The Archaeology of Death: A Case Study of Early Medieval Chinese Tombs
Chunming Wu—Professor, Archaeology, Xiamen University, China
The Relationship Between the Aboriginal Yue Nationalities of Southeast China and the Austronesian Maritime Cultures of Southeast Asia and Pacific Archipelagoes
Jiping Zhu—Associate Professor, Archaeometry, Hefei University of Technology, China
Comparative Study of Ancient Salt-Making Technology in China and the Americas

Translation Grants (East/Southeast Asia)

Thanik Lertcharnrit—Assistant Professor, Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Thailand
Translation of the book entitled "The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory” by Kenneth Feder (2003)

Field School Scholarships (East/Southeast Asia)

Johan Arif—Lecturer, Bio-Anthropology and Zoo-Archaeology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia
Archaeology Field School in Northwestern Indiana, University of Notre Dame
Mimi Savitri—Teaching Fellow, Archaeology, University Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Amherst Archaeological Field School, University of Massachusetts
Cholawit Thongcharoenchaikit—Research Assistant, Prehistory, Sirindhorn Anthropological Center, Thailand
Amherst Archaeological Field School, University of Massachusetts