PhD (Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Institute of Archaeology, UK)
Anke Hein is Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Her main research interests lie with inter-cultural contact and human-environment interaction, especially as reflected in ceramic technology. Geographically, she is focusing on the so-called border regions of China which have been zones of interaction since early prehistoric times. She received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2018 and has served as postdoctoral fellow at Hebrew University and at the University of Munich in the following years until joining the faculty of the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, in January 2016. There she is also affiliated with the Oxford China Centre, St Hugh’s College, and the Compton Verney Art Gallery. She is the PI of a long-term research project on ceramic production and usage in Bronze Age Northwest China, working with the Andersson collection held at the Museum of Far Eastern Activities, Stockholm. She also conducts ethnoarchaeological research on ceramic production in Shaanxi and Gansu and she is Co-PI for a field research project on Human Response To High Altitude Environmental Change on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, conducted in collaboration with UC San Diego, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Sichuan University, and Beijing University.
Contact: president@seaa-web.org