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Dr Yijie Zhuang
Associate Professor
Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
Institute of Archaeology
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2013
Research summary
Research Interests
Geoarchaeology; Ecology of early agriculture; Long-term landuse and landscape changes; Irrigation and Water management; diversetrajectories to social complexity; East, South and Southeast Asia.
Research Projects
2019-2020 UCL Global Engagement Grant (PI), Reconstructing ricefarming landscape at the Ankadivory and Ambohidahy sites along the Ikopa Riverof Madagascar Highlands
2017-2019 Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, UK Co-PI(Chinese PI, Professor Duowen Mo, Peking University), Environmental archaeology of the origin anddevelopment of the Liangzhu Civilization
2016 Centre for Research into Dynamics ofCivilisation (PI),Marginal or parallel? A pilot studyof water use strategies and dynamic discourses of early civilisations in Chinaand India.
Teaching summary
- Degree Programme Co-ordinator: MA in Archaeology and Heritage of Asia
- Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0062 Art and Archaeology of Ancient China
- Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0063 Art and Archaeology of Early Imperial China
- Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0152 Archaeologies of Asia
- Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0155 Social Complexity in Early China from the Neolithic to the Early Empire
Biography
- BA, MA, PhD
- Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology
- Deputy Departmental Tutor to International Students
- BSc Archaeological Science tutor
Educational Background
- 2012-13: Junior Research Fellow in ChineseArchaeology, Merton College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2008 – 2012: PhD Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2005 – 2008: MA Archaeology and Museology, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 2001 – 2005: BA Archaeology and Museology, Department of Archaeology, School of Culture and Museology, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China