The Newsletter 70 Spring 2015

Gwen Bennett

Gwen Bennett

Gwen Bennett is an assistant professor in the departments of East Asian Studies and Anthropology at McGill University, Canada, where she was hired to start a program in East Asian historical archaeology. She has studied, worked, and done research in China for many years, and is currently Principal Investigator of the ‘Khitan-Liao Archaeologial Survey and History Project’ (KLASH) in southeastern Inner Mongolia, which looks at the rise of the Liao Empire by integrating new data from archaeological fieldwork with historical data; and the ‘Chengdu Plains Archaeological Survey Project’ (CPAS) in Sichuan, which has finished fieldwork and is now in the writing up stage. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Fieldwork for the ‘Understanding Cities in the Premodern History of Northeast Asia (c. 200-1200) Project’, being done in tandem with KLASH and which uses geophysical methods to examine the three walled Liao period settlements in the project area.