Clayton D. Brown Research on Chinese History: Ethnology, Archaeology, and Han Identity

Xingping village, Guangxi province, March 2006

Current Events
Summer 2009	Research on the American School of Archaeology in China, 1912-1919, and the Freer Gallery Expedition to China, 1923-1934. Research conducted at the Freer Gallery and Central Archives of the Smithsonian Institution with funding from a Smithsonian Institution grant and the Rhodes College Faculty Development Endowment grant.
New Article	"Xia Nai and Li Chi," [Disquisitions on the Past and Present] v. 20 (Dec. 2009). Forthcoming from the Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philology. Chinese-language article on the personal and intellectual relationship between the preeminent archaeologists of the ROC and PRC, with special focus on Li Chi's legacy in communist historiography. Co-authored with Liu Wensuo, Professor of Archaeology at Zhongshan University
Presentation	"The American School of Archaeology in China" delivered at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution on July 2nd, 2009. In October I will be presenting "Making Anthropology Official: The Role of the Republic in Institutionalizing Disciplines" at UC Berkeley for the conference on Intellectuals, Professions, and Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century China.
Teaching 2008 - Present	Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Rhodes College.

Recent Appearances in the Online Academic Community
Fulbright profile	Fulbright photos	Rhodes News	Pitt A&S spotlight

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