B.A., Harvard University, 1960.
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976.

Editorial Board, Archeomaterials, 1986-93.
Associate Editor, ACRO Update, an international quarterly newsletter for the study of Asian ceramics, 1995-96.

Economic and social evolution, with special reference to early technology and trade in Asia.

The ancient world had surprising similarities to our own in terms of the importance of commercial competition, the effects of technological progress, and the causes of economic development and decline. In line with these interests I have been involved for a number of years in a program of archaeological and ethnographic work in Asia combined with research on the Asian collections of The Field Museum. I have collaborated with several specialists outside the Museum on studies of early metallurgy in Southeast Asia and China. With my in-Museum colleague, Adjunct Curator Chuimei Ho, I am now engaged in a three-year project that focuses on the early ceramic and metal industries of Southeast China and on the history of international trade in eastern and southern Asia.

I am also pursuing several other collections-oriented research projects. These include studies of recent (AD 1400-1900) East Asian bronzes, of Asian animal-keeping pastimes, of connections between early Southeast Asia and Madagascar as revealed in artifact design and nomenclature, of early glass and glaze chemistry, and of the historical art of the Philippines. At present I am supervising research by Ph.D. students at two local universities.