Prof. Li Liu obtained a BA in History (Archaeology Major) from Northwest University in China (1982), an MA in Anthropology from Temple University in Philadelphia (1987), and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University (1994). She joined Stanford University in 2010. Previously, she taught archaeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, for 14 years and was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in Australia. Her research interests include the archaeology of early China (Neolithic and Bronze Age), ritual practices in ancient China, cultural interactions between China and other parts of the Old World, the domestication of plants and animals in China, the development of complex societies and state formation, settlement archaeology, and urbanism.