Email: guopeng.chen[at]arch.ox.ac.uk
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I am a doctoral candidate in archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
My research interest include archaeological and social theory, emancipatory social sciences, Mesoamerican archaeology and Chinese archaeology. My doctoral thesis, titled Emancipatory Archaeology: Resilience in the Terminal Classic at Lamanai, Belize (8th to 11th centuries CE), explores how we can use archaeology to display the possibilities of humanity and envision an emancipatory future. It looks at the Maya site of Lamanai during the so-called “Maya Collapse”, a period of drastic social, political and environmental changes, to explore why Lamanai remained resilient and what insights we can draw from the Maya communities that have been living there for milllenia. I teach undergraduate tutorials on Introduction to World Archaeology and Chinese Archaeology at various Oxford colleges, and co-convene the Oxford Americanist Archaeology and World Archaeology Seminar series .
For my DPhil, I have received the St Cross Archaeology Scholarship. Previously, I completed an MPhil in Archaeology at Hertford College, University of Oxford and a BA in History at Renmin University of China, Beijing.