Page 1 of 3 Elizabeth S. Berger CB #3115, 301 Alumni Bldg., Chapel Hill, NC 27599 eberger@live.unc.edu • (413) 530-5961 RESEARCH INTERESTS Early China and archaeology of China; prehistory of China and Inner Asia; history of health; human ecology; pastoralism; paleopathology; paleodemography EDUCATION 2011—present 2013 2009 PhD student (ABD), Department of Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Advisor: Dr. Dale L. Hutchinson MA, Department of Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Advisor: Dr. Dale L. Hutchinson BA (Magna Cum Laude, Departmental Honors), Interdisciplinary Major in Archaeology, Special Concentration in Linguistics, Columbia University Advisor: Dr. LI Feng FUNDING Fellowships National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2011-2016 UNC Center for Faculty Excellence Future Faculty Fellowship, fall 2015 Mooney Fellowship (UNC-CH Research Laboratories of Archaeology), 2014-2015 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Mandarin Chinese), summer 2012 UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School Merit Assistantship, 2011-2012 Grants Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research ($1000) UNC Graduate and Professional Student Federation Travel Award ($400) National Geographic Young Explorers Grant ($5,000), 2013: Health Consequences of the Transition to Pastoralism in the Northern Zone of China Carolina Asia Center Pre-Dissertation Asia Travel Award ($2,000), summer 2013: Health Consequences of Early Pastoralism in the Bronze Age Chinese Northern Zone PUBLICATIONS Li, F, Berger E. 2014. Intra-site Organization in the Late Bronze Age: The Application of FullCoverage Survey Methods at Guicheng, Shandong Province, China. Asian Archaeology. Page 2 of 3 Li, F, Berger E, Liang Z, Trinidad-Christensen J. (In preparation) Complete Coverage Surface Survey. In Guicheng: Method and Practice in Archaeological Survey. Presentations: Berger, E. (2016). Paleopathology in the Bronze Age Hexi Corridor. Symposium: Humans in Marginal Environments. To be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Atlanta, GA. (Session organizer) Berger, E. (2015). Examining the human in human-animal relationships: towards a bioarchaeology of Eurasian pastoralism. Presented at the Stanford Humanities Center as part of the workshop “The Bestial and the Beastly: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human-Animal Relationships”. Berger, E. (2015) Bioarchaeology, human ecology, and subsistence change in ancient China. Panel: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Economics in China. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Berger, E. (2015) Health Consequences of the Transition to Pastoralism in Northwest China. Invited talk at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, DC. Berger, E. (2014) Human Health and the Rise of Agro-Pastoralism in Xibei. Podium presentation at the Huoshaogou and Yumen International Symposium on History and Culture, Yumen, Gansu Province, China. (in Chinese) Berger, E, Wei D, Zhu H. (2014) Caries calibration methods in a Bronze Age Inner Asian skeletal sample. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Li, F, Trinidad-Christensen J, Vogt N, Berger E. (2010) Guicheng and Bronze-Age Archaeology in Eastern China. Podium presentation at the Early China Seminar, Columbia University. Berger, E. (2009) Systematic Sampling in Intensive Surface Survey: Initial Results and Implications of Archaeological Research at Guicheng, Shandong, China. Podium presentation at the New York Archaeological Consortium. Academic Theses: An Epidemiological Transition in the Chinese Northern Zone. (2013) Master’s Thesis: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Systematic Sampling in Intensive Surface Survey: Initial Results and Implications of Archaeological Research at Guicheng, Shandong, China. (2009) Senior Undergraduate Thesis: Columbia University. Translations: Selected chapters in Guicheng: Method and Practice in Archaeological Survey (in preparation). Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. Brief Report on the Excavation of the Gan‘gou Site in Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Chinese Cultural Relics (2014). Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Sanmenxia City Institute of Archaeology. The Excavation of the Lijiayao Western Zhou Cemetery, Sanmenxia. Chinese Cultural Relics (2015). Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Northwest University Silk Road Heritage Preservation and Archaeology Research Center. Brief Report on the 2009 Excavation of the Qijia Culture Graves of the Mogou Cemetery in Lintan, Gansu. Chinese Culture Relics (in press). Brief Report on the Excavation of the Tang Dynasty Tomb of Cao Yi in Fenyang City, Shanxi Province. Chinese Cultural Relics (in press). Page 3 of 3 PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE UNC-Chapel Hill: Human Osteology (ANTH 414), Instructor, Fall 2015 UNC-Chapel Hill: General Anthropology (ANTH 101), Teaching Assistant, 2011—2012 Orange Country Literacy Council, Chapel Hill, NC: ESOL Volunteer Instructor, 2011—2012 Lutheran Family Health Centers Community Based Programs, Brooklyn, NY: AmeriCorps Member in adult education and employment services, 2009—2010 Foundation Programs Glimpses of China (high school study abroad summer program), Shanghai: Teaching Assistant, 2009 American Museum of Natural History, Biological Anthropology: Intern, 2009 American Museum of Natural History, Asian Ethnology: Intern, 2008 Rubin Museum of Art, Department of Education: Intern, 2007 Field experience: Yangguanzhai Archaeology Field School (volunteer), China, summer 2014 ArchaeoTek Field School, Romania, summer 2013 Mongol-American Khovd Archaeology Project, Mongolia, summer 2010 Guicheng Archaeological Project, Guicheng, China, summer 2008 Athienou Archaeological Project, Athienou, Cyprus, summer 2007 TRAINING National Geographic Storytelling Bootcamp for public communication of science, July 2015 Bone and tooth sample preparation for light isotope analysis in laboratory of Dr. Stanley Ambrose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2015 Cementochronology (tooth cementum annulation analysis) specimen preparation, photography, and analysis with Dr. Benoit Bertrand, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie, Direction de l’Archéologie Préventive, Communauté d’Agglomération du Douaisis, Douai, France, December 2014 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science Sigma Xi: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapter Society for American Archaeology American Association of Physical Anthropologists Paleopathology Association