Professor Gina Barnes
MA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Michigan)
Overview
Department of the History of Art and Archaeology
Senior Teaching Fellow
Japan Research Centre (JRC)
Professorial Research Associate
- Name:
- Professor Gina Barnes
- Email address:
- gb11@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4463
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4479
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Brunei Gallery
- Office No:
- B302
- Office Hours:
- Thursdays 3-5pm
- Curriculum Vitae:
- Gina Barnes (pdf; 261kb)
Biography
Prof. Barnes is currently writing on landscape and civilization in Japan for an edited book, and will be participating in the IGCP research program on tectonics and archaeology from the Mediterranean through the Himalayas for which she is researching a paper on Earthquake Archaeology of Japan.
Biography
Gina Barnes, a California native raised in Colorado, has spent her working life in England, finishing her Ph.D. on Japanese state formation for the University of Michigan (1983) while teaching East Asian archaeology as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge (1981-85). She worked briefly at the University of Leiden (1986), where she expanded her interests in Korean state formation, then returned to St. John's College, Cambridge, as a Senior Researcher (1987-95). In 1996, she took up the post of Professor of Japanese Studies at Durham University, from which she has recently retired as Emeritus Professor.
Research
Her research connections are now primarily with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she is Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Japan Research Centre. Her publications include four single-authored books: Protohistoric Yamato: archaeology of the first Japanese state (U. Michigan, 1988); The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: archaeology of China, Korea, and Japan (Thames & Hudson, 1993/1999); State Formation in Korea: historical and archaeological perspectives (Curzon, 2001); and State Formation in Japan: emergence of a 4th-century elite (Routledge, 2007).
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