Chapter Title: List of contributors

Book Title: Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present
Book Editor(s): Yijie Zhuang and Mark Altaweel
Published by: UCL Press

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List of contributors

Fawzi Abudanah is an associate professor in the Department of Archae-

ology at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. Dr Abudanah received his PhD
from the School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle, where
his studies focused on the Roman period. Additionally, Dr Abudanah’s
research interests include water systems and landscape archaeology in
Jordan.

Mark Altaweel obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago and is
now a reader in Near East Archaeology at UCL. He has conducted field-
work in various parts of the Middle East and North America, focusing
on environmental and social-environmental interactions in modern and
ancient societies. In addition to fieldwork, he uses quantitative and ana-
lytical methods to gain insight into water-management and water-use
issues.

Sarah Bell is a chartered engineer and a professor of environmental

engineering at UCL. She is the director of the Engineering Exchange,
which supports community engagement with engineering and built envi-
ronment research. She is an EPSRC Living with Environmental Change
research fellow, researching community engagement with infrastructure
projects.

Judith Bunbury obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge

and has worked as a geoarchaeologist based at the Department of Earth
Sciences there. She has studied the interaction between people and the
waterscapes of Egypt throughout the Holocene. Her current work is an
investigation of the movements of the Nile and the effects of both human
intention and natural processes.

Peter D. Clift is a marine and sedimentary geologist who has worked

in Asia for 27 years. Educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities,
he is now the Charles T. McCord Endowed Professor at Louisiana State

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 University. He is a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
and Nanjing Normal University.

Mark Driessen is an assistant professor in the Archaeology Group of

the Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Period (Eurasia) in the
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. His fields of research relate
to ancient harbours, ancient water management and agriculture, Roman
logistics and trade, the Roman army, landscape archaeology, and com-
munity-based programming.

Maurits W. Ertsen is an associate professor in the Water Resources group

at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He studies how
irrigation realities emerge from short-term actions of (non-)human
agents. His work spans current, historical and archaeological times. He
is one of two main editors of the journal Water History.

Liviu Giosan obtained his PhD from Stony Brook University, New York.
He is now a geoscientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(USA). His recent work has focused on fluvial and marine morphody-
namics, the future of deltas, the effects of historic land use on marine
environments, and the role of monsoons as a driver of civilisation flores-
cence or collapse in Asia.

Jaafar Jotheri obtained his PhD from Durham University in 2016; his
thesis title is ‘Holocene avulsion history of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
in the Mesopotamian floodplain’. He has a general interest in the geoar-
chaeology of the southern Mesopotamian floodplain, with a special focus
on how the changing of rivers’ courses impacted on human activities and
settlement patterns in the past. He also researches the development of
irrigation systems in Mesopotamia and around the world. He currently
works as an assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology at the
University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq, where he teaches remote sensing, GIS,
field archaeology and geoarchaeology.

Heejin Lee obtained her PhD from the Department of Archaeology, Uni-
versity of Cambridge. She is now a lecturer in the Division of Cultural
Heritage Convergence, Korea University. Her research focuses on ancient
soils associated with agricultural management and ancient use of space,
and on understanding the complex relationship between humans and the
environment. She has conducted geoarchaeological research on ancient
settlements and agricultural sites in the Korean peninsula and Jeju Island.

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Duowen Mo is a professor at the College of Urban and Environmental
Sciences, Peking University. His main research interests include surface
geomorphological processes, sedimentary processes, and how these
environmental processes are related to social changes. He is the direc-
tor of the Association for the Environmental Archaeology of China. He
has directed numerous environmental archaeological research projects
across China.

Julia Shaw obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She
is now a lecturer in South Asian Archaeology at the UCL Institute of
Archaeology. She has been carrying out fieldwork in India for the last 20
years. Her current research interests include: South Asian environmental
and socio-religious history; religion, medical knowledge and attitudes
towards food and the body; and global ecological discourse, environmen-
tal health and archaeology as environmental humanities.

Janice Stargardt is a professor and senior fellow of Sidney Sussex Col-

lege, University of Cambridge. She is also a senior fellow of the McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research and the Department of Geography.
She works on the historical geography and archaeology of South and
South East Asia. The overarching theme of her research has been the
transition of societies in south-east India, Burma and Thailand from Iron
Age villages to complex, literate and urbanised communities.

Tim Williams, FSA, is a reader in Silk Roads Archaeology at the UCL

Institute of Archaeology. He worked in the Department of Urban Archae-
ology (Museum of London) and at English Heritage before joining UCL in
2002. His current research is focused on urbanism, especially Islamic and
central Asian, along the Silk Roads. He has undertaken major projects
in Beirut (Lebanon) and Merv (Turkmenistan), and the International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) thematic study of the Silk
Roads, which was the basis for the UNESCO World Heritage nomination
strategy.

Yijie Zhuang obtained his PhD from the Department of Archaeology,

University of Cambridge. He is now a senior lecturer in Chinese Archae-
ology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has conducted intensive
fieldwork in different parts of East and South East Asia. He is primarily
interested in the reconstruction of the water-management systems and
agricultural ecologies of both the monsoonal and arid regions of Asia
and in how these related to long-term social evolution.

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