Professor Wenjia Liu has joined the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies for the coming academic year as a Visting Research Fellow.
Professor Liu comes from the School of Architecture at Zhengzhou University. She works on the sustainable conservation of archaeological sites in modern urban space. Her projects have focussed on some of the most important sites from ancient China, including at Luoyang, the Ritual Building Areas (Han-wei dynasty) and the Dingding Gate (Sui-Tang dynasty); as well as Panlong City in Wuhan (Shang dynasty).
Whilst in Kent, she will work with staff and PhD students in the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies to investigate the changing values associated with heritage sites both in the UK and in Italy over the last 50 years. In addition, she will seek to identify approaches within Western concepts of planning and conservation that may be applicable in China.
She will be based at the Canterbury Campus but will visit Kent’s study centres in Athens and Rome.