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Trent Walker
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Religious Studies
BioPhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
BA, Stanford University, 2010
Trent Walker specializes in Southeast Asian Buddhism, including ritual, manuscript, and translation cultures in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Recent publications include articles on Cambodian Dharma songs, Thai literary history, and translation practices in southern Vietnam. He is working on his first book, Classical Reading, Vernacular Writing: A Bitextual History of Mainland Southeast Asian Letters, 1450–1850, which argues that a distinct mode of translation was the core intellectual and literary activity in early modern Theravada Buddhist cultures. -
Jiajing Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology
BioJiajing Wang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Archaeology Center. She is a prehistoric archaeologist whose research interests include the origins of agriculture, the rise of sociopolitical inequalities, and ancient alcohol production. She studies these topics through archaeobotanical, use-wear, and lithic analyses. Her recent project examines the transition from hunter-gatherer to rice agricultural societies during the early Holocene period in the Lower Yangtze Valley of China.