Kechu Huang received a BA in Anthropology, with a concentration in Archaeology, from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2020. She has participated in various archaeological field projects: in New Mexico, in Amheida, Egypt, and in Henan and Shaanxi, China.
Her work at ISAW focuses on the political and social history of Pharaonic Egypt and Shang dynasty China, with particular interests in governance, the performance of power, identity, human-animal relations, violence, syncretism, and anthropological approaches to ancient studies.
Dissertation title: Watching the Nile: Governance, Violence, and Presence in Early Egypt (3500–2181 BCE)