Janice Stargardt Editor

Janice Stargardt is Professorial Fellow in the archaeology of South and South East Asia, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and member of the research team in Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, an ERC research project led by Michael Willis, Sam van Schaik and Nathan Hill. The over-arching 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 urbanized communities. She is currently directing new excavations at Sri Ksetra, one of the oldest cities in Southeast Asia. Michael Willis is leading Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) that is based in the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods (Cambridge, 2009) and a number of other books on Indian art, archaeology and history.