Biography
Kuei-chen Lin studied Chinese literature and language as an undergraduate at the National Central University from 1994-1999, and then Computer Science as a postgraduate at the University of Southern California from 2001-2002. She worked as a software engineer for Microtek in 2003. Lin subsequently studied anthropology as a postgraduate at the National Tsing Hua University from 2004-2006. In 2013, Lin received a PhD in archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a doctoral student from 2006-2013. Her doctoral thesis was titled Pottery Production and Social Complexity of the Bronze Age Cultures on the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China, and was supervised by Lothar von Falkenhausen and Dwight W. Read.
Lin was a postdoctoral researcher from 2014 to 2015 for the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. She became an assistant research fellow in 2015, and an associate research fellow in 2023. Since 2016, Lin has been an adjunct assistant professor and later an associate professor at the Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University. Lin's research concentrates on craft production and its relationships to social complexity during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age in southwestern China. She worked on the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey Report (2005-2010). She did research on the archaeological site of Jinsha. She also conducted archaeological survey concerning the settlement patterns of the Bunun people in Lakulaku River basin, Taiwan.
Lin is the regional representative for Australasia in the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Lin was elected president of the Archaeological Society of Taiwan, constituting the 4th Board of Directors and Supervisors for 2023-2025. Lin has also made an important contribution to the study of 20th-century female Chinese archaeologists.
