Koji Mizoguchi
Born1963 (age 6061)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology

Koji Mizoguchi (born in 1963) is a Japanese archaeologist and a professor of social archaeology in the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University. He studies the comparative emergence of societies in Europe and Japan and has a particular interest in the history of archaeology. He currently serving as the sixth president of the World Archaeological Congress, serves as director of the Advanced Asian Archaeology Research Center at Kyushu University, and is an elected fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries. He has been involved in numerous archaeological projects, and is currently a co-director (with Julian Thomas and Keith Ray) of the project ‘Beneath Hay Bluff: prehistoric south-west Herefordshire, c.4000-1500 BC.'[1]

Biography

Koji was born in 1963 in Kitakyushu, Japan. After obtaining his PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, in 1995, he became an associate professor in archaeology at the Kyushu University's Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies. He was promoted as Professor in 2013.[2]

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Works

Articles and chapters in edited volumes

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References

  1. "Presidents". World Archaeological Congress. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  2. 1 2 Matsuda, Akira (2014). "Mizoguchi, Koji". In Smith, Claire (ed.). Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer. pp. 4967–4968. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2460. ISBN 978-1-4419-0465-2.
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