Lauren Morris is an archaeologist working on pre-Islamic Central Asia and Northwest India, with particular interest in the urban archaeology, numismatics, and commercial and diplomatic connections of the Kushans. She studied at the University of Sydney, and is completing her PhD in Klassische Archäologie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (2018), where she was a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School Distant Worlds (DFG Excellence Initiative GSC 1039, 2013-2017). Her doctoral research was undertaken on the Begram hoard (Afghanistan, excavated by the DAFA in 1937 and 1939) through published data, coins, and unpublished documentary and photographic material kept in the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet. This work produced a revised chronology for the occupation of the site and hoard’s deposition, the first full inventory of this find, reliable information about its immediate archaeological context, and resulting new hypotheses regarding its nature and implications. She has undertaken doctoral research in Uzbekistan, Japan, and Paris, and participated in fieldwork projects in Cyprus, Spain, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan.