Henry Jacobs received his BA and MSt in Chinese Studies from The University of Oxford, where his work focused on Early and Early Medieval text cultures and knowledge production. His doctoral research broadly concerns the reconstruction of Early Chinese ritual and music, divination practices, and text cultures using palaeographic, epigraphic, and archaeological materials. A central concern of his scholarship is the relationship between evolving media technologies (including ritual and music) and Early Chinese intellectual and religious developments. Some of his recent projects include an investigation into the musical dimensions of Late-Neolithic Chinese jades in collaboration with the Harvard Arts Museums Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and a re-examination of Late Shang 商 (ca. 1200-1046 BCE) written culture using digitized oracle-bone inscription databases.