Education

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz, Anthropology (with parenthetical notation in Feminist Studies), 2006

MA, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology, December 1998

BA, Stanford University, Individually Designed Major with coursework in anthropology, art, and literature, With Distinction and Departmental Honors, June 1991 

Transnational Feminisms; Feminist Ethnography and Oral History; Anthropology of Gender; Race, Class, and Gender; Expressive and Visual Culture; Ethnographic Film; China and East Asia; Asian America

Selected Fellowships & Grants

Literary Arts Award, Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Program, Washington State, 2005

Humanities Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, for Cruel/Loving Bodies exhibition exploring gender issues in contemporary Chinese art, 2004

Small Grant, China & Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 2003

American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2002-2003

Pacific Rim Research Project Grant, University of California Office of the President, 2000-2002

Wenner-Gren Predoctoral Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2000-2001

Assistant Professor. University of Washington, Seattle, joint appointment in Anthroplogy & Women Studies, 2006-current.

Lecturer. Departments of Anthropology & Women Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 2005-2006.

Instructor. Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Department of Anthropology, UCSC, Spring 2004.

Guest Instructor. Chinese Ethnicity: Visual & Personal Encounters-Summer Seminar for K-12 Teachers, Educators, and Media Specialists, Programs in International Educational Resources-East Asia Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, July 2003.

Visiting Lecturer. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill summer abroad program, Beijing, PRC, Summer 2002.

Editor. New Art Media, Beijing, PRC, Fall 2001. Edited Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West, Wu Hung, ed., Hong Kong: New Art Media, 2001.

Research and Program Assistant. Center for International and Comparative Studies & Rockefeller Humanities Residency Program-International Forum for U.S. Studies, University of Iowa, 1994-1996.

English Instructor. North China University of Technology, Beijing, PRC, 1992-1994.

Development Assistant. San Francisco Performances, San Francisco, CA, 1991-1992.

Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

"What Women Will Have Been: Reassessing Feminist Cultural Production in China," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(4), 941-66.

"On Curating Cruel/Loving Bodies," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3(2): 17-36.

"Being Between," ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action, 6(2): 31-33.

"The Long March to Lugu Lake: A Dialogue with Judy Chicago," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1(3): 69-75.

"Living Elsewhere in 16 Steps," with Wendy Call, Chain 9 (summer 2002): 59-69.

"Traveling Artists, Traveling Art, Ethnographic Luggage," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1(2): 4-12.

"Eating Lychees," Flyway Literary Review 6(3)/7(1)(spring 2002): 13-15. 

Jing Jing Hair Salon, with Thomas Chang and Fu Xiaoxing, video documentary about three hair salon workers, including two migrant women from the countryside, in a Beijing neighborhood on the verge of urban redevelopment, in post-production (rough cut completed).

Long March to Lugu Lake, with James Tweedie, video documentary about a group of Chinese feminist artists as they travel to a matrilineal minority village on Lugu Lake in Yunnan province to participate in an art happening with American feminist artist Judy Chicago, in post-production.