Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education and Research Experience

2010-ongoing
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. Department 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia'. ‘Kinship and social support in China and Vietnam’ research group.

2012
PhD in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Latham.
Dissertation: ‘An ethnographic inquiry into the limits of China’s migration paradigm’

2007
Oxford Academy of Documentary Film (OADF). Workshop on digital documentation and filmmaking for research purposes.
Member of the editorial board, SOAS Research Journal, 2006-2007.

2004
Master of Arts in Social Anthropology of Development, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Under the supervision of Prof. E. Croll.
Dissertation: ‘Intergenerational arrangements in Post-Mao China: Orientalism or necessity?’
2002
European Summer School in Modern South Asian Studies - South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

2000
Degree in Asian Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy (MA equivalent). Passed with 110/110.
Dissertation: ‘Some Aspects of Social Mobility in Contemporary China’
1999-2000
Exchange student, Nanjing University, Nanjing, PRC. China-Italy bilateral exchange programme. Courses in Chinese language, contemporary literature and contemporary history.

1998
Language student, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, PRC. Five-month language course.

1996
Language student, Capital Normal University, Beijing, PRC. Three-month language course.

Teaching and Administrative Experience

2013
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. ‘Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Contemporary China’ MA course design and teaching.

2010
SOAS, Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Teaching Assistant for Social Theory course, BA 1st year.

2006
CIDOB Foundation, Barcelona. ‘Asia in Development’ Summer School.

2005
ESIA, The Future of Asia, Research Project and Round Table. Study Team Expert.

2002–2003
EIAS – European Institute of Asian Studies, Brussels. Director’s Assistant.

2002–2004
Editions Clépsydre, Brussels. Interviews, writing up and editing.

2001-2002
Centre Européen des Ressources sur les Reconversions et les Mutations (CERRM) Brussels office. Project Assistant.

2001
The Council of EU, Directorate J Employment and Social Policy. Intern.

Fieldwork and Field Trips

2011-2012
Nine-month fieldwork for the project ‘Marriage and social mobility in urban China’. Nanjing, PRC.
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Nanjing University.
Nanjing, People’s Republic of China.
Ten-day field visit to Hanoi, Vietnam.

2008-2009
One-month field visit for doctoral research project. Nanjing, PRC.

2007-2008
Thirteen-month long fieldwork for doctoral research project. Nanjing, PRC.
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Nanjing University.
Nanjing, People’s Republic of China.

Grants and Awards

2006-2010
Full Doctoral Award, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK.

1999-2000
Full Scholarship of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) in bilateral agreement with the Italian Department of Foreign Affairs for a year of study at Nanjing University, People’s Republic of China.

1994-1999
Full scholarship, the Regional Council of Veneto, Italy.

Selected Presentations

2013
‘Risks, Ruptures, and Uncertainties: Dealing with Crisis in Asia's Emerging Economies’, Institute of Social Anthropology, Vienna, 4-6 December 2013. ‘My generation had it all easy. Accounts of anxiety and social order in urban post-Mao China’

2013
IUAES: ‘Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds’, University of Manchester, 7 August 2013. ‘Be my Valentine: bouquets, marriage and middle class hegemony in urban China’

2013
‘Is Chinese Patriarchy Over? The Transformation of a System of Social Support’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, 28 June 2013. ‘Being the right woman for Mr Right. Marriage and household politics in present-day Nanjing’

2012
EASA: ‘Uncertainty and Disquiet’, University of Nanterre, Paris, France, 12 July 2012. ‘Is it better to cry on a BMW or to laugh on a bicycle? “Financial performance anxiety” in Nanjing (PRC)’

2012
Weekly Seminar - Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 6 June 2012. ‘南京的消费实践与阶层区隔’

2011
Conférences de l’IAO - Istitut Asie Orientale, Lyon, France, 13 January 2011. ‘An ethnographic inquiry into the limits of China’s rural to urban migration paradigm’

2010
2d CAAS Symposium and workshop: Migration, mobility and globalization – INALCO, Paris, 26 November 2010. ‘Why having “underclass” when you can have “class”?’

2010
British Association of Chinese Studies Annual conference – University of Bristol, 9 September 2010. ‘Negotiating the meaning of “success” through arranged marriage in Post-Mao China’

2010
2nd International Congress on Chinese Studies - East China Normal University, Shanghai, 28-30 June 2010: ‘Making one’s home as “marginal” in a late modern Chinese city’

2010
Drake University research visit - Nanjing University, 21 June 2010. ‘Some thoughts on doing fieldwork in Nanjing’

2010
Ethnographic Perspectives on Work and Labour Seminar Series - London School of Economics, 3 February 2010, ‘China’s rural to urban migrant as the “other”’

2009
China-Europa Forum – Beijing, 17-21 July 2009. Women’s Workshop.

2009
London Anthropology Day - University College, London, 15 June 2009. ‘Come have dinner at our place: Making one’s home as ‘the marginal’ in a late-modern Chinese city’

Languages

English, French, Mandarin, Spanish: fluent.
German: basic.
Italian: native language.

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