Curriculum Vitae

Education

2008-2013     Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford (St Antony’s College)

Thesis: Life in the Rural Shanxi House: Seasonal Resonances and Techniques of Transformation in North-Central China
Supervisor: Prof Elisabeth Hsu
Examiners: Dr Adam Chau and Dr Robert Parkin
Funding: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) +3 Studentship

2007-2008     Master of Science (MSc) Social and Cultural Anthropology (Research Methods), University of Oxford (St Antony’s College)

Thesis Title: Housing Kinship in Rural China
Supervisor: Dr Robert Parkin       
Award: Distinction

2003-2006     Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Award: First Class

2001- 2003    Bilingual Diploma (English and German) of the International Baccalaureate, Southbank International School, London
Outcome: 38 Points

Professional Appointments

January 2016 – present: Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in the Department of ‘Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia’ Research Group on ‘Financialization’
September 2015 – December 2015: Fellow in ‘Global Aging’ at the Europainstitut, University of Basel, responsibilities included initiating interdisciplinary research network and developing analytical approaches to ‘Global Aging’
October 2014 – August 2015: Fellow at re:work research centre for work and the human lifecycle in global history, responsibilities included developing methodological and analytic frameworks for understanding the intersecting relationship between work and the lifecycle, especially by organizing and participating in seminars, workshops, and conferences
September 2012 – September 2014: Fellow in Anthropology at the London School of Economics, responsibilities included lecturing and convening courses in the Anthropology of Kinship, Sex, and Gender and Anthropology of China, acting as academic adviser, tutor, and seminar leader for undergraduate students in anthropology
January 2011 – May 2012: Tutor in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, responsibilities included tutoring on courses in the Phenomenology of Healing and Curing, the Anthropology of Fertility and Reproduction, and running an ethnographic film series on Medical Anthropology

Grants and Fellowships

• Writing Up Bursary, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, June 2012
• Carr and Stahl Travel Fund, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, May 2012
• ESRC +3 Studentship, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), September 2008 – September 2011
• Anthropology Department Nominee for Undergraduate School Prize, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, June 2006

Conference and workshop participation

2015 ‘Gender inequality and the invisibility of women’s work in evolution and civilization: the grandmother hypothesis in contemporary China’ at Conference on Inequality, Scale and Civilisation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, July 10th
2015 ‘Scarcity and intergenerational care in the making of rural Chinese children’ Re:Work Final Conference, Humboldt Universität, June 30th
2015 ‘The materiality of the unhomely: living within the houses of class enemies in rural China’ Re:Work Conference on Home-making as Work, May 28th
2015 ‘How can you be so polite? Aren’t we close? The productive and destructive potential of heated disputes in rural China’ Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Conference, University of Exeter, April 15th
2014 ‘Ambiguities in celebrating children: negotiating intergenerational care and the politics of family planning in rural China’ Workshop on ‘Doing Politics – Making Kinship,’ Re:Work, Humboldt Universität, February 13th-15th
2013 ‘The limits of individualism in facing disaster in rural China’ American Anthropological Association Conference, Chicago, November 23rd
2012 ‘A Chinese earthquake rumour and its repercussions’ European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Nanterre University, July 10th –July 13th
2012 ‘The unhomely interior of working life projects’ Interdisciplinary Conference on ‘Rethinking Humanism’, University of St Andrews, June 28th – June 29th

Conference and workshop organization

2015 Panel co-organized with James Williams ‘Perilous Proximities: the dangers of closeness’ at the ASA Conference, University of Exeter, April 15th
2014 Lead Organizer of Anthropology in London Conference, UCL, London, June 24th

Language and Teaching Training

• Stand Alone Language Paper: Chinese Upper Intermediate, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, October 2007 – June 2008
• Chinese Intermediate Diploma, Tsinghua University, Beijing, September 2006 – June 2007
• Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) Cambridge English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), University of Cambridge, July 2006

Languages

English                      Native Speaker
German                     Native Speaker
Putonghua (Standard Mandarin Chinese)    Advanced

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