ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
USC | East Asian Languages & Cultures


RESEARCH
Media Ethnography
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Anthropology of Modernity
Collective Memory and Cultural Heritage
Critical Mobility Studies
Documentary Practice
China and the Asia-Pacific
Book:
A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
(2014, University of Washington Press) in the series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. For details and reviews, visit the publications page.
Ethnographic Film:
农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness is distributed by Berkeley Media. Most recently, the film screened at HERITALES: International Heritage Film Festival, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.
News:
I recently published an article on bullfights, ethnicity, and vernacular media practices in Southwest China in the journal Asian Anthropology. I'm also working on my current film with support from the
Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship.