January 2019

Abridged CV
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SUSAN GREENHALGH
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
21 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
greenhalgh@fas.harvard.edu
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EDUCATION

Columbia University--M.A. and Ph.D in Sociocultural Anthropology, Certificate of East Asian Institute, 1982
Wellesley College--B.A. in Psychology.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Global Health, Public Health, Health Policy;
Anthropology of the State, Governance, and Public Policy; Obesity Epidemic; The Politics of
Reproduction/Population; Gender Studies; Socialism and Post-Socialism; People's Republic of China, Taiwan,
Selected interests in U.S. society

EMPLOYMENT

John King & Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard Univ. (Sept 2018- )
John K. and Wilma C. Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University (2013-August 18 )
Visiting Scholar, Research Center on Public Health, Tsinghua University (Beijing) (Fall 2013)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University (July 2011-18)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine (July 2001-June 2011 )
Faculty-in-Residence, University of California Washington, DC Program (2005-06)
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine (July 1994-June 2001)
Visiting Instructor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (Spring 1993 and 1994)
Senior Associate, Research Division, Population Council (Jan. 1990-June 1994)
Associate, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (1987-89)
Staff Associate, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (Nov. 1984-86)
Berelson Fellow, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (1983-84)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley (1982-83)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Professional Career Achievement Awards

2016-17 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2016-17 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow of Harvard University for scholarly contributions, including the 2015
publication of Fat-talk Nation
2011 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award for Excellence in Writing and Editing in the Population Sciences
2002 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement of the Population Association of America,
honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievement during the first 20 years post-Ph.D

Book and Article Awards

Just One Child, 2010 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the book that makes the
greatest contribution to the understanding of post-1900 China
Just One Child, 2010 Rachel Carson Prize of the Society for the Social Study of Science for the best book in
science studies with social or political relevance

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Just One Child, Honorable Mention, 2010 Senior Book Prize of the American Ethnological Society (AES) for
exemplary work that speaks to contemporary issues beyond the discipline and academy
Just One Child, Honorable Mention, 2009 Gregory Bateson Book Prize of the Society for Cultural
Anthropology (SCA) for interdisciplinary, experimental, innovative work in the spirit of Bateson
“Missile Science, Population Science,” Honorable mention, Gordon White Prize for the most original article in
contemporary Chinese studies, China Quarterly, 2005 (awarded 2006)

Fellowships and Grants

Harvard University Asia Center, Grant for Research on Obesity, Inc? Public and Private in the Making of
China’s Obesity Epidemic (May 2015-December 2016, $19,000).
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Grant for Conference on A Better Life Through Science and
Biomedicine? Troubling an Enduring China Dream (held April 2016, $10,000).
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Grant for Conference on A Better Life Through Science and
Biomedicine? Troubling an Enduring China Dream (to be held April 2016, $5,000).
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Post-PhD Research Grant for Project on Making
Sexual Science and Policy in China (12 months, 2012-13, $17,845). Later declined.
National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Grant for Project on Making Sexual
Science and Policy in China (12 months, 2011-15, $204K).
Center for Asian Studies, UCI, Chew-Liang Chinese Rural Development Research Program, Grant for Project
on An “Army of Violent Bachelors?” Governing Masculinity in Rural China (2010). Later declined.
Center for Asian Studies, UCI, Grant for Research on Producing Poison? Tracing the Supply Chain of
Contaminated Heparin (2008).
Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, UCI, Grant for Research on Gender Consequences of One-Child
Policy (2005)
Center for Asian Studies, UCI, Grant for Research on Gender Consequences of One-Child Policy (2005)
Open Society Institute, Publishing Grants for Two Books on Chinese Population Policy (2004-05)
National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Program, Grant for Project on Population
Science and the Making of China’s One-Child-per-Couple Policy (Summer 2002-Summer 2004)
Newkirk Center for Science and Society, Seed Grant (Spring 2002-Spring 2003)
Open Society Institute, Individual Project Fellowship (Fall 1998-Winter 1999)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Distinguished Visitorship (Fall 1997)
Global Peace & Conflict Studies, UCI, Research Grant (1996-97)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Supplementary Grant (1992-94)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Grant for Research on Political Economy and
Fertility in Rural China (1992-94)
Columbia University, East Asian Institute, Grant for Project on Chinese Entrepreneurship in Taiwan and
Southeast Asia (1989-91)
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute, Columbia University (1989-90)
National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, Grant for Research on Socialist Modernization
and the Demographic Transition in Rural China (1987-89)
Pacific Cultural Foundation, Grant for Research on Family Change in Taiwan (1984)
Berelson Fellowship, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (1983-84)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chinese Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley (1982-83)
Columbia President's Fellowship (1980-81, 1976-77)
American Association of University Women, Dissertation Fellowship (1979-80)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid (1979)
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant (1978-79)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) (1977-78)
Wellesley College Graduate Fellowship (1976-77)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (NDFL) (1975-76)
Columbia University Fellowship (1974-75)

College Honors
Wellesley Scholar (based on grade point average)
Graduation with High Honors (based on thesis)

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Phi Beta Kappa, Wellesley

OTHER HONORS

2018 Annual Kassen Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH,
2 November 2018.

2016 Keynote Speaker, University of Copenhagen Conference on Lifestyle and Kinds of Living:
Opportunities, Conditions, and Biology, 18-19 May 2016.

2012 Annual Future of Social Science Lecture, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 10 May 2012.

2008 Annual Reischauer Lecture Series, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 16-18 April
2008.

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Speaker, Launch Conference for the newly formed British Inter-university China Centre (BICC), London and
Oxford, UK, 27 June 2007.

Opening-night speaker, Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality: Population Politics and Human Rights, Berlin,
Germany, 15-19 February 2007.

PUBLICATIONS
Books

Can Science and Technology Save China? Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Realities. S. Greenhalgh and Li Zhang,
editors. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Forthcoming fall 2019.

Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat. Cornell University Press, 2015, 324 pp.
Paperback edition publ. August 2017. Now being translated for publication in China.

Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures 2008.
Harvard University Press, 2010, 156 pp.

Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. University of California Press, 2008, 403 pp.

Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. S. Greenhalgh and Edwin A.
Winckler. Stanford University Press, 2005, 394 pp.

Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. University of California Press, 2001, 371 pp.

Chinese State Birth Planning in the 1990s and Beyond (S. Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler). Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, for Resource Information Center, U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service, 2001, 260-pp. single-spaced.

Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995, 304 pp.

Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler and S. Greenhalgh, editors.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1988, 320 pp. Chinese translation published by Lujiang Press, Xiamen,
1992. Taiwan edition published by Jen-chien Publishing Co., Taipei, 1994.

English-Chinese and Chinese-English Glossary of Demography, coedited with Ye Xiushu and Zhao Shili.
Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 1989, 906 pp.

Journal articles and book chapters

Making China Safe for Coke: How Coca-Cola Shaped Obesity Science and Policy in China, The BMJ, January
9, 2019.

Soda Industry Influence on Obesity Science and Policy in China, Journal of Public Health Policy, January 9,
2019.

Science and Serendipity: Finding Coca-Cola in China. Forthcoming, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.

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Introduction. The Anthropology of Science and Technology in China. Prepared for inclusion in Can Science
and Technology Save China? Utopian Dreams, Dystopian Realities (details above).

The Good Scientist and the Good Multinational: Managing the Ethics of Industry-Funded Health Science.
Prepared for inclusion in Can Science and Technology Save China? Utopian Dreams, Dystopian
Realities.

Making Demography Astonishing: Lessons in the Politics of Population Science, Demography 55(2), April
2018, pp. 721-731.

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Why Does the End of the One-Child Policy Matter? in The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising
Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2018, pp. 123-128.

Cold War Population Science and Politics in Asia, East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: An
International Journal 10(4), December 2016, pp. 469-474.

Neoliberal Science, Chinese-Style: Making and Managing the “Obesity Epidemic,” Social Studies of Science
46(4), August 2016, pp. 485-510.

Disordered Eating/Eating Disorder: Hidden Perils of the Nation’s Fight Against Fat, Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 30(4), December 2016, pp. 545-562.

Bad Biocitizens? Latinos and the US “Obesity Epidemic,” with Megan A. Carney, Human Organization 73(3),
Fall 2014, pp. 267-276.

“Bare Sticks” and Other Dangers to the Social Body: Assembling Fatherhood in China. In Globalized
Fatherhood, Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and Jose-Alberto Navarro (eds.), Berghahn, 2014, pp.
359-381.

Patriarchal Demographics? China’s Sex Ratio Reconsidered, Population and Development Review 38
Supplement, 2012, pp. 130-149.

Reprinted in The Population of China in the 21st Century, Dudley L. Poston and Gu Baochang, eds.
New York: Springer, 2015.

Weighty Subjects: The Biopolitics of the U.S. War on Fat, American Ethnologist 39(3), August 2012, pp. 471-
487.

Condensed and reprinted in The Gender, Culture and Power Reader, Dorothy Hodgson, ed. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 223-234.

Reprinted in Sociocultural Anthropology: Critical and Primary Sources, Barbara D. Miller, ed. (April
2018). London: Bloomsbury Publ.

On the Crafting of Population Thought, Population and Development Review 38(1), March 2012, pp. 121-131.

Governing Chinese Life: From Sovereignty to Biopolitical Governance. In Governance of Life in Chinese
Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life, Everett Yuehong Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and
Weiming Tu, eds. New York: Routledge, 2010, pp. 146-162.

China’s Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-Child Norm, and Masculinization of Child Sex
Ratios. In Reproductive Health in a Neoliberalizing World, Mohan Rao and Sarah Sexton, eds. New
Delhi: Sage, 2010, pp. 299-337.

The Chinese Biopolitical: Facing the Twenty-First Century, New Genetics and Society 28(3), September 2009,
pp. 205-222.

Governing China’s Population: The State Planning of Unplanned Persons. In Between Life and Death:
Governing Population in an Era of Human Rights, Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos, eds. Bern
and Berlin: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 75-98.

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Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China’s One-Child Policy, The China Quarterly 182,
June 2005, pp. 253-276.

Reprinted in Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in
Modern China, Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2013, pp.
305-331.

Labeling Woefulness: The Social Construction of Fibromyalgia, with Nortin M. Hadler, Spine: An
International Journal for the Study of the Spine 30(1), 2004, 1-4.

Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China. Reprinted in People’s Republic of China, Vol. 1: Natural
Resources, Population and Social Life, Frank N. Pieke, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publ., 2002, pp.
121-148.
Anthropological Engagements with China’s One-Child Policy: Controversies, Contradictions, Productivities.
Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice 11(1), 2004, 27-34.

Globalization and Population Governance in China. In Global Assemblages: Technology, Governmentality,

Ethics, Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 354-372.

Making Up China's "Black Population." In Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies
in Critical Demography, Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam, eds. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004, pp. 148-172.

Short Comments, in New Reflections on the Anthropological Studies of (Greater) China, Liu Xin, ed.
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2004, pp. 16-19.

Science, Modernity, and the Making of China’s One-Child Policy. Population and Development Review 29(2),
June 2003, pp. 163-196.

Reprinted in The Population of China in the 21st Century, Dudley L. Poston and Gu Baochang, eds.
New York: Springer, 2015.

Reprinted in Women in Asia, vol. 3, Health and Sexuality, Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, eds.
London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 131-165.

Planned Births, Unplanned Persons: "Population" in the Making of Chinese Modernity. American Ethnologist
30(2), May 2003, pp. 196-215.

Women’s Rights and Birth Planning in China: New Spaces of Political Action, New Opportunities for
American Engagement. In Women’s Rights and China’s New Family Planning Law: Roundtable
before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, 23
September 2002. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 11-14, 53-56. Also at
http://www.cecc.gov.

Fresh Winds in Beijing: Chinese Feminists Speak Out on the One-Child Policy and Women's Lives. Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26(3), Spring 2001, pp. 847-886.

Toward a Reflexive Population Studies for the Twenty-first Century (Por uma abordagem reflexiva para
estudos de populacao para no Seculo XXI). In The Demography of Social Exclusion (Demografia da
Exclusao Social), Maria Coleta de Oliveira, ed. Sao Paulo: Editora da Unicamp (University of
Campinas Press), 2001, pp. 25-46.

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Fertility: Political and Political-Economic Perspectives. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. Oxford: Elsevier, 2001, Vol. 8, pp.
5547-5554.

Managing "The Missing Girls" in Chinese Population Discourse. In Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive
Health, Carla Maklouf Obermeyer, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 131-152.

Methods and Meanings: Reflections on Disciplinary Difference. Population and Development Review 23(4),
December 1997, pp. 819-825.

The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political History of 20th
Century Demography. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(1), January 1996, pp. 26-66.

Anthropology Theorizes Reproduction: Integrating Practice, Political Economic, and Feminist Perspectives.
In Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry, Susan Greenhalgh, ed. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 3-28.

Afterword: (Re)capturing Reproduction for Anthropology. In Situating Fertility: Anthropology and

Demographic Inquiry, Susan Greenhalgh, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp.
259-263.

Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction
(with Jiali Li). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 20(3), Spring 1995, pp. 601-641.

Reprinted in Gender and Scientific Authority, Barbara Laslett, Sally Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, and
Evelynn Hammonds, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 391-431.

De-Orientalizing the Chinese Family Firm. American Ethnologist, 21(4), November 1994, pp. 742-771.

Restraining Population Growth in Three Chinese Villages (with Zhu Chuzhu and Li Nan). Population and
Development Review, 20(2), June 1994, pp. 365-395.

Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China. American Ethnologist, 21(1), February 1994, pp. 1-30.

The Peasant Household in the Transition from Socialism: State Intervention and its Consequences in China.
In The Economic Anthropology of the State, Elizabeth Brumfiel, ed. Lanham: University Press of
America, 1994, pp. 43-94.

The Peasantization of Population Policy in Shaanxi. In Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era, Deborah Davis
and Stevan Harrell, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, pp. 219-250.

State-Society Links: The Politics of Population Policies and Programmes, with special reference to China. In
Family Planning Programmes and Fertility, James F. Phillips and John A. Ross, eds. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1992, pp. 276-298.

Population Studies in China: Privileged Past, Anxious Future. Reprinted in The Population of Modern China,
Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey, eds. New York: Plenum, 1992, pp. 19-46.

Nüxing Renkou Fenxi de Guoji Bijiao (Chinese Women in Comparative Perspective). In Zhongguo Nüxing
Renkou (Chinese Women), Zhu Chuzhu and Jiang Zhenghua, eds. Zhengzhou: Henan People's Press,
1991, pp. 314-338.

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Toward a Political Economy of Fertility: Anthropological Contributions. Population and Development Review,
16(1), March 1990, pp. 85-106.

Translated and published as Vers Une Economie Politique de la Fecondite: Contributions

Anthropologique.” In Les Theories de la Fecondite, Henri Leridon (ed.). Paris: Editions de L’Ined,
coll. Textes Fondamentaux, 2014.

Reprinted in The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development, Paul Demeny and Geoffrey
McNicoll, eds. London: Earthscan, 1998.

Socialism and Fertility in China. In World Population: Approaching the Year 2000, Special Issue of The
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Samuel Preston, ed., July 1990, pp.
73-86.

Population Studies in China: Privileged Past, Anxious Future. The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 24,
July 1990, pp. 357-384.

Reprinted in The Population of Modern China, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey, eds. New
York: Plenum, 1992, pp. 19-46.

The Evolution of the One-Child Policy in Shaanxi, 1979-88. The China Quarterly, 122, June 1990, pp. 191-
229.

New Directions in Fertility Research: Anthropological Perspectives. In Proceedings of General Conference of

IUSSP, New Delhi, 20-27 September 1989. Liege: IUSSP, vol. 3, pp. 437-449.

Nongcun Shengyü Xuqiu Fenxi (An Analysis of the Demand for Children in Rural China) (with Li Nan and
Jiang Zhenghua). Chinese Population Science (Zhongguo Renkou Kexue), 6, 1989, pp. 16-20, 25.

Social Causes and Consequences of Taiwan's Postwar Economic Development. In Anthropological Studies of
the Taiwan Area: Accomplishments and Prospects, Kwang-chih Chang, Kuang-chou Li, Arthur P.
Wolf, and Alexander Chien-chung Yin, eds. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 1989, pp. 351-
390.

Land Reform and Family Entrepreneurship in East Asia. In Population and Rural Development: Institutions
and Policies, Geoffrey McNicoll and Mead Cain, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 77-
118.

Chinese Family Policy: Negative Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa. In Population Policy in Sub-Saharan
Africa: Drawing on International Experience. Liege: International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population, 1989, pp. 591-630.

Fertility as Mobility: Sinic Transitions. Population and Development Review, 14(4), December 1988, pp. 629-
674.

Families and Networks in Taiwan's Economic Development. In Contending Approaches to the Political
Economy of Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler and Susan Greenhalgh, eds. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
1988, pp. 224-245.

Reprinted in China, Korea, and Taiwan, vol. II, The Political Economy of East Asia, John Ravenhill,
ed. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publ., 1995.

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Analytical Issues and Historical Episodes (with Edwin A. Winckler). In Contending Approaches to the
Political Economy of Taiwan, 1988, pp. 3-19.

Supranational Processes of Income Distribution. In Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of

Taiwan, 1988, pp. 67-100.

Intergenerational Contracts: Familial Roots of Sexual Stratification in Taiwan. In A Home Divided: Women
and Income in the Third World, Daisy Dwyer and Judith Bruce, eds. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1988, pp. 39-70.

Fertility Policy in China: Future Options (with John Bongaarts). Science, 235, 6 March 1987, pp. 1167-1172.

Reprinted in The Population of Modern China, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey, eds. New
York: Plenum, 1992, pp. 401-419.

Shifts in China's Population Policy, 1984-1986: Views from the Central, Provincial and Local Levels.
Population and Development Review, 12(3), September 1986, pp. 491-515.

An Alternative to the One-child Policy in China (with John Bongaarts). Population and Development Review,
11(4), December 1985, pp. 585-617.

Is Inequality Demographically Induced? The Family Cycle and the Distribution of Income in Taiwan.
American Anthropologist, 87(3), September 1985, pp. 571-594.

Sexual Stratification: The Other Side of 'Growth with Equity' in East Asia. Population and Development
Review, 11(2), June 1985, pp. 265-314.

Networks and Their Nodes: Urban Society on Taiwan. The China Quarterly, 99, September 1984, pp. 529-
552.

Income Units: The Ethnographic Alternative to Standardization. In Income Distribution and the Family,
Yoram Ben-Porath, ed. Supplement to Population and Development Review, 8, 1982, pp. 70-91.

Bound Feet, Hobbled Lives: Women in the Old China. Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies, 2(1), Spring
1977, pp. 7-21.
COLLOQUIUM AND CONFERENCE PAPERS, most recent 10 years

“Big Soda”: Artifact of Corporate Boundary-Drawing Practices. Presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, San Jose CA, 14-18 November 2018.

The War on Science: Anthropology and the Crisis of Expertise. Invited roundtable commentary, 2018 Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose CA, 14-18 November 2018.

Big Pharma, Big Soda, and the Management of the Global Obesity Epidemic, Kassen Lecture, Department of
Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, 2 November 2018.

The Corporate Production of Sport Science in the Age of Obesity. Presented at 2017 Annual Meeting of the 4S
(Society for the Social Study of Science), Boston MA, 30 August-2 September 2017.

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The One-child Policy is Gone: So What? Invited talk, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Mid-Autumn
Festival, 14 September 2016.

Meet the Thin, Fit Biocitizen. Invited keynote, University of Copenhagen, Conference on Lifestyle and Kinds of
Living: Opportunities, Conditions, and Biology, 18 May 2016.

Lifestyles, Living Styles, Invited talk, University of Copenhagen, Conference on Lifestyle and Kinds of Living:
Opportunities, Conditions, and Biology, 19 May 2016.

Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat. Invited paper, Friday Morning Seminar in Culture,
Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard
University, Cambridge MA, 13 November 2015.

Is Disease Too a Market? Big Pharma, Big Food, and the Making of China’s “Obesity Epidemic.” Research
colloquium, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 9 October 2015.

Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s Fight Against Fat. Invited talk, presented to the Institute for
Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 9 October 2015.

Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat. Invited paper, presented to the Anthropology
Department, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, 2 October 2015.

Is Disease Itself a Market Now? Big Pharma, Big Food, and the Invention of China’s “Obesity Epidemic.”
Invited talk on Anthropology Day, Anthropology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 11
September 2015.

Fat-talk Nation. Invited talk, delivered to the Special Interest Group on Public Health, International Conference
on Eating Disorders, Academy of Eating Disorders (AED), Boston MA, 23 April 23.

Fat-talk Nation. Invited lecture, presented in the Different Lenses, One Vision Series, Harvard School of Public
Health, Boston, MA, 21 April 2015. Offered for graduate credit in clinical training: weight sensitivity.

Disordered Eating/Eating Disorder: Hidden Perils of the Nation’s Fight Against Fat. Invited paper, presented to
the Anthropology Department, Brown University, 3 April 2015.

Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s Fight Against Fat. Invited speed-talk, presented at the Harvard
Food+ Research Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 28 February 2015.

Governing the National Body in an Era of Advanced Marketization. Presented at 2014 Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 3-7 December 2014.

Biogovernance in the Making of Global China. Invited paper, presented at the Conference on Science, Identity,
and Ethnicity: States and Citizens in Global Knowledge Regimes, Harvard University, Cambridge MA,
24-25 April 2014.

Obesity, Inc? Fat Science and Politics in China. Invited paper, presented to the STS Circle, Harvard University,
Cambridge MA, 21 April 2014.

The BMI and the Constitution of the Global Obesity Epidemic. Invited paper, presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Ethnological Society, Boston MA, 10-11 April 2014.

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A Slow and Shameful Death. Invited paper, presented at the Anthropology Colloquium, New School for Social
Research, 12 March 2014.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Obesity Epidemic: Will China Follow the Path of the US? Invited paper,
presented at the Research Center on Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 16 November 2013.

Making Up the Obesity Epidemic: STS Looks at Obesity Science and Policy. Invited paper, presented at the
Institute for Science, Technology, and Society, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 8 November 2013.

Bio-Bullies in Our Midst: Does Fat Shaming Work? Invited paper, presented to the Science and Technology
Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, 6 May 2013

Bio-Bullies in Our Midst. Invited paper, presented at the Social Anthropology Seminar Series, Harvard
University, 11 February 2013.

Weighty Subjects: The Biopolitics of the U. S. War on Fat. Invited annual lecture, Institute for Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, 10 May 2012.

State Coercion, Popular Resistance: China Stories that Matter. Invited paper, presented to the conference on
Body & State: How the State Controls and Protects the Body, hosted by the Center for Public
Scholarship, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 10-12 February 2011.

Response, Author-Meets-Critics Session. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S),
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 28 August 2010.

Making Up China’s One-Child Policy. Invited paper, presented to the East Asian Studies Center, University of
California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 5 May 2010.

My BMI, My Self. Invited paper, presented at the conference on BIOS: Life, Death, Politics, hosted by the Unit
for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 30 April - 1 May 2010.

Bill Skinner on Gender and Family. Presented at 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies,
Philadelphia, PA, 25-28 March 2010.

Making Up Policy, Making Up People: An Ethnography of State and Science in China. Invited talk. Presented to
the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 24 February 2010.

Masculinity at Risk. Invited talk, presented to the Cluster on Anthropology, School of Social Development and
Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China, 9 September 2009.

“Too Many Chinese!” Population Science and the Making of Chinese Politics and Culture. Invited paper,
presented at Symposium on Culture Meets Demography, Center for Literary and Cultural Research,
Berlin, Germany, 2-4 July 2009.

The Rise of Human Governance. Presented at 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, San Francisco, CA, 19-23 November 2008.

Just One Child! Population Science and Politics in Contemporary China. Invited paper, presented to the
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence RI, 6 November 2008.

The Chinese Biopolitical. Invited paper, presented at Workshop on Asian Biopolitics, University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria, 9-10 October 2008.

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Just One Child! Population Science and Politics in Contemporary China. Invited paper, presented to Department
of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park MD, 7 October 2008.

Population in the Rise of Global China (and Vietnam), Reischauer Lectures: I. From Quantity to Quality:
Population Governance in China (and Vietnam); II. Transforming Society: Making Global Persons and
Families; III. Vital Politics: Remaking China’s State and Global Position. Invited lectures delivered at
Harvard University, 16-18 April 2008.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

Association for Asian Studies
Society for East Asian Anthropology
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology

TEACHING

Courses taught

China Through Ethnography and Film (Undergraduate seminar)

State and Society in Contemporary China (Upper-division undergraduate course)
Ethnography of Contemporary China (Graduate seminar)
Readings in Chinese Society and Culture (Graduate course)
The Anthropology of Public Policy (Upper-division undergraduate course, UCDC)
The Woman and the Body (Upper-division undergraduate course)
Writing the Self (Upper-division undergraduate writing seminar)
Gender and Globalization (Graduate seminar)
Contemporary Ethnography (Graduate seminar)
Social Bodies: The Anthropology of Population (Graduate seminar)
Science, Technology, and the Reproductive Body (Graduate seminar)
Anthropology of Governance (Graduate seminar)
The Anthropology of Governing: Numbers and the Invention and Governance of Populations (Graduate seminar)
The Anthropology of Modernity (Graduate seminar)
The Anthropology of Public Policy (Graduate seminar)
Biopolitics (Graduate seminar)
Anthropological Fieldwork Methods (Graduate seminar)
Grant and Proposal Writing (Graduate seminar)
Dissertation Writing (Graduate seminar)

Visiting Instructor, Princeton University (Spring Semester 1993 and 1994)--Taught graduate seminar on Gender
and Development at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs

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