Associate Professor of Anthropology, Religious Studies; Director, Program in Religious Studies
Ph.D. Chicago 1989.

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Research Interests:

Cultural history/historical anthropology; critical theories of religion; religions of China; religion and media; history and anthropology of embodiment; performance and subjectivity.

Affiliations:

Association for Asian Studies, China and Inner Asia Council; American Academy of Religion, section on Critical Theories and Discourses of Religion; American Anthropological Association; American Ethnological Society.

Fellowships/Honors:

The Pew Charitable Trusts grant for $3 million to co-found with Faye Ginsburg the Center for Religion and Media at NYU in 2003; Chiang-ching Kuo Foundation post-doctoral fellowship, 1997; Gladys Brookes Teaching Award, Barnard College, 1995; National Endowment for the Humanities summer 1994; National Academy of Sciences – National Committee for Communication with the People's Republic of China post-doctoral fellowship, 1991-92; Social Science Research Foundation grant 1980-82; Committee for Communication with the People's Republic of China, advanced study award 1979-80.

Selected Works:

"Can television mediate religious experience? The theology of Joan of Arcadia" in Religion: Beyond the Concept, edited by Hent deVries, Fordham University Press, 2007.

"Secularizing the pain of foot-binding in China: Missionary and medical stagings of the universal body" in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.1 (March 2007): 1-24.

"Things Chinese" and "This is not a façade" in Making Things Public, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Wiebel.  (Catalogue for exhibit in the ZKM Center for Art and Media of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2005.)

"Bound to be represented: theorizing/fetishizing footbinding," in Modernity Incarnate: Refiguring Body Politics in China, eds. Larissa Macfarquhar and Fran Martin. University of Hawaii, 2006.

"Purchasing parents in 17th century China” (Zai chiqi shiji Zhongguo mai fumu). In Ming Qing qingyu (Sentiments and Desires in Ming-Qing China), Academi Sinica, Taiwan, 2004.

Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Body, Subject and Power in China, co-edited with Tani Barlow. University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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