Research Scholars
Expertise: Migration; race & ethnicity; labor and global capitalism; diversity & conviviality; urban anthropology; anthropology of food; Southern Europe; Italy; Chinese Diaspora; global China
Deng is currently a European Commission Marie Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a former postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center. She received her Ph.D. degree in anthropology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Expertise: Multispecies relations, care, race, affect, cuteness, wildlife conservation, chimpanzees, postcolonism, Africa
Expertise: Medical and cultural anthropology, anthropology of death and dying, anthropology of religion, anthropology of gender, anthropology of the body, medical aid-in-dying, end-of-life care, Ethiopia, United States
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Expertise: Political ecology, Africa, conservation, development, wildlife tourism and trophy hunting, forestry, mining, agriculture, gender, race, nationality
Expertise: Cultures of finance and financialization, cultural anthropology, applied anthropology and research methods, economic and political anthropology, the creation and destruction of social inequality
Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, African languages and international justice, the international judiciary, African urban speech varieties, U.S. immigration and refugee resettlement from Africa