I’m a STS scholar and a political and economic anthropologist. Currently, I’m a Harvard Academy Scholar at Harvard University. I received my PhD in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I study the relationship between computational technologies and governance in China, particularly as impacted by emerging global systems of technology and finance. Based on my dissertation research, my first book project, The Weight of Scale, explores the confluence of venture capitalism, digital economy, and Chinese statecraft. Through fieldwork with venture capital investors, start-up founders, and their corporate and government partners, I investigate how their understanding and practices of nested logics of “scale" herald new configurations of Chinese state and society. In parallel, I also research the implications of China's internet culture and digital economy for governance and civil discourse.
My dissertation research was supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.