Paper short abstract:

Luo will share her reflections on wildlife conservation in southwest China and the China-Africa ivory trade from an anthropological perspective. Her research interest includes ethnicity and indigeneity, Asian borderlands, heritage and tourism, urban-rural transformation, and China’s global nexus.

Paper long abstract:

Yu Luo has been working at the City University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese and History from 2017 to 2021. She will be joining the University of Puget Sound as the Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair of Contemporary China Studies starting from Fall 2021. Her publications appeared in Modern China, Social Anthropology, Verge: Global Studies in Asias, Social and Cultural Geography, and International Journal of Heritage Studies, as well as a contribution to the Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China. Luo holds a Bachelor’s degree in environmental economics from Beijing University and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Yale University. She was a 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California Berkeley.