Zhiying Ma 马志莹
222-D West Hall
1085 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1107
Phone: 734-764-6858
[email protected]; or
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https://cee-umich.academia.edu/ZhiyingMa
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2016-2018
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows
Faculty Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Program in Anthropology and History
Faculty Affiliate, Science, Technology, and Society Program
2018University of Chicago
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), School of Social Service Administration
EDUCATION
2016
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Joint program in Comparative Human Development & Anthropology
Dissertation: Insanity, Intimacy, and Institution: Governance and Care under the Mental Health Legal
Reform in Contemporary China.
Committee: Judith Farquhar, Eugene Raikhel, Don Kulick, Susan Gal
2010
M.A., University of Chicago
Thesis: Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia in
Contemporary China.
Readers: Judith Farquhar, Eugene Raikhel
2008
Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S. in psychology, rank in class: 1/51; B.A. in philosophy.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medical Anthropology (mental health, public health, global health, health disparities/equity, political economy
of pharmaceuticals); Psychological Anthropology; Political and Legal Anthropology (human rights, welfare
policy, bureaucracy, NGOs and development); Applied Anthropology; Science and Technology Studies;
Disability Studies; Medical Ethics; Ethics of Care; Vulnerability; Gender Studies; Kinship and Family studies;
Everyday Life; Post-socialism; China.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Research Papers
Sherer R, Dong H, Cong Y, Wan J, Chen H, Wang Y, Ma Z, Cooper B, Jiang I, Roth H, & Siegler M. (in
press). “Medical Ethics Education in China: Lessons from Three Schools.” Education for Health.
Li J, Li J, Gabbidon J, Clement S, Ma Z, Guo Y, & Thornicroft G (2014). “Reliability and Validity of the
Chinese Version of Mental Illness: the Clinicians’ Attitudes Scale among Community Mental Health Staff.”
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 4:227-9. [Chinese]
Ma Z (2014). “An ‘Iron Cage’ of Civilization? Missionary Psychiatry and the Making of a ‘Chinese Family’ at
the Turn of the Century.” In Chiang H (ed.), Psychiatry and Chinese History. London: Pickering and Chatto. pp.
91-110.
Ma Z (2014). “Intimate Politics of Life: the Family Subject and Mental Health Legislation.” Thinking.
40(3):42-49. [Chinese]
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Ma Z (2014). “In the Name of Love and Medicine? Understanding the Experience of Female Psychiatric
Inmates from the Perspective of Rights.” In Zhang W (ed.), Research on Disability Rights. Beijing: Social
Sciences Academic Press. pp. 224-249. [Chinese]
Ma Z (2012). “When Love Meets Drugs: Pharmaceuticalizing Ambivalence in Post-Socialist China.” Culture,
Medicine, and Psychiatry. 36:51–77.
Ma Z (2012). “Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of
Schizophrenia in Contemporary China.” In Kipnis A (ed.), Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche. New
York: Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 203-228.
Invited Book Reviews
Ma Z (in press). Review of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China by Elanah Uretsky.
American Ethnologist.
Ma Z (in press). Review of Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China by Jie Yang.
Social Analysis.
Ma Z (2015). Review of Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine by Sonya
Pritzker. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. DOI: 10.1111/maq.12194.
Translation
2015
(with Tao S & Li J) Translated and proofread the Chinese version of Social Work with Disabled
People, fourth edition, by Oliver M, Sapey B & Thomas P, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.
Chinese version published by Beijing: Huaxia Publishing House.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2015-2016 Doctoral Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
(United States).
2015-2016 William Rainey Harper Fellowship, University of Chicago.
–Highest honor for graduate students conferred by the University.
2015-2016 Urban Network Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago.
2015-2016 Toyota Dissertation Fellowship, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. (Declined)
2014
Division of Social Sciences Summer Grant, University of Chicago.
2013
New Generation China Scholar Fellowship, Ford Foundation & the University of Chicago
Center in Beijing.
2013
Disability Rights Research Grant, Wuhan University Public Interest and Development Law
Institute and Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden.
2013
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Pre-dissertation Grant for China Studies.
2012
Small Grant for Research Travel, China and Inner Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies.
2012
Rynerson Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Comparative Human Development, University
of Chicago.
2012
Overseas Research Travel Grant, University of Chicago.
2012
Summer Research Fund, University of Chicago Beijing Center.
2012
Research Fund from Human Rights Program, University of Chicago.
2011
Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Committee of Chinese Studies, University of Chicago.
2011
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship at Needham Research Institute, Cambridge,
U.K.
2011
Lemelson/Society for Psychological Anthropology Pre-dissertation Fund.
2008-2013 Social Sciences Fellowship, University of Chicago.
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2007
2007
2006
2006
Chun-Tsung Scholarship.
–Awarded by National Tsing Hua University in Hsin Chu, Taiwan for outstanding undergraduate
students of Mainland China to undertake research in Taiwan.
Posco Scholarship. Peking University.
Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Undergraduate Research Endowment.
–Awarded annually by the first Chinese Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee for research projects
conducted by undergraduate students.
Samsung Scholarship. Peking University.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016
Third Prize in the Research Paper Contest on the Development of Affairs Related to People
with Disabilities, Guangdong Disabled Person’ Federation.
–Awarded to the paper “Survey Analysis on Employment of Persons with Psychosocial
Disabilities in Communities,” co-authored with Rui Liu, Zhuyun Lin, and Xueping Lin.
2016
Disability Research Interest Group Travel Award, Society for Medical Anthropology, American
Anthropological Association.
2015
Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad, China Scholarship Council.
2015
Bernice Neugarten Lectureship Award, Comparative Human Development, University of
Chicago.
2013
Cultural Horizons Prize Committee Member, Society for Cultural Anthropology.
–I was one of the three graduate student jurors selected across the United States. We were
commissioned to choose the best article published in the SCA’s flagship journal Cultural
Anthropology in 2012 and to present the award at the Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association in Chicago.
2012
Student Committee Endowed Award, Society for Applied Anthropology.
2007
Chun-Tsung Scholar, Peking University.
–Awarded annually to undergraduate students who were selected to conduct and then
successfully completed supervised independent research.
2005
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence. Peking University.
EXPERT CONSULTANCY
2016
Analysis of Rehabilitation and Employment Service Needs of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities.
–Commissioned by the Third People’s Hospital in Foshan, Guangdong, China, I advised the
research team on research design, literature review, implementation methods, and data analysis. I
also gave public lectures on understanding mental illnesses from a medical humanities
perspective.
2015
Empowering Chinese CSOs for A More Inclusive Society for People with Mental Health Problems.
–Contracted by Handicap International, I conducted an assessment mission for the project and
wrote a project proposal to the European Union. The project is a collaboration between
Handicap International, Yunnan Disabled Persons’ Federation, New World Clubhouse of
Kunming, and other local stakeholders in the Yunnan Province. The project has been approved
by the EU, with over 1.3 million euro funding in total. It will run from Jan. 2016 to Jun. 2019.
2015
Gender and Disability: Ten Stories.
–Funded by Ford Foundation, the project interviewed ten Chinese women with or affected by
disabilities and compiled their stories into a book. Contracted by One Plus One (Beijing)
Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Center, I provided suggestions on interview and
writing strategies, and wrote comments for each story.
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2014
Livelihood Project: Improving Access to Employment Market for Persons with Disabilities in the Tibet
Autonomous Region.
–Contracted by Handicap International, I conducted an external evaluation at the project’s
conclusion. The project was implemented by Handicap International, Tibet Disabled Persons’
Federation, and Tibet Disabled Persons’ Vocational Training Center, funded by the European
Union and New Zealand Aid.
ACADEMIC TEACHING
Courses Taught
Winter 2017 The Anthropology of Mental Health, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
Spring 2015 Governing the Body, Health, and Illness, University of Chicago.
–Supported by the Bernice Neugarten Lectureship Award, I designed and taught this upper-level
undergraduate course.
Spring 2015 Disability Law, Wuhan University, China.
–Taught the session “Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Disability” and drafted the corresponding
chapter for the textbook. The session was taught online to undergraduate students in law.
Fall 2011 Power, Identity, and Resistance, University of Chicago.
–Instructor of record for the Social Sciences Core Sequence.
Spring 2011 Power, Identity, and Resistance, University of Chicago.
–Teaching Intern.
Fall 2010 Power, Identity, and Resistance, University of Chicago.
–Teaching Intern.
Fall 2010 Culture, Mental Health, and Psychiatry, University of Chicago.
–Teaching Assistant.
Pedagogical Training
Sept. 2010 Workshop on Teaching in the College, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Chicago.
Teaching Areas
Medical anthropology; psychological anthropology; anthropology of psychiatry and mental health; critical
studies of global health; anthropology of care; disability rights and disability studies; comparative social
policies; anthropology of kinship and family; ethnographic methods; applied/engaged anthropology;
epistemologies and research designs in social sciences; introduction to cultural anthropology; introduction to
science studies; science and medicine in East Asia; anthropology of China.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Panels and Conferences Organized
2015
Panel “Reconfiguring and Remediating the Family: Accounting for a Strange Familiarity in
Contemporary China,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver,
CO. Co-organizer: Erin Raffety. Discussant: Sara Friedman.
2015
Symposium “Disability in the 21st-Century China: From Welfare Subjects to Rightful Citizens?”
University of Chicago. Speakers include leading disability rights activists in China and disability
studies scholars in Chicago. Co-sponsored by the University’s Center for East Asian Studies,
Center for International Studies, and Organization for Students with Disabilities.
2015
Panel “Care and Institutionality in a Time of Global Mental Health,” Society for Psychological
Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA. Co-organizer: Eugene Raikhel. Discussant: MaryJo Delvecchio Good.
2014
Panel “Care as Labor?”, Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Detroit, MI. Coorganizer: Julie Kowalski. Discussant: Andrea Muehlebach.
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2012
Anthropology Graduate Student Conference "Space-time: Toward an Anthropology of
Contemporaneity." University of Chicago Beijing Center.
Invited Presentations
2016
“Enumerating the Social: Governing through Community Mental Health in Post-socialist
China.” Workshop “A Better Life Through Science and Biomedicine?” Fairbank Center for
Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
2013
“In the Name of Love and Medicine? Understanding the Experience of Female Psychiatric
Inmates from the Perspective of Rights.” National Academic Conference on Ethical and Legal
Issues in Psychiatry, Beijing, China.
2011
“Love, Desire, and Madness in Ming-Qing Medical and Literary Texts.” A text reading seminar
presented at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, U.K.
2010
“Psychiatric Subjectivity and Cultural Resistance: Experience and Explanations of Schizophrenia
in Contemporary China.” China Institute Signature Conference “Modernity and the Individual
Psyche,” Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Selected Conference Presentations
2017
“‘How Could the Madman Not Be Chained?’: Domestic Confinement and the Limit of
Community Mental Health in Contemporary China.” Annual Conference of Association for
Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada.
2016
“Waiting for the Parent State: Suffering, Sociality, and Citizenship among Family Caregivers for
People with Severe Mental Illnesses in Post-socialist China.” Annual Meeting of American
Anthropology Association, Minneapolis, MN.
2015
“Guan, Hope, and Biopolitical Abductions in Contemporary China.” Annual Meeting of
American Anthropology Association, Denver, CO.
2015
“Rights, Responsibilities, and Risks: Negotiating Involuntary Hospitalization under the New
Mental Health Legal Reform in China.” Culture and Global Mental Health: Society for the Study
of Psychiatry and Culture Annual Meeting. Providence, RI.
2015
“Intimate Politics of life: Mental Health Legislation Reform and the Making of the Family in
Contemporary China.” Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.
2014
“From Care to Guan: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Intimate Labor and Biopolitics in China.”
Biennial Meetings of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Detroit, MI.
2013
“Care, Control, and/or Confinement? Moral Ambivalence and the Limits of Humanitarianism in
Chinese Community Psychiatry.” Annual Meeting of American Anthropology Association,
Chicago, IL.
2013
“Intimate Politics of Life: Mental Health Law Reform and the Family-Institution Circuit in
Contemporary China.” Annual Conference of the American Association for the History of
Medicine, Chicago, IL.
2012
“ ‘Sloughs of Despond?’ Early Chinese Psychiatry’s Constructions of the Family and Their
Aftermaths.” Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada.
2012
“When Love Meets Drugs: Pharmaceuticalizing Ambivalence in Post-Socialist China.” Joint
Conference of Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology,
Baltimore, MD.
2011
“The Will to Truth, the Will to Intervention: Preliminary Reflections on the Epistemology and
Ethics of Medical Anthropology Fieldwork.” Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological
Anthropology, Santa Monica, CA.
Training Workshops
2016
Disability, Sexuality, Rights Online Institute.
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–Program organized by Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA), India.
2015
Interdisciplinary Training Program: “Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine in East Asia.”
–Program organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Hong Kong Institute for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, and Nankai University. Beijing, China.
2012-2013 Interdisciplinary Research Training Program on Disability Rights Studies.
–Program organized by Wuhan University Law School, China, and the Raoul Wallenberg
Institute of Human Rights, Sweden.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Discussant and Chair at Conferences and Workshops
Mar. 2016 Co-discussant for Joseph Dumit, “An End to Mental Health Research? Global Market View,”
Medicine and Its Objects Workshop, University of Chicago.
Jun. 2015 Discussant for Megan Crowley-Matoka, “Operating (for) Legitimacy: Pain, Ambiguity, and
Surgical Recursion in ‘Failed Back Surgery Syndorme’,” Medicine and Its Objects Workshop,
University of Chicago.
May 2015 Discussant for the session “Developing Continuous Care in Public Mental Health” in the
workshop “Mental Health Care in Contemporary China,” Department of Global Health and
Social Medicine, Harvard University.
Nov. 2014 Chair of the session “Community Partnerships” in Current Issues and Future Directions in the
Anthropology of Mental Health: The inaugural meeting of the Anthropology and Mental Health
Interest Group. Washington, DC.
Apr. 2012 Discussant for Rebecca Seligman, “Healing the Embodied Self in Candomblé,” Clinical
Ethnography Workshop, University of Chicago.
Jun. 2010 Discussant for Neely Myers, “Culture, Stress and Recovery from Schizophrenia: Lessons from
the Field for Global Mental Health,” Clinical Ethnography Workshop, University of Chicago.
Apr. 2010 Chair of the session “Excavation” in the conference “Everyday Matters”, University of Chicago.
Review and Editing
Ad hoc reviewer for American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology, and Anthropology of South Africa.
2017
Reviewer for Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
2016
Reviewer for postdoctoral applications to the Michigan Society of Fellows.
2015
Member of the scientific review board for the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of
Psychiatry and Culture.
2013-2015 Book Review Editor, Student Anthropologist, the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the National
Association of Student Anthropologists.
Others
2012-2015 Member of the Faculty Steering Committee of the Wuhan University Medical Education Reform
(WUMER) Project, University of Chicago.
–I mainly participated in designing and analyzing the results of a survey on curricula of
physician-patient communication, professionalism, and medical ethics in Chinese medical
schools. The survey’s results will be used to guide curriculum reform in selected medical schools.
2012
Rapporteur of “Knowledge/Value III: Information, Archive, Database,” a conference co-hosted
by the Institute of Anthropology at Renmin University of China and the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Beijing, China.
2011-2012 Contributor to “In the Journals…” (a column on latest journal publications in medical
anthropology) on the website “Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology.”
2009-2010 Student Coordinator of the Medicine, Body and Practice Workshop, University of Chicago.
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2008
Research Assistant to Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang. Translated the chapter “Meaning of
Life” in their book Ten Thousand Things from English to Chinese.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Popular and Advocacy Writing in Chinese
2015
Comments to Gender and Disability: Ten Stories. Beijing: One Plus One Disabled Persons’ Cultural
Development Center.
2015
“Sex, Irrelevant to Disability: Introduction to Don Kulick and Jens Rydström’s Loneliness and Its
Opposite.” Youren Magazine. Beijing: One Plus One Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development
Center. Issue 8.
2014
“Hiding from Discrimination or Begging for Leniency? Reflections on the Physical Examination
Standards of the College Entrance Exam.” Youren Magazine. Beijing: One Plus One Disabled
Persons’ Cultural Development Center. Issue 7.
2014
“Staring Hurts: Introduction to Rosemarie Garland-Thompon’s Staring: How We Look.” Youren
Magazine. Beijing: One Plus One Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Center. Issue 6.
2014
“On the ‘Abandoned Island,’ from the Perspectives of Disability and Care.” Youren Magazine.
Beijing: One Plus One Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Center. Issue 6.
2014
“Touch, Care, Love: On the Movie Intouchables.” Youren Magazine. Beijing: One Plus One
Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Center. Issue 5.
Invited Talks and Conference Participation for the Interested Public
2016
Invited participant of “The More the Merrier: Multidisciplinary Research on Disability Rights
Workshop,” Hong Kong, China.
2016
“Introduction to Culture and Mental Health,” and “Guardianship and Care under the Mental
Health Law.” The Third People’s Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong, China.
2015
“How to Evaluate a Project on Disabilities.” Training Camp for Youth Leaders with Disabilities
in China. Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
2014
“Risks, Rights, Responsibilities: Implementing the Mental Health Law in China.” Conference
“UN CRPD and Paradigm Shift,” Kunming, Yunnan, China.
2013
Invited participant of “The Fifth Conference on Inclusive Education and Employment for
University Students with Disabilities in China”, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
2013
Invited participant of the conference “Sino-European Civil Society Dialogue: Rights of Persons
with Disabilities”, Beijing, China.
2013
Invited participant of the conference “Transforming Community for the Inclusion of Persons
with Psychosocial Disability”, Pune, India.
2013
“Community Mental Health in the United States.” Department of Community Mental Health,
Guangzhou Psychiatric Hospital.
2013
“Comparison of Community Mental Health Services in China and India.” EJI Partner Research
Workshop, Equity and Justice Initiative, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, May 2013.
2008
“China: Modernization as Reflected in Rural and Urban Regions.” Von Steuben High School,
Chicago, IL.
VOLUNTEER TEACHING
2013-2014 Basic Computer Skills.
–Voluntary teacher at Likang Family Resource Center, Guangzhou, China. Students were family
caregivers of persons with mental illnesses.
2005-2006 Tutor for International Students, Students’ International Communication Association, Office of
International Relations, Peking University, China.
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2005
Emotional Management.
–Voluntary teacher at Beijing Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents, China.
SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE
2014-2015 Coordinator for the network and website “Wholehearted China.”
–A mental health network involving international and, national, and local NGOs working on
mental health issues in China, funded by AIFO China.
2013-2015 Founded and maintained the Chinese online public interests group Issues in Disability and Gender.
2013
Interpreter of the “Sino-American Workshop on Advanced Training of Psychoanalysis”,
Guangzhou, China.
2013
Interpreter of the conference “New Developments in Community Mental Health”, Guangzhou,
China.
Dec. 2012 Volunteer of the Chinatown Pro Bono Legal Clinic, Chinese American Service League, Chicago.
2012
Interpreter of the workshop “How to Break through the Care Dilemma: Exploring Welfare
Policies for Adults with Mental and Intellectual Disabilities.” Department of Sociology, Peking
University.
2008-2009 Volunteer of Best Buddies International, Chicago.
2005
Hospice Service Volunteer, National Program of Hospice Service, Beijing, China.
–Honored as Outstanding Volunteer by Li Ka-Shing Foundation and Beijing Cancer Hospital.
LANGUAGES
Chinese
Proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Conversant with three dialects: Cantonese (native language), Mandarin, Hakka (heritage
language).
English
Proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
French
Intermediary listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Chinese Sign Language
Entrance level.
SPSS
Working knowledge.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Anthropological Association
National Association for Student Anthropologist
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology
Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group
Anthropology of Disability Interest Group
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Association for Asian Studies
Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture
CREDENTIALS
Licensed Assistant Social Worker
Certified in Aug. 2014 by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China.
Chinese Sign Language Interpreter, Level V
Certified in Nov. 2013 by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, China.
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