Curriculum Vitae
NON ARKARAPRASERTKUL
Global Postdoctoral Fellow
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anthropology (All But Dissertation)
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Master of Arts (MA) in Anthropology
The University of Oxford
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Modern Chinese Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Master of Science in Architecture Studies in History, Theory,
Criticism of Art and Architecture & Architecture and Urbanism
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Urban Design Certificate
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok
Bachelor of Architecture, First Class Honors
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Global Postdoctoral Fellowship, New York University Shanghai
Fudan Fellowship, Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC), Fudan
University, Shanghai, P.R. China
Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching (2 awards in 1 semester)
Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, Harvard University
Harvard-China Scholarship Council (CSC) Research Scholarship
Harvard Asia Center Dissertation Research Grant for Chinese Studies (2 times)
Graduate Society Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts &
Sciences (GSAS), Harvard University
Urban Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, The Association of American
Geographers (AAG)
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Graduate Summer Research Grant (2 times)
Conference Grant, Harvard University’s Department of Anthropology (2 times)
“Thailand at Harvard” Research Grant, Harvard University Asia Center
Harvard-Yenching Institute Doctoral Scholarship
Winter Institute Scholarship, Shanghai Theatre Academy (co-organized by Brown,
New York, Princeton, and Yale Universities)
China Reform and Governance Fellowship (CRG), Australian National University
Asia Pacific Program
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Conference Travel Grant (2 times)
Travel Scholarship, Global City and Culture Center, Warwick University
Travel Scholarship, Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA)
Graduate Summer Language Grant, Harvard Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese
Studies, Korea Institute, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (2 times)
Torino-China Summer School Scholarship, Faculty of Political Science,
The University of Turin, Italy
Travel & Research Scholarship, The Project of Empowering Network for International
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2015
2010
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2014 – Present
2014 – Present
2013
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2013 – 2014
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2012, 2013
2012, 2013
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2008 – 2012
2011
2011
2012, 2013
2011
2011
2011, 2012
2010
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Thai Studies (ENITS), Institute of Thai Studies, Bangkok
Visiting Student Fellowship, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy,
The Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
China Research Award, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies,
The University of Oxford
J. William Fulbright & International Institute of Education (IIE) Scholarships
C.V. Starr Foundation Fellowship (via Asian Cultural Council, New York)
Excellent Researcher, Thammasat University, Bangkok
Best Paper Award, The Sixth China Urban Housing Conference, Beijing
Graduate Student Council (GSC) Conference Travel Grant, MIT
MIT Avalon Conference Travel Grant, MIT
Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Travel & Research Award
W. Danfort Compton Memorial Graduate Fellowship, MIT
Best Student Award, KMITL (5 consecutive times)
2009
2009
2005 – 2007
2005 – 2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005 – 2007
1999 – 2004
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “The Poetics of Ecological Urbanity: Louis Kahn’s Vision for Central Philadelphia
(1956-62).” In A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia, Ecology, and the Material Imagination, edited by Alan C.
Braddock & Laura Turner (Penn State University Press; invited submission, expected Spring 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul & Matthew Williams, “Mobility in a Global City: Urbanization and the Transportation
Infrastructure in Shanghai” (research article under review, expected Spring 2015/Fall 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “In Praise of the ‘Coffin’: Japanese Capsule Hotel and Creative Urban Sociality.” In
Politics and Aesthetics of Creativity: City, Culture and Space in East Asia, edited by Lu Pan, Dixon Heung Wah
Wong & Karin Ling-fung Chau (Bridge21 Press; invited submission, unconditionally accepted, expected
Spring 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Creative Class in a Global City: Tourism, Heritage Industry, and the Political
Economy of Urban Space in Shanghai.” In Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City, edited by Johannes Novy
and Claire Colomb (Routledge; accepted, expected Spring 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Housing and Heritage: The Politics of Historic Preservation in the Global City of
Shangai.” In Urban Knowledge Network Asia Research Paper Series, edited by Dr. Paul Rabé (International Institute
for Asian Studies & University of Amsterdam Press, accepted, Spring 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Spatial Change and Housing in Shanghai: An Ethnography of the Urban MiddleClass and a Crypto-Colonial Shanghai” (research article under review; expected Summer 2014/Fall 2014)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Anthro/Tecture as a Method for Re-Thinking Urban Intervention” (research article
under review; expected Spring 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “What has happened to our morality?”: An Ethnography of Moral Experience and the
Search for Meanings of Contemporary Chinese Morality (research article under review; expected Spring 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “A Response to Heritage beyond the boundaries: A manifesto,” The Newsletter of the
International Institute for Asian Studies 69, no. Autumn (2014): 23。
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Traditionalism as a Way of Life: The Sense of Home in Shanghai Alleyway” Harvard
Asia Quarterly XV, no. 3/4 (2013): 15 – 25.
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Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Urbanization and Housing: Socio-Spatial Conflicts over Urban Space in
Contemporary Shanghai.” In Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, edited by G.
Byrne Bracken. IIAS Series, 139-64. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (distributed in the US by the
University of Chicago Press, 2012): 139 – 163.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Moral Global Storytelling: Reflections on Place and Space in Shanghai's Urban
Neighborhoods.” Storytelling, Self, Society 8, no. 3 (2012): 167-79.
Non Arkaraprasertkul & Jacob Dreyer. “Space of Inertia: Shanghai’s Deep Structure.” you are here: Journal of
Creative Geography 14, no. 1 (2011): 69-86.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Leaping Beyond Nostalgia: Shanghai's Urban Life Ethnography.” The Newsletter of the
International Institute for Asian Studies 55, no. Autumn/Winter (2010): 28-29.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Power, Politics, and the Making of Shanghai.” Journal of Planning History 9, no. 4
(2010): 232-59.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Dynamic Soi: Neighborhoods and Urban Life in the City of Bangkok.” Rian Thai:
International Journal of Thai Studies 3, no. 1 (2010): 155-184.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Crypto-Urbanism: Retrofitting Tokyo.” Journal of Urbanism: International Research on
Placemaking and Urban Sustainability (2010): 127 - 29.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Beyond Preservation: Rebuilding Old Shanghai.” Exposition Magazine of the University of
Oxford 3, Hilary Term (2010): 10-18.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form: How Divergent Planning Methods
Transformed Shanghai's Urban Identity. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009.
Non Arkaraprasertkul & Reilly Paul Rabitaille. “Differences, Originality and Assimilation: Building Nine at
Panabhandhu School.” Thresholds 35 (2009): 8-15.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Towards Modern Urban Housing: Redefining Shanghai's lilong.” Journal of Urbanism:
International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 2, no. 1 (2009): 11-29. **Selected as one of the Best
100 Papers on improving cities and the quality of urban life by Routledge for World Habitat Day 2010 (see
details: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/world-habitat-day.pdf)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “On Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Postmodernism, and Architecture.” Architectural
Theory Review 14, no. 1 (2009): 79-94.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Resilient Lilong: an Ethnography of Shanghai’s Urban Housing.” Working Papers
Series. Harvard-Yenching Institute (2009) [published and available online only :
http://hyi.scribo.harvard.edu/category/working-paper-series/]
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Visualizing Shanghai: The Ascendancy of the Skylines” (published in English with an
abstract in Thai), East Asian Studies Journal of Thammasat University Institute of East Asian Studies 12: no. 2 (2008):
1-39.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “The Role of Politics in the Design of Cities: A Case Study of Pudong New Area in
Shanghai, People’s Republic of China” (published in Thai with an abstract in English), Chulalongkorn University
Academic Journal of Architecture (AJA) 2 (2008): 101 – 126.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Politicization and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism.” Footprint, no. 2 (2008): 43-52.
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Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Toward Modernist Urban Design: Louis Kahn's Plan for Central Philadelphia.”
Journal of Urban Design 13. no. 2 (2008): 177 – 94.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “A Critical Appearance of Modernism: Building Nine of Panabhandhu School,”
Journal of South East Asian Architecture 9, no. 1 (2006): 13 – 28.
REPORTS, REVIEWS, & OTHER LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS
Non Arkaraprasertkul (with Reilly Rabitaile). “Jan Wampler: The Poet and People’s Architect,” in a special
issue of a bilingual architectural magazine published in Mainland China (expected February 2015)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity by Qin Shao,”
Urban Studies 52, no. 2 (2014): 399 – 401.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “The Function of Poetics in Ethnographic Snaphots,” in an exhibition catalog Up,
Above, Above and Beyond: A Photography exhibition by Nathalie Perakis-Valat (originally written in English with
Chinese translation: 贝灵悦摄影作品 中的诗学功能和 民族志印象), Art Plus Shanghai Gallery (2014): 10 -17.
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Bryce Beemer Chanjittra Chanorn, and Dylan Southard, “Reading Craft in the Global
Ecumene: IIAS Summer School in Chiang Mai, Thailand,” A Report for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation upon
Completion of a Project Funded by the Foundation (October 2014).
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Dylan Southard, with contributions by Henrik Kloppenborg Møller, “The Roundtable
on Cloth, Culture and Development: Part of the IIAS Rethinking Asian Studies Project,” A Report for the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation upon Completion of a Project Funded by the Foundation (October 2014).
Tay, Sue Ann & Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Conversations: Non Arkaraprasertkul and An Anthropologist’s Life
in a Lilong,” Shanghai Street Stories Blog [http://shanghaistreetstories.com /?p=6986] (2014).
Yang, Jiang. “Shikumen Pledged Extra Protection After Readers Offer City Suggestions,” Shanghai Daily
Newspaper (August 25, 2014): A4 Metro [written with comments based on an interview with me].
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis by Li
Zhang.” Student Anthropologist 3, no. 1 (2012): 101-04.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “The Pros and Cons of Graduate School: A Very Personal Look at Some of the
Criteria and Some of the Decisions,” SESA (Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers) Magazine, no. 1
(2011): 1-3.
Alexander, Lindsey & Non Arkaraprasertkul, “A Report on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values by James
C. Scott: ‘Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals and…Us’,” Manhindra Humanities Center of Harvard
University (2011)
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N.
Wasserstrom.” China Review 11, no. 1 (2011): 147-150.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: Third World Modernism: Architecture, Development and Identity, edited by
Duanfang Lu.” Urban Studies 16, no.49 (2012): 3705-07.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: City between Worlds: My Hong Kong by Leo Ou-Fan Lee.” Urban Studies
47, no. 14 (2010): 3161-63.
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Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: Global Shanghai 1850-2010: History in Fragments by Jeffrey N.
Wasserstrom.” The China Report 46, no. 2 (2010): 175 – 181.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “Review Article: Incarceration and the Incarcerated: Power and Resistance by Saipin
Suputtamongkol.” New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship. Harvard-Yenching Institute (2009) [available online:
http://hyi.scribo.harvard.edu/category/new-frontiers-in-asian-scholarship/].
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Peerapong Techatutanon, Guttapon Prommoon, Supawai Wongkovit, and Stephanie
Hsu, eds. Jan Wampler’s Sukhothai Housing Studio. Cambridge, MA: Department of Architecture, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 2009.
Non Arkaraprasertkul. “The Critical Appearance of Modern Architecture in Thailand: Building Nine at
Panabhandhu School in Bangkok,” in the exhibition catalog KEEPING UP – Modern Thai Architecture 19671987, Thailand Creative & Design Center, Bangkok (TCDC; 2008)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
E EM
Global Postdoctoral Fellow (GPF), New York University Shanghai
Adjunct Professor, The Alliance for Global Education, Shanghai
Adjunct Professor, Ecole supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA)
School of Management Shanghai
Research Assistant, Professor Matthew Gutmann, Brown University
Teaching & Research Assistant, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) &
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSH), University of Macau
Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Head of Tubma Urban Design Project, East Water Group, Bangkok, Thailand
Teaching Fellow in South Asian Studies, Anthropology, and General Education,
Harvard University
Distinguished Gibbons Professor of Architecture, University of South Florida (USF)
Residential Advisor, Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Office of Fraternities, Sororities, and
Independent Living Groups (FSILGs), MIT
Adjunct Professor in Modern China, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Fellow in South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Graduate Training Representative, The Oriental Institute, The University of
Oxford
Principal Researcher & Chief Urban Planner, Thammasat University Research
& Consultancy Institute, Bangkok
Visiting Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, MIT
Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Design, Chulalongkorn University
Teaching Assistant, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University
Teaching Assistant Architecture Department, MIT
Research Assistant, Architecture Department, MIT
Teaching Assistant, Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS), MIT
University Lecturer in Architecture, Thammasat University, Bangkok
Departmental Lecturer in Built Environment, Shinawatra University, Bangkok
2014 – Present
2014 – Present
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2013 – Present
2012 – Present
2012 – 2013
2012 – 2013
2012 – 2013
2012 – 2013
2011 – 2012
2011 – 2012
2008 – 2010
2008 – 2009
2007 – 2008
2007 – 2008
2007
2005 – 2007
2005 – 2006
2005 – 2006
2004 – 2007
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(＊Indicating service as the lead instructor)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI
＊Shanghai: Urban Planning and Development of the Twenty-First Century
＊Global Connection: Shanghai
Global Perspectives on Society Part I & Part II
ECOLE SUPÉRIEURE DES SCIENCES COMMERCIALES
D'ANGERS (ESSCA) SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SHANGHAI
Doing Business in China: Commercial Environment and Legal System
(Cultural foundation, Chinese business culture & Innovation Modules)
THE ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION
(STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM IN SHANGHAI,
“TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CITY”)
＊URBN390: Urban Planning
＊ARCH392 Architecture and Design
Summer 2015
Spring 2015
Fall 2014/Spring 2015
Fall 2014/Spring 2015
Spring/Summer 2015
Spring/Summer 2015
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES (IIAS)
International Summer School: Reading Craft: Itineraries of Culture,
Knowledge and Power in the Global Ecumene
International Winter School: Urban Hybridity in the Post-Colonial Age
FUDAN UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI
Doing Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century: Fudan Intensive Summer
Teaching: FIST Program (暑期集中式授课)
Summer 2014
Winter 2013
Summer 2014
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, TAMPA
＊Architecture 5366: Advanced Design C
Spring 2013
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
＊EAS99: East Asian Studies Senior Thesis
Society of the World 33: Tokyo
Anthropology 1610: Ethnographic Research Methods
＊Introductory Thai II – Thai 101b
＊Intermediate Thai II – Thai 102b
＊Introductory Thai I – Thai 101a
＊Intermediate Thai I – Thai 102a
Readings in Thai I – Thai 103ar
Anthropology 1756: The Horror of Anthropology
＊Introductory Thai II – Thai 101b
＊Intermediate Thai II – Thai 102b
＊Readings in Thai II – Thai 103br
＊South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 100r.
Spring/Fall 2014
Spring 2013
Spring 2013
Spring 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Fall 2012
Fall 2012
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Spring 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2011
LESLEY UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA
＊CHIST 4055: History of Modern China
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
＊4.291/4.237G: Urban Growth, Economics, and Planning
(Offered in conjunction with the Faculty of Commerce
and Accountancy, Economics, Chulalongkorn University)
＊4.291/11.4190U & 4.237G: Double Population, Triple Area: All in 30 Years:
Third World Urban Challenges Exploding the Future
4.166: Beijing Urban Design Studio
＊4.144/4.156: Homing and Community: Housing for the Ancient
City of Sukhothai
4.144/4.156: Housing Studio in Beijing
4.237H: Designing Lift House in Louisiana
4.156: Advanced Architectural Design Studio Level III
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND
GLOBAL STUDIES, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (ASU)
SGS 484: Urban Sustainability and Planning in Thailand
VISITING POSITIONS
Asia Center Affiliate, Harvard Shanghai Center, Shanghai, China
Visiting Researcher, Urban History Research Group,
East China Normal University, Shanghai
Visiting Researcher, Anthropology Research and Teaching Unit,
School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University
Visiting Lecturer, The Bachelor of Business Administration Program (BBA)
Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University
Visiting Urban Design Critic, Graduate Master of Urban
Design Program (MUD),Hong Kong University
Summer 2009
Summer 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Summer 2007
2013 – Present
2012 – 2014
2009 – 2010
Summer 2009
Summer 2008
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Locating Shanghai: Urbanization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space,” China
Policy Lab Seminar, Center of Italian Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (January 2015).
“Shanghai Urban Future: Urbanization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space” In
Urban Futures: Planning, Politics, and Renewal Panel [**awarded the Best Student Panel Award by the
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology], In 113th American Anthropological
Association (AAA) Annual Meeting: Boarders and Crossings, Chicago (December 2014).
“Shanghai “Global” City: Urbanization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space,” In
Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City: An International Symposium, Center for Metropolitan Studies (in
collaboration with DFG, German Research Foundation), Brandenburg University of Technology, CottbusSenftenberg (November 2014).
“Fundamental Issues of Urbanization in China: Prospects, Challenges, and its Discontents” In
Developmental Challenges for China and India: Economic Development, Human Development, and
Urbanization, In NYU Shanghai and Shanghai Jiao Tong University of the People’s Republic of China for the International
Conferences on ‘Development, Governance, and Law in China and India,’ O. P. Jindal Global University, New Delhi
(November 2014).
“Shanghai Alleyway Houses: A Case Study in Methods and Challenges in Urban Anthropology,” A Guest
Lecture for the Nanjing University Anthropology Program Graduate Seminar, Department of Sociology, Nanjing
University, P. R. China (November 2014).
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“Shanghai Architecture & Urbanism: Past, Present, and Future,” A Special Lecture for Class SGlobal Connections:
Shanghai (CA-UA 9634, Professor Lena Scheen), New York University Shanghai (October 2014).
“What’s Anthropology? And Why Should We All Learn It,” A Special Lecture for Chongqing Association of Overseas
Student Returnees (重庆海归大讲堂), Chongqing, P.R. China (October 2014).
“Shanghai, What Everyone Needs to Know?: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of
Urban Space,” A Special Lecturer for Undergraduate Students at Chongqing Technology and Business University,
Chongqing, P.R. China (October 2014).
“Locating Shanghai: Shanghai’s Past, Present, and Future through the Lens of Urban Anthropology,” Special
Lecture for Trinity College’s Summer Sustainable Urban Development Summer Program in China, Shanghai (June 2014).
“Classifying Bodies: Rural/Urban Division, low/high quality population: Issues in Contemporary Chinese
Society and Culture,” Special Guest Lecture for the “Shanghai: The Twenty-First Century City” Study Abroad Program,
The Alliance for Global Education, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (March, July &
September 2014).
“The Emergence of the Re-Emergence Urbanism: Shanghai Urban Housing in the Twenty-First Century,”
Special Lecture in the Master-to-Master Educational Program, 2014 Architect @ Work (A@W: industry event for
professionals working in architecture, design, and real estate-related industries), Shanghai Expo Center (June
2014).
“Traditionalism as a Way of Life: The Sense of Home in a Shanghai Alleyway,” The 5th Shanghai Social Studies
Colloquium (SSSC), ESSCA School of Management, Shanghai (June 2014).
“Shanghai’s Urbanization Pattern: From the Urban Planning and Public-Policy Perspectives,” Special Lecture
for Graduate Students from Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan (Course’s name: PUBLIC
POLICY 716 Introduction to Chinese Policy; Professor Phillip B. K. Potter), Shanghai, May 2014).
“Shanghai Old Towns/ Shanghai New Towns: An Afternoon in a Nongtang,” with Professor Harry den
Hartog (Tongji University College of Architecture and Planning), MIT Club of Shanghai Special Lecture (April
2014).
“Housing and Heritage: Political Economy and Urban Space in Shanghai Lilong Neighborhood,” The Royal
Asiatic Society (RAS) of Shanghai Lecture Series, RAS Library, Sino-British College, The University of Shanghai
for Science and Technology (April 2014).
“The American Architect Henry Murphy (1877 – 1954) and the Development of Chinese Architecture,”
Special Lecture at the American Cultural Center (Dr. Jennifer Tarlin, convener), The University of Shanghai for
Science and Technology (April 2014).
“Ethnography from the Field in Shanghai,” Special Lecture for SCA-UA 180 (8656): Ethnography of Black New
York, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University (March 2014).
“Traditionalism as a Way of Life: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban
Space,” 2014 Current Asian Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong (January 2014).
“Locating Shanghai,” Special Lecture for a class Architecture 590: Cultural Construction of Asian Cities (Dr. Robert
Cowherd, convener), College of Architecture, Design & Construction Management, Wentworth Institute of
Technology (November 2013).
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“Locating Moral Landscape of Contemporary China,” In 112th American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Annual Meeting: Boarders and Crossings, Chicago (November 2013).
“Design by Number: How Geographic Information System (GIS) Transformed Shanghai,” In Center for
Geographical Analysis’ GIS Institute Symposium on Spatial Information, Spatial Analysis, and Spatial Thinking, Harvard
University (June 2013).
“Urban Housing and the Cultural Construction of Shanghai, 1842 to Present,” a special lecture prepared for a
class Architecture590 Cultural Construction of Asian Cities, College of Architecture, Design & Construction
Management, Wentworth Institute of Technology (June 2013).
“Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space” (poster
presentation in absentia), In Student Conference: Urban Metamorphoses: Landscapes of Power and Memory, Department
of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania (May 2013).
“Traditionalism as a Way of Life: Political Economy of Urban Space in Shanghai Lilong Neighborhood,” In
2013 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, L.A. (April 2013).
“Homing, Housing and Heritage: The ‘Sense of a Place’ and Socio-Political Conflicts over Urban Space in
Shanghai,” In Where is Home? Place, Belonging and Citizenship in the Asian Century, an international workshop
organized by the University of Amsterdam, the International Institute for Asian Studies, Hong Kong Baptist
University, and the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney (March 2013).
“Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space,” In 22nd
Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia University, New York (February 2013).
“Historic Preservation As Gentrification: The Politics of Urban (Re)Development in the Lilong
Neighborhoods in Shanghai,” In 111th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting: Boarders and
Crossings, San Francisco (November 2012).
“Locating Shanghai: Processes, Effects of Globalization, and Historical Global Forms in the Changing Urban
Landscape of Modernity,” In World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impact, International Conference at Leiden
University, The Netherlands (August – September 2012).
“Visualizing Romance of Shanghai Neighbourhood: The Precursory Experience and How Do We Know
What We Thought We Knew?” Visualizing Asia in the Modern World: A Conference on Image-Driven Scholarship,
Princeton University & Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (May 2012).
“Performing Globality: Nostalgia and the Creation of ‘Global’ Shanghai,” East Asia in Performance: Graduate
Student Conference in East Asian Studies, University of Chicago (April 2012).
With Jacob Dreyer, “Shanghai in ruins: Space, Memory, and Heritage,” Rethinking Inheritance: The New School
Graduate Conference, The New School for Social Research (April 2012).
“Placing Shanghai: Ethnography of Space and Sensory Production of East Asian Urbanism,” Placing East
Asia, Conference on Urbanism and the Production of Space, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California,
Berkeley (March 2012).
“Spatial Change and Housing in Shanghai: An Ethnography of the New Urban Middle-Class and an ‘Old’
Post-Colonial City,” 110th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting: Traces, Tidemarks and
Legacies, Montreal, QC, Canada (November 2011).
“Shanghai Urban Housing: A Planning Heritage or/and Nostalgic Obstacle?” The 11th International
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Congress: Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA), Tokyo (September 2011).
“Shanghai Urban Housing: An Ethnography of Material, Experience of Urban Social Life, and Historic
Preservation,” The Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) 2011 Conference, Material Asia: Objects, Technologies
and Rethinking Success, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea (August 2011).
“Shanghai Urban Housing: An interdisciplinary approach for understanding an East Asian city,” International
Workshop: East Asian Cities and Globalization: The Past in the Present, ESRC Global City and Culture Center,
University of Warwick (July 2011).
“Housing, Heritage, and Community Experience: An Ethnography of Chinese Urbanization,” 2011 China
Postgraduate Network Annual Conference, London School of Economics (June - July 2011).
“Housing as Transnational Heritage: Conflicts over Urban Space in Contemporary Shanghai,” PhD
Conference, Summer Program Heritage Conserved and Contested: Asian and European Perspectives, IIAS, Leiden, The
Netherlands (June 2011).
“Housing, Heritage, and Family Change: Ethnography of Urbanization in China,” The Transnational ‘50s: New
Perspectives on the Early PRC and the Outside World, Columbia University, Weatherhead East Asian Institute,
Columbia University’s Confucius Institute and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (May
2011).
“Innovation in Academia: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice though Interdisciplinary
approach,” Invited presentation in the Innovation Panel, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: How to be an Asian Leader in
the Corporate World, MIT and Cornell Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers Symposium, MIT (April 2011).
“Oxford Street,” Sound Exhibition (runtime: 5:03 minutes), VES Screenings 2011, Carpenter Center for Visual
Arts, Department of the Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (April 2011).
“China’s Housing Policies and Practices: A Case Study of Shanghai Urban Housing,” Invited presentation for
course Housing and Heritage: Conflicts over Urban Space (FAS Course Code: Anthropology 1742), Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University (April 2011).
“Housing and Heritage: Conflicts over Urban Space in Contemporary Shanghai,” 2011 Current Asian
Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(January 2011).
“Leaping Beyond Nostalgia: Shanghai’s Urban Life Ethnography,” The Second Annual DSD-IIAS Workshop:
The Postcolonial Global City in Asia, co-organized by the School of Design (DSD) at Delft University of
Technology and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Delft and Leiden, The Netherlands (May
2010).
“Working Paper: Dynamic Soi and the Neighborhoods and Urban Life in Bangkok, Thailand” 2010 Conference
of the Project of Empowering Network for International Thai Studies (ENIT), Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand (March 2010).
With Reinhard Goethert et.al, “Is an Incremental Core Housing Strategy the Way to Re-Establish
Communities in Haiti?” A Round Table Discussion/Debate Hosted by the Global University Consortium Exploring
Incremental Housing & the Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements (MIT), United Nations Habitat Program
(UNHabitat) World Urban Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (March 2010).
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“Urban Design in USA/ Places and Cities – USA” Special Lecture for Course K1DPAC Places and Cities: Year
09/10, Core Lecture/Seminar, Master of Architecture/Urban Design Graduate Students, The Institute of
Architecture, Department of Built Environment, The University of Nottingham, UK (March 2010).
“Presence of Community: Micro-Urbanism Perception of Shanghai,” a paper presented at an organized Panel
Shanghai despite herself: Conflicting Perceptions of the City across Time of the Chinese Historians in the United States
(CHUS), 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia (March 2010).
“Shanghai's Lilong: Resilient Community in the Context of China's Social and Economic Reform,” Mobility
and Territory: Research Workshop on Asian Neighborhoods, Harvard University’s Department of Anthropology and
the Harvard-Yenching Institute (April 2009).
With Jan Wampler, “Community-Oriented Urban Housing Design for Beijing: Strategies for LMRHD and
Urban Design” Conference Proceeding of the Seventh China Urban Housing Conference. Chongqing, China: Center of
Housing Innovations at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (September 2008).
“Shanghai Urbanism: The Politics of Built Form” (a panel with Dr. Johannes Widodo and Dr-Ing Reinhard
Goethert), Faculty of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore (June 2008).
“Shanghai Urbanism,” Department of Architecture, Chu Hai College for Higher Education,
Hong Kong (April 2008).
“Politicization and Urban Iconography: Four Perspectives on Shanghai Pudong” Urban and Regional Planning
Annual Meeting: Urban Renewal. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, (2007).
“Shanghai’s Skylines: Politicized Images of the City,” 106th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual
Meeting: Difference, (In)Equality & Justice. Arlington, Virginia (2007).
With Reilly Rabitaille, “Contemporary Lilong: Revitalizing Shanghai’s Ingenious Housing,” The Fourth
International Conference of Planning and Design in Tainan, R.O.C. College of Planning and Design, National Cheng
Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (April 2007).
“Toward Shanghai’s Urban Housing: Re-Defining Shanghai’s Lilong” The Sixth China Urban Housing Conference
in Beijing, P.R. China, Center of Housing Innovations at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ministry of
Construction, P.R. China (March 2007).
NON-DEGREE PROGRAMS/COURSES
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
Summer School on Reading Craft in the Global Ecumene
Göttingen University
Summer School on Cityscapes and New Religiosities in Asia
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Yearlong Advanced Chinese Language/Sociology Program
University of Macau, China Special Economic Zone
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
Winter School on Urban Hybridity in the Post-Colonial Age
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning
International Design Summer School
Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing University, China
The Fourth International Summer School for China Studies,
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Summer 2014
2013 – 2014
Winter 2013
Summer 2013
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co-organized by Nanjing University & University of Sydney
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
“Studies of Asian Arts, Religion, and History” Summer Workshop,
co-organized by National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies,
Fudan University, East Asian Studies Department and Program,
Princeton University & Institute for the Advanced Study of Asia,
Tokyo University
East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China
Urban Studies Training Program, co-organized by the HarvardYenching Institute, the Institute for Humanities and Social
Sciences at Hong Kong University, and the ECNU Shanghai
History Research Center
Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University
Summer Geographic Information System (GIS) Institute
The School of Liberal Arts and the Graduate Institute of
Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taipei
International Roundtable on Constructive Contestation around
Urban Heritage in Taipei: a New Approach for Asian Cities
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Summer Program on World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts
Beijing Language and Culture University
Harvard-Beijing Academy Language Program,
Harvard Summer School
Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, P.R. China
Winter Institute in Performance Studies
Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China
Summer School in Advanced Chinese
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Summer Program: Heritage Conserved and Contested: Asian and
European Perspectives
The University of Turin, Italy
Summer School in Politics, International Relations and Political
Economy of Contemporary China (with Distinction)
The Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.
Summer School in Academic Chinese and Literary Theory
(completed with the Certificate of Distinction)
Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China
Oxford-Peking Universities Intensive Chinese Course
The Architectural Association (AA), London
The AA Visiting Teachers Program
Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
MIT-Tsinghua Collaborative Studio in Urban Design
The University of Santo Tomas (UST), Manila
MIT-UST International Collaborative Research and Workshop
The University of Pennsylvania
Fulbright Academic Preparation and Enrichment Program
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Summer 2013
Summer 2013
Fall 2012
Summer 2012
Summer 2012
Winter 2012
Summer 2011
Summer 2011
Summer 2010
Summer 2009
Summer 2009
Summer 2008
Summer 2006
Winter 2006
Summer 2005
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Urban anthropology; modern Chinese history and society; modern architecture and urban design; Asian cities
and cultural study in East Asia (focusing on ever-emerging Asian mega-cities); urbanism and housing; built
forms and their cultural construction; urban morphology & theories; history theory criticism of architecture;
visualizing cultures and sensory ethnography; sexuality and modern urbanism; anthropology of science,
knowledge, and expertise
SKILLS
Photography (operating full-scale SLR and DSLR cameras), Image editing/retouching and graphic design
(Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign), Geographical analysis (GIS), Webpage design (Microsoft
Frontpage), Basic Quantitative Analysis (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access), drafting and architectural
designing (Autodesk Autocad), Filmmaking and film editing (operating full-scale video/TV cameras and
sound recording devices, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro), Bibliographical data, research, and citation
management (Endnote), Computer skills (Mac &PC)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The American Institute of Architects (AIA)
The Special Interest Group of Urban Settlement (SIGUS), MIT
The Council of Thai Architects
Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage (ASA)
American Field Service Inter-Cultural and Educational Foundation
New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
The American Anthropological Association (AAA)
National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA)
Society for East Asian Anthropology (a section of the AAA)
Society for Medical Anthropology (a section of the AAA)
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (a section of the AAA)
Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA)
International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU)
Asian Neighborhoods Research Group, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
LANGUAGES
Thai (native); English (fluent/near-native); Mandarin Chinese (fluent)
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