Social and Cultural Anthropology (1996-2003), professor (since 2000-2009)
 
Fieldwork
 
2003    Fieldwork with Uyghur peasants in Wupu township, Hami, Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region, China (January-February)
2000    Organizer and researcher of INS CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
funded project The Construction of Ethnicity and Gender and conducted; fieldwork in Tonghai County of Yunnan (May-Jane); Word Bank adviser for PRA Work on China's Livestock Breed Improvement Project
1997-99      Researcher on Ford Foundation funded project, The Construction of the Nanning-Kunming Rails and the Social and Cultural Change along the Line; conducted a total of 6 months of fieldwork in the Geyan Village in Tianlin County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
1994          Fieldwork with Ewenki reindeer herders in Oluguya Ewenki Autonmous Township of Inner Mongolia in June and July; fieldwork in Taicang, Jiangsu province, China
1984          Surveying Mongol-Han intermarriage, October
Fieldwork with Yi communities in Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan Province, July 1984


Courses Taught at Carleton College

Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropology of China
Anthropology of Japan
Anthropology of East Asia (to be taught in Spring Term 2008)
Ethnicity and Race
Language and Culture
Growing-up Cross-Culturally (team-teaching)


Areas of Interest

Linguistic Anthropology; Ethnicity and Race; Culture Change; Minority Education; Inner Asia; East Asia
 
Publications in English
     
1、 China’s Minority on the Move 
Co-Editors with Robyn Iredale and Fei Guo, Armonk, New York & London, England, Sharpe, 2003.     
2、Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China 
Robyn Iredale, Naran Bilik, Wang Su, Fei Guo, Caroline Hoy，Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,  2001.     
3、Shamanistic Scopes in a Changing World 
Co-Editors with Mihály Hoppál and Jason Yu-xiao Long, Budapest – Guiyang: Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religion, 2015   
     
1. Mongols: Moral Authority, Nationality and Racial Metaphor 
Barry Sautman ed., Racial Identities in East Asia, Hong Kong: Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April ‘96   
2. Culture, the Environment and Development in Inner Mongolia 
Caronline Humphrey and David Sneath eds., Culture and Environment in Inner Asia: 2， Cambridge: White Horse Press, 1996.     
3. Emotion Gets Lost: an Ewenki Case 
Inner Asia, 1996, 1 (1)..     
4. Racial Metaphor as Politico cultural Construct in Inner Mongolia 
Inner Asia, 1997, 2 (1). .     
5. The Mongol-Han Relations in a New Configuration of Social Evolution 
Central Asian Survey, 1998, 17(1), 69-91.   
6. Language Education, Intellectuals, and Symbolic Representation: Being an Urban Mongolian in a New Configuration of Social Evolution 
Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Volume 4, Spring /  Summer 1998/9/11 (1 & 2): 47-67. 
     
7. The Nan-