Faculty/Staff Detail
Tiantian Zheng
Website: Tiantian Zheng website
Ph.D. Yale University
Recipient of two national book awards (2010 Sara Whaley Book Award and 2011 Research Publication Book Award) and one “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice on research about cultural politics of gender, social class, social inequalities, migration, and their role in the transmission of disease and identity formation of the disenfranchised and underprivileged population. Two-decade intense, longitudinal fieldwork in China has resulted in ten academic books, five edited journal issues, and over a hundred articles. She has testified before Congress, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC. Over 100 papers were delivered at national and international conferences, and over 100 invited talks by key national and international universities and organizations. Invited service on the reviewer panel for Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and Australia Research Council, and invited service on the Editorial Board for seven academic journals.
Selected Publications
Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia
Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China.
(Outstanding Academic Title by Choice in 2016, selected for its excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of its contribution to the field and value as important treatment of the subject.)
(Nominated for the Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Margaret Mead Award, Society of Humanistic Anthropology and American Sociological Association’s Book Award on Asia/Transnational) (Press: NBC News)
Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches
HIV/AIDS Through an Anthropological Lens. Second Edition
Sex-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
(Winner of the 2010 Sara A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for the book published in the previous calendar year judged to have made the most significant contribution to the topic of women and labor) (Press: NPR All Things Considered, Feminist Review, Elevate Difference, Intersections, Time Weekly, Global Times, Listed as one of the 30 Must-Read Books on China by Project Pengyou)
Nominated for American Sociological Association’s Sex and Gender Section Book Award and Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award
Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism
(Winner of the 2011 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States)
Nominated for the Eileen Basker Prize with the Society for Medical Anthropology
HIV/AIDS Through an Anthropological Lens. First Edition