Jenny Chio CURRENT POSITION Postdoctoral Research Fellow
China Research Centre University of Technology, Sydney
EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology, 2009 Landscape of Travel: Tourism, Media and Identity in Southwest China Dissertation Committee: Nelson Graburn (Chair), Liu Xin, William Schaefer Affiliated Researcher at Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 2005-2007 M.A. Goldsmiths College, University of London, Visual Anthropology, 2003 Degree awarded with Distinction Film the People: National minorities in ethnographic films in the People’s Republic of China, 1957-1966 (digital video) Film the People is distributed by the Institute for Knowledge and Media, Germany B.A. Brown University, Anthropology, magna cum laude, 2000 Honors thesis: Now Exhibiting: Self-Representation and Community Identity in Native American Museums Visiting Student at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, 1998-1999 EXTRAMURAL FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2006-2007 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2006-2007 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2002 IIE-Fulbright Teaching Fellowship (Germany), 2000-2001 INTRAMURAL FELLOWSHIPS University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dissemination Scheme Grant (support for professional training in digital video editing and post-production of Nong Jia Le), 2009 UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Program, Graduate Opportunity Program Multi-Year Fellowship, 2002-2004, 2007-2009 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, Liu Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008 UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2005-2006 UC Berkeley Institute for East Asian Studies, Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, Summer Research Grant, 2004 PUBLICATIONS Chapter in an edited volume: 2008 “The Internal Expansion of China: Tourism and the Production of Distance.” In Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism, by T. Winter, et al. eds. London: Routledge, 207-220. Book reviews: 2008 Review of Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition: A Place Called Shangrila, by A. Kolas. H-Travel, H-Net Reviews. December. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=15718 2008 Review of “Going First Class?: New Approaches to Privileged Movement and Travel” by V. Amit, ed. Social Anthropology 16:2, 99-100. 2006 Review of “Contemporary Art and Anthropology” by C. Wright and A. Schneider, eds. Visual Anthropology Review 22:2, 94-95. 2006 Review of “Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace” by N. Pun. Social Anthropology 14:2, 289-290. 2006 with Nelson Graburn. Review of “Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography” by S. Pink, L. Kurti and A. Afonso, eds. Social Anthropology 14:1, 148-149. JURIED SCREENINGS OF FILM THE PEOPLE 9th RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Student Competition, Oxford, UK, 2005 Göttingen International Film Festival, Student Competition, Institute for Knowledge and Media, Göttingen, Germany, 2004 HONORS AND AWARDS Finalist, American Anthropological Association 2008 Photo Contest Two images selected as finalists; one image selected as semi-finalist (link to images here) Flaherty Seminar Student Fellowship, International Film Seminars, 2008 Brown University Class of 1873 Prize in Anthropology, 2000 LEADERSHIP Elected Board Member, Society for Visual Anthropology, 2009-2012 News Editor/Officer, National Association of Student Anthropologists, 2007-2009 Commissioned and edited "Section News" column in Anthropology News, the monthly newsletter of the American Anthropological Association Co-Chair, Tourism Studies Working Group, 2007-2009 Coordinated bi-monthly colloquia on new research in tourism studies Secured and managed funds from various units on the UC Berkeley campus Coordinator and Founder, Visual Anthropology Working Group, 2004-2005 Organized 2004 Kroeber Anthropological Society Film Festival (with T. Rodriguez, UC Berkeley) TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2009 Department of Anthropology Instructor History and Theory of Ethnographic Film, Summer 2009 Reading and Composition Seminar: Visual Anthropology, Spring 2009 *Syllabi for these courses are available upon request Teaching Assistant Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Spring 2008 Reader Ethnographic Film History and Theory, Fall 2003 Program in Mass Communications Teaching Assistant Structure of Mass Communications, Spring 2005 Introduction to Mass Communications, Fall 2004 Brown University, 2000 Department of Anthropology Teaching Assistant Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Spring 2000 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Co-Organizer (with Dr. A. Bunten, Humboldt State University), Symposium on Indigenous Tourism, 2008 Panel Co-Organizer (with A. Fattal, Harvard University), 108th AAA Annual Meeting, 2008 Panel Organizer, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, 2008 Panel Organizer, 107th AAA Annual Meeting, 2007 Conference Planning Committee, “On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory”, 2005 SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS 2009 American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia: "Leave the fields without leaving the farm: Modernity and mobility in rural China" 2009 Provincial China Workshop, Anhui University, China: "'Village Videos' and the Visual Mainstreaming of Rural, Ethnic Identity" 2009 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago: “A Landscape of Travel: Ethnic Tourism and the Production of Distance in Rural China” 2008 International Conference on Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics, Hong Kong: “Migration, Tourism, and Social Change in Rural China” 2008 American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: “Picturing ‘Model Minorities’: Power, Photography and Economy in Chinese Ethnic Tourism;” also presented at the Society for Visual Anthropology Visual Research Conference, 2008 and Symposium on Indigenous Tourism, 2008 2008 Tourism Studies Working Group Colloquium, UC Berkeley: “The Practice of Photographing ‘Model Minorities’ in Chinese Tourism” 2008 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta: “ ‘You can go anywhere as a migrant, but as a tourist you need money’: Stories of Travel by Residents of Tourism Villages in China;” also presented at the 2007 Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago 2007 American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.: “Looking Good in Rural China: An Ethnography of the Visual in Chinese Tourism Villages” 2007 Society of Visual Anthropology Visual Research Conference, Washington D.C.: “Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research” 2007 Conference on Tourism and Heritage, Guangzhou, China: “ ‘New Socialist Countryside Peasant Family Happy’ (社会主义新农村农家乐): Understanding Domestic Tourism In/To Rural Southwest China” 2006 5th International Conference on Visual Anthropology, Guangzhou, China: “Video and Visual Anthropology: Making the Visual Work in Field Research” 2006 ‘Of Asian Origin’: Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia conference, Singapore: “Getting Bigger All the Time: The Internal Expansion of China” 2005 Workshop on Visual Anthropology—student perspectives on teaching and learning, Oxford, UK:“Rough Cuts? Frames and Documents of Miao Festival Videos” 2004 International Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawai'i Manoa, Honolulu: “Into the Heat of Battle: Documents of Ethnography and Ethnicity in China 1957-1966” (co-authored with J. Alexander) 2004 4th International Conference on Visual Anthropology, Kunming, China: “Too Close to Home: Martin Parr and the Ambivalent Image”  Bullfight in Kaili, Guizhou province. October 2006 |
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