Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

April 2016 ______

SUSAN GREENHALGH

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

308 Tozzer, 21 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

(617) 495-7826 (office), (949) 929-1001 (cell)

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EDUCATION

Columbia University--M.A. and Ph.D in Sociocultural Anthropology; Certificate of East Asian Institute

Wellesley College--B.A. in Psychology

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Anthropology of the State, Governance, and Public Policy; Critical Weight Studies; The Politics of Reproduction/Population/Life Itself; Gender Studies; Modernity and Globalization; Socialism and Post-Socialism; People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Selected interests in U.S. health and society

EMPLOYMENT

John King and Wilma Cannon Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University (2013- )

Visiting Scholar, Research Center on Public Health, Tsinghua University (Beijing) (Fall 2013)

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University (July 2011- )

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine (July 2001-June 2011 )

Faculty-in-Residence, University of California Washington, DC Program (2005-06)

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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine (July 1994-June 2001)

Visiting Instructor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (Spring 1993 and 1994)

Senior Associate, Research Division, Population Council (Jan. 1990-June 1994)

Associate, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (1987-89)

Staff Associate, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (Nov. 1984-86)

Berelson Fellow, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (1983-84)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley (1982-83)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Book and Article Awards

Just One Child, 2010 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the book that makes the greatest contribution to the understanding of post-1900 China

Just One Child, 2010 Rachel Carson Prize of the Society for the Social Study of Science for the best book in science studies with social or political relevance

Just One Child, Honorable Mention, 2010 Senior Book Prize of the American Ethnological Society (AES) for exemplary work that speaks to contemporary issues beyond the discipline and academy

Just One Child, Honorable Mention, 2009 Gregory Bateson Book Prize of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) for interdisciplinary, experimental, innovative work in the spirit of Bateson

“Missile Science, Population Science,” Honorable mention, Gordon White Prize for the most original article in contemporary Chinese studies, China Quarterly, 2005 (awarded 2006)

Professional Career Achievement Awards

2016 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 12 months starting July 2016

2016 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow of Harvard University for scholarly contributions, including the 2015 publication of Fat-talk Nation.

2011 Olivia Schlieffelin Nordberg Award for Excellence in Writing and Editing in the Population Sciences, awarded in New York City, November.

2002 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement of the Population Association of America, honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievement during the first 20 years post-Ph.D.

Fellowships and Grants

Harvard University Asia Center, Grant for Research on Obesity, Inc? Public and Private in the Making of China’s Obesity Epidemic (May 2015-December 2016).

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Grant for Conference on A Better Life Through Science and Biomedicine? Troubling an Enduring China Dream (held April 2016).

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Grant for Conference on A Better Life Through Science and Biomedicine? Troubling an Enduring China Dream (held April 2016).

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Post-PhD Research Grant for Project on Making Sexual Science and Policy in China (12 months, 2012-13, $17,845). Later declined.

National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Grant for Project on Making Sexual Science and Policy in China (12 months, 2011-15, $204K).

Center for Asian Studies, UCI, Chew-Liang Chinese Rural Development Research Program, Grant for Project on An “Army of Violent Bachelors?” Governing Masculinity in Rural China (2010). Later declined.

Center for Asian Studies, UCI, Grant for Research on Producing Poison? Tracing the Supply Chain of Contaminated Heparin (2008).

Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, UCI, Grant for Research on Gender Consequences of One-Child Policy (2005)

Center for Asian Studies, UCI, Grant for Research on Gender Consequences of One-Child Policy (2005)

Open Society Institute, Publishing Grants for Two Books on Chinese Population Policy (2004-05)

National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Program, Grant for Project on Population Science and the Making of China’s One-Child-per-Couple Policy (Summer 2002-Summer 2004)

Newkirk Center for Science and Society, Seed Grant (Spring 2002-Spring 2003)

Open Society Institute, Individual Project Fellowship (Fall 1998-Winter 1999)

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Distinguished Visitorship (Fall 1997)

Global Peace & Conflict Studies, UCI, Research Grant (1996-97)

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Supplementary Grant (1992-94)

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Grant for Research on Political Economy and Fertility in Rural China (1992-94)

Columbia University, East Asian Institute, Grant for Project on Chinese Entrepreneurship in Taiwan and Southeast Asia (1989-91)

Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute, Columbia University (1989-90)

National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, Grant for Research on Socialist Modernization and the Demographic Transition in Rural China (1987-89)

Pacific Cultural Foundation, Grant for Research on Family Change in Taiwan (1984)

Berelson Fellowship, Center for Policy Studies, Population Council (1983-84)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chinese Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley (1982-83)

Columbia President's Fellowship (1980-81, 1976-77)

American Association of University Women, Dissertation Fellowship (1979-80)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Grant-in-Aid (1979)

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant (1978-79)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) (1977-78)

Wellesley College Graduate Fellowship (1976-77)

National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (NDFL) (1975-76)

Columbia University Fellowship (1974-75)

College Honors

Wellesley Scholar (based on grade point average)

Graduation with High Honors (based on thesis)

Phi Beta Kappa, Wellesley

OTHER HONORS

2016 Keynote Speaker, University of Copenhagen Conference on Lifestyle and Kinds of Living: Opportunities, Conditions, and Biology, 18-19 May 2016.

2012 Annual Future of Social Science Lecture, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, 10 May 2012.

2008 Annual Reischauer Lecture Series, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 16-18 April 2008.

Speaker, Launch Conference for the newly formed British Inter-university China Centre (BICC), London and Oxford, UK, 27 June 2007.

Opening-night speaker, Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality: Population Politics and Human Rights, Berlin, Germany, 15-19 February 2007.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat. Cornell University Press, 2015.

Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures 2008. Harvard University Press, 2010.

Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. University of California Press, 2008, 403 pp. Chinese translation now being negotiated.

Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. S. Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler. Stanford University Press, 2005.

Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. University of California Press, 2001.

Chinese State Birth Planning in the 1990s and Beyond (S. Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, for Resource Information Center, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 2001.

Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler and S. Greenhalgh, editors. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1988, 320 pp. Chinese translation published by Lujiang Press, Xiamen, 1992. Taiwan edition published by Jen-chien Publishing Co., Taipei, 1994.

English-Chinese and Chinese-English Glossary of Demography, coedited with Ye Xiushu and Zhao Shili. Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 1989.

Journal articles and book chapters

Neoliberal Science, Chinese-Style: Making and Managing the “Obesity Epidemic,” forthcoming (2016) in Social Studies of Science.

Disordered Eating/Eating Disorder: Hidden Perils of the Nation’s Fight Against Fat, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, available online from October 2015.

“Bare Sticks” and Other Dangers to the Social Body: Assembling Fatherhood in China. In Globalized Fatherhood, Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and Jose-Alberto Navarro (eds.), Berghahn, 2014, pp. 359-381.

Bad Biocitizens? Latinos and the US “Obesity Epidemic,” with Megan A. Carney, Human Organization 73(3), Fall 2014, pp. 267-276.

Patriarchal Demographics? China’s Sex Ratio Reconsidered, Population and Development Review 38 Supplement, 2012, pp. 130-149.

Reprinted in The Population of China in the 21st Century, Dudley L. Poston and Gu Baochang, eds. New York: Springer, 2015.

Weighty Subjects: The Biopolitics of the U.S. War on Fat, American Ethnologist 39(3), August 2012, pp. 471-487.

Condensed and reprinted in The Gender, Culture and Power Reader, Dorothy Hodgson, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

On the Crafting of Population Thought, Population and Development Review 38(1), March 2012, pp. 121-131.

Governing Chinese Life: From Sovereignty to Biopolitical Governance. In Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life, Everett Yuehong Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Weiming Tu, eds. New York: Routledge, 2010, pp. 146-162.

China’s Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-Child Norm, and Masculinization of Child Sex Ratios. In Reproductive Health in a Neoliberalizing World, Mohan Rao and Sarah Sexton, eds. New Delhi: Sage, 2010, pp. 299-337.

The Chinese Biopolitical: Facing the Twenty-First Century, New Genetics and Society 28(3), September 2009, pp. 205-222.

Governing China’s Population: The State Planning of Unplanned Persons. In Between Life and Death: Governing Population in an Era of Human Rights, Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos, eds. Bern and Berlin: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 75-98.

Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China’s One-Child Policy, The China Quarterly 182, June 2005, pp. 253-276.

Reprinted in Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China, Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2013, pp. 305-331.

Labeling Woefulness: The Social Construction of Fibromyalgia, with Nortin M. Hadler, Spine: An International Journal for the Study of the Spine, January 2005, pp. 1-4.

Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China. Reprinted in People’s Republic of China, Vol. 1: Natural Resources, Population and Social Life, Frank N. Pieke, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publ., 2002, pp. 121-148.

Anthropological Engagements with China’s One-Child Policy: Controversies, Contradictions, Productivities. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice 11(1), 2004, 27-34.

Globalization and Population Governance in China. In Global Assemblages: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics, Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 354-372.

Making Up China's "Black Population." In Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography, Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 148-172.

Short Comments, in New Reflections on the Anthropological Studies of (Greater) China, Liu Xin, ed. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2004, pp. 16-19.

Science, Modernity, and the Making of China’s One-Child Policy. Population and Development Review 29(2), June 2003, pp. 163-196.

Reprinted in The Population of China in the 21st Century, Dudley L. Poston and Gu Baochang, eds. New York: Springer, 2015.

Reprinted in Women in Asia, vol. 3, Health and Sexuality, Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, eds. London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 131-165.

Planned Births, Unplanned Persons: "Population" in the Making of Chinese Modernity. American Ethnologist 30(2), May 2003, pp. 196-215.

Women’s Rights and Birth Planning in China: New Spaces of Political Action, New Opportunities for American Engagement. In Women’s Rights and China’s New Family Planning Law: Roundtable before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, 23 September 2002. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 11-14, 53-56. Also at

Fresh Winds in Beijing: Chinese Feminists Speak Out on the One-Child Policy and Women's Lives. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26(3), Spring 2001, pp. 847-886.

Toward a Reflexive Population Studies for the Twenty-first Century (Por uma abordagem reflexiva para estudos de populacao para no Seculo XXI). In The Demography of Social Exclusion (Demografia da Exclusao Social), Maria Coleta de Oliveira, ed. Sao Paulo: Editora da Unicamp (University of Campinas Press), 2001, pp. 25-46.

Fertility: Political and Political-Economic Perspectives. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. Oxford: Elsevier, 2001, Vol. 8, pp. 5547-5554.

Managing "The Missing Girls" in Chinese Population Discourse. In Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health, Carla Maklouf Obermeyer, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 131-152.

Methods and Meanings: Reflections on Disciplinary Difference. Population and Development Review 23(4), December 1997, pp. 819-825.

The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political History of 20th Century Demography. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(1), January 1996, pp. 26-66.

Anthropology Theorizes Reproduction: Integrating Practice, Political Economic, and Feminist Perspectives. In Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry, Susan Greenhalgh, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 3-28.

Afterword: (Re)capturing Reproduction for Anthropology. In Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry, Susan Greenhalgh, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 259-263.

Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction (with Jiali Li). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 20(3), Spring 1995, pp. 601-641.

Reprinted in Gender and Scientific Authority, Barbara Laslett, Sally Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, and Evelynn Hammonds, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 391-431.

De-Orientalizing the Chinese Family Firm. American Ethnologist, 21(4), November 1994, pp. 742-771.

Restraining Population Growth in Three Chinese Villages (with Zhu Chuzhu and Li Nan). Population and Development Review, 20(2), June 1994, pp. 365-395.

Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China. American Ethnologist, 21(1), February 1994, pp. 1-30.

The Peasant Household in the Transition from Socialism: State Intervention and its Consequences in China. In The Economic Anthropology of the State, Elizabeth Brumfiel, ed. Lanham: University Press of America, 1994, pp. 43-94.

The Peasantization of Population Policy in Shaanxi. In Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era, Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, pp. 219-250.

State-Society Links: The Politics of Population Policies and Programmes, with special reference to China. In Family Planning Programmes and Fertility, James F. Phillips and John A. Ross, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 276-298.

Population Studies in China: Privileged Past, Anxious Future. Reprinted in The Population of Modern China, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey, eds. New York: Plenum, 1992, pp. 19-46.

Nüxing Renkou Fenxi de Guoji Bijiao (Chinese Women in Comparative Perspective). In Zhongguo Nüxing Renkou (Chinese Women), Zhu Chuzhu and Jiang Zhenghua, eds. Zhengzhou: Henan People's Press, 1991, pp. 314-338.

Toward a Political Economy of Fertility: Anthropological Contributions. Population and Development Review, 16(1), March 1990, pp. 85-106.

Translated and published as Vers Une Economie Politique de la Fecondite: Contributions Anthropologique.” In Les Theories de la Fecondite, Henri Leridon (ed.). Paris: Editions de L’Ined, coll. Textes Fondamentaux, 2014.

Reprinted in The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development, Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, eds. London: Earthscan, 1998.

Socialism and Fertility in China. In World Population: Approaching the Year 2000, Special Issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Samuel Preston, ed., July 1990, pp. 73-86.

Population Studies in China: Privileged Past, Anxious Future. The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 24, July 1990, pp. 357-384.

Reprinted in The Population of Modern China, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey, eds. New York: Plenum, 1992, pp. 19-46.

The Evolution of the One-Child Policy in Shaanxi, 1979-88. The China Quarterly, 122, June 1990, pp. 191-229.

New Directions in Fertility Research: Anthropological Perspectives. In Proceedings of General Conference of IUSSP, New Delhi, 20-27 September 1989. Liege: IUSSP, vol. 3, pp. 437-449.

Nongcun Shengyü Xuqiu Fenxi (An Analysis of the Demand for Children in Rural China) (with Li Nan and Jiang Zhenghua). Chinese Population Science (Zhongguo Renkou Kexue), 6, 1989, pp. 16-20, 25.

Social Causes and Consequences of Taiwan's Postwar Economic Development. In Anthropological Studies of the Taiwan Area: Accomplishments and Prospects, Kwang-chih Chang, Kuang-chou Li, Arthur P. Wolf, and Alexander Chien-chung Yin, eds. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 1989, pp. 351-390.

Land Reform and Family Entrepreneurship in East Asia. In Population and Rural Development: Institutions and Policies, Geoffrey McNicoll and Mead Cain, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 77-118.

Chinese Family Policy: Negative Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa. In Population Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Drawing on International Experience. Liege: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1989, pp. 591-630.

Fertility as Mobility: Sinic Transitions. Population and Development Review, 14(4), December 1988, pp. 629-674.

Families and Networks in Taiwan's Economic Development. In Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan, Edwin A. Winckler and Susan Greenhalgh, eds. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1988, pp. 224-245.

Reprinted in China, Korea, and Taiwan, vol. II, The Political Economy of East Asia, John Ravenhill, ed. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar Publ., 1995.

Analytical Issues and Historical Episodes (with Edwin A. Winckler). In Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan, 1988, pp. 3-19.

Supranational Processes of Income Distribution. In Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan, 1988, pp. 67-100.

Intergenerational Contracts: Familial Roots of Sexual Stratification in Taiwan. In A Home Divided: Women and Income in the Third World, Daisy Dwyer and Judith Bruce, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988, pp. 39-70.

Fertility Policy in China: Future Options (with John Bongaarts). Science, 235, 6 March 1987, pp. 1167-1172.

Reprinted in The Population of Modern China, Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey, eds. New York: Plenum, 1992, pp. 401-419.

Shifts in China's Population Policy, 1984-1986: Views from the Central, Provincial and Local Levels. Population and Development Review, 12(3), September 1986, pp. 491-515.

An Alternative to the One-child Policy in China (with John Bongaarts). Population and Development Review, 11(4), December 1985, pp. 585-617.

Is Inequality Demographically Induced? The Family Cycle and the Distribution of Income in Taiwan. American Anthropologist, 87(3), September 1985, pp. 571-594.

Sexual Stratification: The Other Side of 'Growth with Equity' in East Asia. Population and Development Review, 11(2), June 1985, pp. 265-314.