Areas of Interest: Meanings of life, culture and identity, low-end globalization, asylum seekers, life after death

Areas of Interest: Visual anthropology, anthropology of tourism, cultural heritage, food and identity, ethnicity and cultural nationalism, Ainu-Japanese relations

Areas of Interest: Urbanization, ritual industries, education, gift giving, gender and kinship, social relations, and truth

Areas of Interest: Sex work, human trafficking, refugees, women’s activism, and policy-making, HIV/AIDS campaigns and policies, The Vagina Monologues and transnational feminism, the politics of representation in anti-trafficking discourses, pedagogical issues in women's and gender studies and Asian studies

Areas of Interest: Cultural identity and social transformation, family and marriage, cross-border mobility and social marginalization, gender and ethnic relations

Areas of Interest: Medical and psychiatric anthropology, anthropology of China, mental health, psychotherapy (especially psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis)

Areas of Interest: Anthropology of China, childhood studies, psychological anthropology, medical anthropology

Areas of Interest: Archaeology, metallurgy, zooarchaeology, GIS in archaeology, development of metal technology in China, history of material culture and art in ancient China, craft production, gender archaeology, commodities and economic anthropology

Areas of Interest: Economic and Legal Anthropology; Anthropology of Science and Technology; Globalization and Inequality; Creativity, Copying, and the Knowledge Economy; Patents, Copyright, Property, and Piracy; Infrastructures of Commodity Circulation; Green Capitalism and the Environment; Media and Technology; Cyberspace and New Digital Worlds; Materiality and Thing Theory; Peircean Semiotics; Anthropological Theory and Qualitative Methods; China; Hong Kong; and Taiwan.

Areas of Interest: Archaeology, China-Southeast Asian cultural interaction in pre-modern period, trade ceramic studies, technology of craft production, museology

Areas of Interest:Anthropology of China, urban studies, social differences,
globalization and labor migration, gender, class, consumption and mass media