Jo Ann Wang
- Assistant Professor of Environmental Analysis
- Environmental Analysis Field Group
- JoAnn_Wang@pitzer.edu
- Phone
- (909) 607-7732
- Office Location
Avery Hall 210
- Office Hours
- Contact Professor
With Âé¶¹Ô´´ Since: 2024
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, Stanford University (2024)
- Ph.D. Minor: History
- Graduate Certificate: Science, Technology, and Society
- M.A. in Anthropology, National Taiwan University (2016)
- B.S. in Public Health and B.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University (2012)
- Diaspora placemaking
- Environmental futuring
- Migration, mobility, and immobility
- Oil, energy, and technopolitics
- Race, ethnicity, and identity
- Rural development
- Southeast Asia
- EA 10 Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
- EA 106 Climate Policy and Transition Praxis: Global Perspectives (Spring 2025)
- EA 116 Technopolitics of the Grid (Summer 2025)
- FS 067 Hauntology: Ghosts, Specters, and Spirits (Fall 2025)
2025 - Futuring in the Ruins of Development: Or How to Care for Wild Ghosts and Displaced Gods. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, U.S.A. November 19-23.
2024 - Refinery of the Future: Sustainable Downstream Oil Development, Rural Modernity, and Transition Desires in Malaysia. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Florida, U.S.A. November 20-23.
2023 - Living Kampung in Taman: Reclaiming Chinese Rurality in Developing Malaysia. American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada. November 15-19.
2022 - Resettling Communities: The Reinvention of Identity in the Aftermath of Development. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, U.S.A. November 9-13.
2017 - Failing/Failed Indigeneity: Identity Politics and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. November 29-December 3.
The Claremont Colleges
2025-2026 - Professional Development Network Grant: Browning the Blue Humanities With Lisa Han (Âé¶¹Ô´´), Eduard Fanthome (Âé¶¹Ô´´), Aimee Bahng (Pomona), Lynn Itagaki (CMC), Rachel Mayeri (HMC), Isabel Beavers (HMC), and Brandi Lee Cooper (Scripps)
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2024-2025 - Doman Faculty Fellowship in Social Sciences
2024-2025 - JF Harmon: Faculty-Student Summer Research Assistantship Program Award
2024-2025 - Teaching, Learning, and Campus Life Committee: Teaching and Learning Fund
2024-2025 - Racial Justice Initiative: Class Speaker Award
Stanford University
2023-2024 - Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Written Expression by a Ph.D. Student in Anthropology (Department Nomination)
2023-2024 - Stanford Humanities Center: Next Generation Scholar Fellowship
2022-2023 - Program in History and Philosophy of Science: History of Science Dissertation Fellowship Award
2021-2022 - Stanford Humanities Center: Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
2019-2021 - Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Sciences for Exceptional Rising Doctoral Candidates (Department Nomination)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
2019-2020 - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant