Jo Ann Wang

  • Assistant Professor of Environmental Analysis
  • Environmental Analysis Field Group
Closeup of Jo Ann Wang, who has long straight black hair and weras a green collared shirt and a wide-brimmed white hat.
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Avery Hall 210

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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