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Professor of Anthropology
tracy2me@jmu.edu
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Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Syracuse University
B.A., Middlebury College

Teaching

Cultural Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of East Asia, Biopower and Technoscience, The Contemporary Silk Road, Gender and Society

Research

Standardization and Accountability; Corporations and Culture; Sustainable Agriculture; China; Citizenship, Nationalism and Ethnic Minorities; Post-Socialism and Neoliberalism; China’s Dairy Industry; E-Waste

Publications

2021    Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation, Special Issue “Cultures of Fermentation,” Current Anthropology 62(S24):S276-S286. doi.org/10.1086/714345

2020    Heritage Hands and Tastes of the Pandemic. International Journal of Cultural Property. 27(4): 481–488. doi:10.1017/S0940739121000011.

2018    (Re)making Quality in China's Dairy Industry. Asian Anthropology. 17(4):237-253.

2018    Tracy, Megan and Rebecca Howes-Mischel. Gender, Microbial Relations, and the Fermentation of Food. Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures/Cuizine: Revue des cultures culinaires au Canada. 9(1).

2016    Mulitmodality, Transparency and Food Safety in China. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 39(S1):34-53.

2014    Zhong, Zhen, Shufen Chen, Xiangzhi Kong, and Megan Tracy. Why Improving Agrifood Quality is Difficult in China: Evidence from the Dairy Industry. China Economic Review 31:74-83.

2013   "Pasteurizing China's Grasslands and Producing Terroir." American Anthropologist 115(3): 437-451

2010   “The Mutability of Melamine: A Transductive Account of a Scandal” Anthropology Today. 26(6):4-8.

 

Grants
2009—National Science Foundation, Small Grant for Exploratory Research to support preliminary research on China’s 2008 melamine scandal.

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