Professor
Departments of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
About
Specialization:
Mayfair Yang is a cultural anthropologist interested in the intertwined processes of religiosity, secularization, and state operations in Chinese modernity. Areas of research and teaching: Chinese religions & secularization; critical theory; environmental humanities, China Studies, sovereignty and state power; gender and feminism; media studies; cultural approaches to political economy. Her new area of research is religious environmentalism or religion, ecology, and environmental ethics and ontologies.