Julie Y. Chu

(PhD, New York University, 2004) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College, is a socio-cultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state governmentality.   Her book, Cosmologies of Credit: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination (Duke University Press, forthcoming) is based on fieldwork in a transnational Chinese village with a history of emigration via human smuggling networks.  Her new project examines border technologies and shipping culture at the Port of Fuzhou in China.  In addition to her Ph.D. in Anthropology, Professor Chu also has a certificate of specialization in ethnographic film theory and documentary video production from NYU's Program in Culture and Media.

E-mail: juliechu@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Publications:

Forthcoming   Cosmologies of Credit: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination. Duke University Press (in Press)

n.d.  The Attraction of Numbers: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzhou, China (under review for Anthropological Theory).

Forthcoming   Money to Burn: Cosmic Deficits and Value Production in a Transnational Chinese Village (preparation for American Anthropologist).

2009  Departing China: Identification Papers and the Pursuit of Burial Rights in Fuzhou, in Between Life and Death; Governing Populations in the Era of Human Rights, Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos, eds. (Frankfurt: Peter Lang).

2007  Equation Fixations: On the Whole and the Sum of Dollars in Foreign Exchange. In A. Truitt & S. Senders, eds., Money: Ethnographic Encounters. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

2006  To Be ‘Emplaced': Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination.  Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol. 13.

2001  When Alan Turning Was a Computer: Notes on the Rise and Decline of Punch Card Technologies. Connect: art.politics.theory.practice. Vol. 1, no. 2.

n.d   Youshen: Tour of the Gods, short video documentary produced and directed (in progress).

2000  Meet Halo Halo, 28-minute video documentary produced and directed.