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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

Anthropology, Cultural Geography, Women's Studies, Asian Studies - China

Research areas

China, gender, development, ethnicity, nationalism, tourism, migration, social justice, domestic violence

Education

Additional:Massachusetts State Certification for Secondary School - Social Studies, Harvard School of Education

BA, Harvard University, Philosophy and Chinese

MA, Anthropology, Temple University, 1998

PhD Anthropology, Temple University, 2001

Professional experience

University of Oxford School for Interdisciplinary and Area Studies, 2015 – 2016

Loyola University Maryland, Sociology & Global Studies, 2014 – 2015

University of Sydney, Asian Studies, 2010 – 2014

University of Oxford, Institute for Chinese Studies, 2008 – 2010

Skidmore College, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, 2004 – 2008

Memberships

American Anthropological Association, Association for Asian Studies

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 4427

Dr. Eileen Rose Walsh

Assistant Professor

PhD in Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Eileen Walsh has taught anthropology, gender and women’s studies, Chinese studies, and development studies for more than 15 years at institutions such as the University of Massachusetts, Yale University, the University of Sydney and the University of Oxford. She began teaching at American University of Sharjah in Fall 2017. Her research and teaching interests include China, globalization, development, gender, nationalism, ethnicity, social justice and domestic violence. Dr. Walsh has conducted longitudinal research in Southwest China. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Walsh worked with immigrants and refugees in Boston.

Publications

“The Anthropology of China’s Frontier: From the Periphery to the Centre,” Invited review article, special issue of Social Anthropology 19, 1 (2009)

“From Nu Guo to Nu’er Guo: Negotiating Desire in the Land of the Mosuo” Modern China, October 2005 31(4) 448-486

“"Sex "Suggested" and Power Play: Notes on Harassment in the Field” Invited submission to Berliner China-Hefte Series, Volume 28: 56-67. Bettina Gransow, Pál Nyíri, Shiaw-Chian Fong (eds), China: New Faces of Ethnography, Muenster: LIT, 2005. [Pseudonym Helen Brannagh]

“The Na” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, Human Relations Area Files, Kluwer and Plenum. 2004

Review of A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China. Cai Hua, in The American Ethnologist. 2002

“Living with the Myth of Matriarchy: Tourism and the Mosuo” In Tourism, Anthropology and China, Tan Chee-Beng, Sidney C.H.Cheung and Yang Hui ed.s, White Lotus Press. 2001

Conference Presentations

Tourism, Consumption and the Making of the Chinese Middle Class? The Fourth International Conference on Chinese Society and China Studies, Centre for Contemporary China Studies, Nanjing University, China, October 2012

Developing Gender Peripheries and the Nation: Tourism as Development? Reconsidering Gender in Asian Studies Conference, University of Otego, New Zealand, June 2012

Elites Tour, Ethnics/ Peasants Host: Nostalgia, Poverty and Purity in China?s Domestic Tourism?, University of Melbourne Conference on China Chinese Elites and their Rivals: Past, Present and Future, July 2010

Peasant Hosts: Modern Traditionals in Rural China? Assoc for Asian Studies Meetings, March 2010

International Organizations and Legal Development in China? British Inter-University China Centre conference, The Global Politics of China, 27-29 November 2009

Beyond Civilized Centers and Primitive Peripheries: Ethnic Politics in Northwest Yunnan? Centrality Viewed from the Borders conference, University of Oxford, November 2009

Selling Pleasure: The Structural and Gender Shifts Brought by Tourism as Development? Women, Gender and Development in Rural China Conference, ANU China Institute Annual Symposium series, August 2009

Theorizing Gender in Ethnic China? Association for Asian Studies Meetings. Chicago, March 2009

Free Love? for Sale: Tourism and the Mosuo of SW China? Oxford Anthropology Seminar, November 2008

Searching for Humanity: Touring Nature and ?Natural People?? British Association for Chinese Studies Meetings. University of Leeds, September 2008

Staging Ethnicity: When Identity Is Marketed? Assoc for Asian Studies Meetings. Atlanta, April 2008

Cultural Preservation and Ethnic Tourism: The New Cultural Politics in Yunnan? American Anthropological Association Meetings Washington, D.C., November, 2007

Primitivity, Cosmopolitanism and Sexual Autonomy? Canadian Anthropological Society and American Ethnological Society Conference, Toronto, May 2007

The Politics of Pollution at Lugu Lake? Assoc of Social Anthropologists Meetings, London, April 2007

Who Is Polluting Lugu Lake?" Association for Asian Studies Meetings. San Francisco, March 2006

Reflections on the Practice: Exoticism, Desire and Fieldwork? Invited Speaker, Senior Seminar Colloquia, Emerson College, March 24, 2005

Chinese Tourists on Their Periphery?, European Assoc. of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, August 2004

Of Matriarchies, Misses, and Minorities?, Harvard Globalization /Femininities/Masculinities. April 24, 2004

Tasting the Others: Toward Theorizing Ethnotourism, Authenticity and Orientalist Desire?, Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group. March 19, 2004

"The Politics of Family: Pretending the Public is Private" ? Downer Consortium, Lawrence University, March 8, 2004

Consumed as Ethnic Other, Consuming as National Identity? ? Global Frameworks and Local Realities: Social and Cultural Identities in Making and Consuming Tourism ? University of Brighton, September 2003

Negotiating Desire in the Daughters? Country: Gender, Tourism and the Mosuo? ? Canadian Anthropology Society Meetings. Halifax, May 2003

From the Huo Fo's House to the Sex Workers Hygiene: How the State Manages "Ethnic" "Tourism"? ? Association for Asian Studies Meetings. New York, March 2003

Awards and Honors

Research Grant, Carnegie-Mellon Foundation 2007

Research Grant, Skidmore College 2006

Luce Award for young faculty in China Studies, Luce Foundation 2004 - 2007

Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies 2002-2003

Research Grant, Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, American Council of Learned Societies, 1998-1999