Ruiyi Zhu

Ruiyi Zhu
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS), NYU Shanghai
Email
rz2926@nyu.edu
Room
N846

Ruiyi Zhu is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) at NYU Shanghai. She is a social anthropologist with a keen interest in China-Mongolia relations. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2023. Her doctoral research focuses on Chinese capital and labor in Mongolia’s post-socialist extractive economy. Her writing received the graduate student paper prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology, and her ethnographic photography was selected as a winner of the American Anthropological Association’s annual photo contest.

 

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Education

  •  PhD, Anthropology
     University of Cambridge (2023)

  • MPhil, Social Anthropology
    University of Cambridge (2018)

  • BA, History
    Pomona College (2014)

     

Research Interests

  • Economic anthropology 

  • Political anthropology 

  • Globalization 

  • Development 

  • Translation 

  • Food