Shanni Zhao
2021-23 Graduate Student Associate; PhD Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
shannizhao@g.harvard.edu
Shanni Zhao’s dissertation project takes state-sponsored matchmaking as a vantage point to study the formation of affective publics in China’s metropolises, and, thereby, the relations between marriage-making and state-making, and between power and attraction.
Research Interests: anthropology; women, gender, and sexuality studies