Professor of Anthropology
tracy2me@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Syracuse University
B.A., Middlebury College
Teaching
Cultural Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of East Asia, Biopower and Technoscience, The Contemporary Silk Road, Gender and Society
Research
Standardization and Accountability; Corporations and Culture; Sustainable Agriculture; China; Citizenship, Nationalism and Ethnic Minorities; Post-Socialism and Neoliberalism; China’s Dairy Industry; E-Waste
Publications
2021 Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation, Special Issue “Cultures of Fermentation,” Current Anthropology 62(S24):S276-S286. doi.org/10.1086/714345
2020 Heritage Hands and Tastes of the Pandemic. International Journal of Cultural Property. 27(4): 481–488. doi:10.1017/S0940739121000011.
2018 (Re)making Quality in China's Dairy Industry. Asian Anthropology. 17(4):237-253.
2018 Tracy, Megan and Rebecca Howes-Mischel. Gender, Microbial Relations, and the Fermentation of Food. Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures/Cuizine: Revue des cultures culinaires au Canada. 9(1).
2016 Mulitmodality, Transparency and Food Safety in China. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 39(S1):34-53.
2014 Zhong, Zhen, Shufen Chen, Xiangzhi Kong, and Megan Tracy. Why Improving Agrifood Quality is Difficult in China: Evidence from the Dairy Industry. China Economic Review 31:74-83.
2013 "Pasteurizing China's Grasslands and Producing Terroir." American Anthropologist 115(3): 437-451
2010 “The Mutability of Melamine: A Transductive Account of a Scandal” Anthropology Today. 26(6):4-8.
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