Jo Ann Wang

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, Stanford University (2024)
  • Ph.D. Minor: History
  • Graduate Certificate: Science, Technology, and Society
• M.A. in Anthropology, National Taiwan University (2016)
• B.S. in Public Health and B.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University (2012)

• Diaspora placemaking
• Environmental futuring
• Migration, mobility, and immobility
• Oil, energy, and technopolitics
• Race, ethnicity, and identity
• Rural development
• Southeast Asia
   

• EA 10 Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
• EA 106 Climate Policy and Transition Praxis: Global Perspectives (Spring 2025)
• EA 116 Technopolitics of the Grid (Summer 2025)
• FS 067 Hauntology: Ghosts, Specters, and Spirits (Fall 2025)

2025 - Futuring in the Ruins of Development: Or How to Care for Wild Ghosts and Displaced Gods. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, U.S.A. November 19-23.

2024 - Refinery of the Future: Sustainable Downstream Oil Development, Rural Modernity, and Transition Desires in Malaysia. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Florida, U.S.A. November 20-23.

2023 - Living Kampung in Taman: Reclaiming Chinese Rurality in Developing Malaysia. American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada. November 15-19.

2022 - Resettling Communities: The Reinvention of Identity in the Aftermath of Development. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, U.S.A. November 9-13.

2017 - Failing/Failed Indigeneity: Identity Politics and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. November 29-December 3.

The Claremont Colleges

2025-2026 - Professional Development Network Grant: Browning the Blue Humanities With Lisa Han (Pitzer), Eduard Fanthome (Pitzer), Aimee Bahng (Pomona), Lynn Itagaki (CMC), Rachel Mayeri (HMC), Isabel Beavers (HMC), and Brandi Lee Cooper (Scripps)

Pitzer College

2024-2025 - Doman Faculty Fellowship in Social Sciences

2024-2025 - JF Harmon: Faculty-Student Summer Research Assistantship Program Award

2024-2025 - Teaching, Learning, and Campus Life Committee: Teaching and Learning Fund

2024-2025 - Racial Justice Initiative: Class Speaker Award

Stanford University

2023-2024 - Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Written Expression by a Ph.D. Student in Anthropology (Department Nomination)

2023-2024 - Stanford Humanities Center: Next Generation Scholar Fellowship

2022-2023 - Program in History and Philosophy of Science: History of Science Dissertation Fellowship Award

2021-2022 - Stanford Humanities Center: Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2019-2021 - Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Sciences for Exceptional Rising Doctoral Candidates (Department Nomination)

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

2019-2020 - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant