Areas of Focus
- Food Culture
- Identity
- Migration
- Multiculturalism
- Localization of Islam in China
Work Experience
- 2015 - Present - Fudan University - Associate Research Fellow
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2015 - PhD in Cultural Anthropology: University of Otago
- 2009 - Master's in Cultural Anthropology: Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2008 - Master's in Linguistics and Translation (Chinese-English Interpretation and Translation): University of New South Wales
Publications
- Dialogue: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Modernization - A Uyghur Pottery Inheritor's Perspective, Mei Ding, 2016
- Re-understanding 'Frontier' - Chinese Cross-border Ethnic Studies in an International Context, Mei Ding, 2016
- From Xinjiang to Australia: Shifted Meanings of Being Russian, Mei Ding, 2015
- Encountering Modernisation, Mei Ding, 2017
