{"id":12562,"date":"2021-10-01T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=12562"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:10:43","slug":"tianyi-bai","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/tianyi-bai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianyi Bai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Matriculated September 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<div>China, transgender and queer studies, futurity<\/div>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<div>Tianyi Bai is interested in transgender and queer studies and inter-Asian queer culture in general, and Chinese trans\/queer lifeways in particular. Tianyi\u2019s current research project is situated at the intersection of anthropological and queer studies on marginality, futurity, and transness. The project seeks to understand Chinese trans peoples&#8217; lifeways by paying particular attention to how they interact with futural indeterminacies. In doing so, Tianyi hopes to explore the intricate interconnections among geopolitical configurations, gendered national imaginaries, and lived precarity that shape local transgender livability.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Before joining Boston University, Tianyi completed their B.A. (<i>summa cum laude<\/i>) in Anthropology and Classics from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO (2017-2021). Their undergraduate thesis titled \u201cEthnicity and Religion: The Hui in Zhengzhou\u201d focuses on the Hui, an ethnic group categorized based on their supposed Muslim identity, and explores the historical particularities of Chinese secularism and the constitution of <i>minzu<\/i>\u00a0(ethnicity\/nationality) as well as their marginalizing impact on Chinese Muslim communities.<\/div>\n<h3>Awards &amp; Grants<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. (2024).<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Boston University Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship Long-term Grant (2024-2025).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Association for Asian Studies, East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) grant (July 2023).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Society for Psychology Robert Lemelson Fellowship (June 2023).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Boston University Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship Short-term Grant (May 2023).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Boston University Dean\u2019s Fellowship (Fall 2021, Spring 2022).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>forthcoming<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":14546,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12562\/revisions\/16297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}