PhD STUDENT, ANTHROPOLOGY
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Tianyi Bai is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in sociocultural anthropology, broadly interested in the anthropology of the state, emotions and affect, transnational feminism, and postcolonial studies. Tianyi’s current project focuses on transgender and queer communities in China, with a focus on how marginality influence trans/queer folks’ imaginary of their futures. To read more about Bai’s research and publications, visit their webpage.
In Spring 2024, Tianyi received a CISS Summer mini-grant to partially support their anthropological dissertation field research. Learn more in our featured article.