Wu Da

Biography

2000-2004 Ph.D. in anthropology, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong. 1998-2000 MPhil in anthropology, Department of Anthropology, CUHK. 1985-1989 BA in linguistics, Department of Languages and Literatures of Minority Nationalities, Minzu University of China (MUC), Beijing. 04/2014-06/2014 Visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. 07/2013-present Director, Center for the Study of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity（民族文化多样性研究中心）, MUC. 11/2012-present Professor of ethnology and linguistic anthropology, School of Ethnology and Sociology, MUC. 05/2008-10/2012 Professor of anthropology, School of Social and Political Studies, Shanghai University. 05/2012-10/2012 visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. 10/2007-04/2008 Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Research Interest

Anthropology of Ethnicity; Anthropology of Food; Linguistic Anthropology; Religious Anthropology; Ethnology; Yi and Ersu (Tibetan) studies