Rundong Ning

Graduate Student

Division:

Sociocultural

Adviser(s):

Helen F. Siu

Degree(s):

B.S. Peking University, Biological Sciences, 2012 // M.Phil. University of Hong Kong, Sociocultural Anthropology, 2014

rundong.ning@yale.edu

My research mainly looks at the process of economic diversification in the Republic of Congo, an oil-producing country in central Africa. I am interested in how an idea of national economy of Congo emerges from and is constantly renegotiated by the imaginations, abstractions, and frictions that are involved in this process. Before this project, I did research on volunteerism in contemporary China during my master study in collaboration with Prof. David Palmer. In general, I am interested in economic anthropology, development studies, and China-Africa connections.