
Jamie Wong
With great excitement, the Department of Anthropology welcomes Dr. Jamie Wong to Princeton University. Dr. Wong works at the interface of science and technology studies, political and economic anthropology, and China studies. She has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, in conjunction with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). Dr. Wong will be joining our community in Fall 2025, after completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
Jamie Wong received her PhD in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023. Wong earned a MSt in Musicology (with distinction) and a MPhil in Social Anthropology (with distinction) from Oxford University. She received a BA in Music (first class honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Dr. Wong creatively combines state-of-the-art social theory, a rigorous and ethical commitment to ethnographic research, and in-depth regional knowledge of China, with all too rare humanistic and comparative sensibility in her groundbreaking study of the relationship between computational technologies and governance in China (against the backdrop of emerging global systems of technology and finance) and the implications of internet culture and digital economy for Chinese society and civil discourse. She is currently completing her first book, The Weight of Scale: Venture Capitalism, Big Data, and Contemporary Chinese Governance.