Jamie 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 and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. She will join Princeton in Fall 2025, after completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. 

Wong's research broadly focuses on the relationship between computational technologies and governance in China against the backdrop of emerging global systems of technology and finance. Through fieldwork among venture capital investors, startup founders, and their government partners in China, she ethnographically investigates how their understanding and practices of nested logics of “scale” shape subjectivities and configurations of Chinese state and society. She is currently completing her first book, The Weight of Scale: Venture Capitalism, Big Data, and Contemporary Chinese Governance. She also studies the implications of China's internet culture and digital economy for governance and civil discourse. 

She obtained her PhD in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.