Adjunct Associate Professorswelland@uw.eduPadelford Hall B-110PFields of Interest Asian American East Asian Ethnography Feminism and Feminist Theory Sociocultural Anthropology Visual Culture Background and ExperienceSummarySasha Welland is Associate Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and an affiliated faculty member in Anthropology, China Studies and Comparative History of Ideas and of the graduate certificate programs in Cinema & Media Studies and Public Scholarship. Her first book, A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), traces the social history and border-crossing lives of two “modern girls,” a writer and a doctor, who emerged from China’s early twentieth-century women’s movement. A new book Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art (Duke University Press, 2018) is an ethnography of Chinese contemporary art as a zone of cultural encounter, in which post-socialist revaluations of rural and urban space, public and private boundaries, and masculinity and femininity are represented and questioned. An editorial board member of Journal of Visual Culture, Welland has also published articles in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. She has curated feminist art exhibits in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Affiliated Departments: Arts & SciencesHumanitiesComparative History of IdeasSocial SciencesGender, Women & Sexuality StudiesJackson School of International StudiesChina Studies Research Publications, Books Sasha Su-Ling Welland. Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Projects Welland, Sasha. Experimental Beijing: Contemporary Art Worlds in China’s Capital. N.p., n.d. Web. (Ongoing) Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Byler, Darren. Spirit Breaking: Uyghur Dispossession, Culture Work and Terror Capitalism in a Chinese Global City. Diss. U of Washington. 2018. Courses Taught Winter 2020 ANTH 353 A: Feminist Anthropology Autumn 2019 ANTH 235 A: Global Feminist Art Winter 2019 ANTH 328 A: Gender and Sexuality in China Winter 2018 ANTH 442 A: Global Asia Autumn 2017 ANTH 235 A: Global Feminist Art Spring 2016 ANTH 429 A: Expressive Culture ANTH 469 A: Special Studies In Anthropology ANTH 569 B: Special Topics In Sociocultural Anthropology Winter 2016 ANTH 235 A: Global Feminist Art - Course Website Autumn 2015 ANTH 353 A: Feminist Anthropology - Course Website Additional CoursesGWSS 490 A / GWSS 590 D: Ethnographic Studio (Spring 2018 Canvas Syllabus)This craft-based workshop supports advanced undergraduate and graduate students to develop ethnographic research within creative formats alternative to the predominant practice of analytic, propositional prose. It provides a collaborative environment for students to explore the relationship between ethnographic content and form. For more about the history of the course, see “Ethnography Unbound: Experiments in New Scholarship.” News & Events Related News Anthropologist explores China's changing art scene in 'Experimental Beijing' May 25, 2018 In the Press Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art Mar 15, 2018 Faculty | Staff News 2015 May 1, 2015 An Anthropological View of Gender and Sexuality in China Apr 1, 2015 Faculty News 2010 May 1, 2010 Share: Print PDF