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Our Faculty Zachary Moss Howlett

Associate Professor Zachary M Howlett is a sociocultural anthropologist of China and Chinese diasporas. After completing his BA in German Studies at Brown University, he spent several years in China working as a teacher and translator. In 2008, he entered the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University, which awarded him an MA in 2011 and a PhD in 2016. Assoc Prof Howlett has received a variety of academic honours, including a Jacob K Javits Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship, and was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He served as Head of Studies for Yale-NUS Anthropology for the 2020/21 academic year. He has testified before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), a Congressionally chartered agency that advises the US Congress on relations with China. He is an elected member of the board of the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA), where he serves as a councilor (2022-23-24).