Sasha Welland
University of Washington
Associate Professor in Anthropology and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Seattle, WA
Sasha Welland is Associate Professor in
Anthropology and
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and an affiliated faculty member in
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 forthcoming book
Monumental Ephemeral: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art (Duke University Press) 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. She serves on the
University of Washington Press Committee.