Dr Adam Chau
BA(Williams College, Massachusetts), PhD (Stanford)
Fellow
Subject: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Department: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Role:
Director of Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Tutor for Graduate Students
Email: ayc25@cam.ac.uk
Phone: (+44 1223 7) 68461
Profile
Dr. Adam Chau is a socio-cultural anthropologist specialising in Chinese religions. He is the University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES). He was born in Beijing, China, and grew up in Beijing and Hong Kong. He received his training in anthropology at Williams College, Massachusetts (BA 1993) and Stanford University (PhD 2001). His doctoral research was on the politics around, and the cultural logics behind, the resurgence of religion in rural China during the reform period (1980s onward), which resulted in the monograph Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press 2006). More recently he has edited Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation (Routledge 2011) and is working on three book manuscripts. He has also contributed to numerous journals and edited volumes. At Fitzwilliam College Dr. Chau serves as Director of Studies for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Archaeology and Anthropology (co-DoS with Dr. John Robb), supervises some social anthropology papers and is also one of the Graduate Tutors.