Susan Brownell
Visiting Professor in Anthropology and East Asian Studies (September 2014 - December 2014)
Institution:
University of Missouri - St. Louis
Areas of interest :
Sports and Body Culture in China; Cultural Anthropology
Region:
China
Dr. Susan Brownell received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1990, and joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri—St. Louis in the fall of 1994. Dr. Brownell is an internationally recognized expert on Chinese sports and has done fieldwork in China, primarily in Beijing. Her research interests are sports and body culture. In 2007-08 she was a Fulbright Senior Researcher at the Beijing Sport University, doing research on the Beijing Olympic Games. At UMSL, she teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Ideas and Explanations in Anthropology; Senior Seminar; History, Theory and Practice of Anthropology; The Body in Culture; and Cultures of East Asia.