Jenny Chio

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, 2009 – 2012

Tenure Track Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, 2012 – 2018

Other Employment

• Faculty Fellow, USC Society of Fellows, 2021 – 2023
• Visiting Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Center for Experimental Ethnography, Spring 2021

Research Specialties

Media ethnography; Race, ethnicity, and nationalism; Anthropology of modernity; Collective memory; Cultural heritage; Tourism and migration; Documentary practice; Contemporary China

Book

• Chio, J. (2014). A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Open Access
• Chio, Jenny; Sun, Wanning (Ed.). (2012). Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

• Chio, J. (2020). Theorizing In/Of Ethnographic Film. Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video London: Routledge.
• Chio, J. (2017). Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China. Asian Video Cultures pp. 35-53. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Chio, J. (2017). Rural Films in an Urban Festival: Community Films and Cultural Translation at the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival. Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation pp. 279-299. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Chio, J. (2013). Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Claiming Heritage in the Longji Terraced Fields Scenic Area. Cultural Heritage Politics in China pp. 143-159. New York: Springer.
• Chio, J. (2012). Village videos and the visual mainstream in rural, ethnic Guizhou. Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality pp. 79-93. London: Routledge.
• Chio, J. (2011). Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research. Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues, Reflections pp. 209-219. London: Routledge.
• Chio, J. (2009). The Internal Expansion of China: Tourism and the Production of Distance. Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism pp. 207-220. New York: Routledge.

Essay

• Chio, J. (2020). A Very American ‘Solution’ in a Chinese Owned Factory: Commentary on “American Factory” (2019, dir. Julia Reichart and Steven Bognar). Docalogue. Online access

Encyclopedia Article

• Chio, J. (2021). Race and Cultural Heritage. (John L. Jackson, Jr., Ed.). Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology.
• Chio, J. (2021). Visual Anthropology. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Open Access

Journal Article

• Luvaas, B., Chio, J. (2025). Translating Sustainability into Somatic Experience: Renderings of Eco-Cities in Southeast Asia. Signs and Society. Online First
• Chio, J. (2024). Them-You-Us: The Thirty Boys (dir. Mukaddas Mijit). HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Vol. 14 (2) Online version
• Chio, J., Neves, J. (2023). A Conversation about Futurity, Critique, and Political Imagination. Made in China Journal. Read Online (link)
• Chio, J., Johnson, J. H. (2022). “Can you hear me now?”: A Conversation on Equity, Empathy, and (Playful) Solidarity. Verge: Studies in Global Asia. Vol. 8 (1), pp. 102-106. Issue contents
• Chio, J., Gill, T., Gonzalez, V. V., Harp, S. L., McDonald, K., Rosenbaum, A. T., Thomas, L. L. (2020). Discussion: Tourism and Race. Journal of Tourism History. Online
• Chio, J. (2019). The Miao Festival Crowd: Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in ‘Minority’ China. Current Anthropology. Vol. 60 (4), pp. 536-558.
• Takaragawa, S., Smith, T. L., Hennessy, K., Alvarez Astacio, P., Chio, J., Nye, C., Shankar, S. (2019). Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal. American Anthropologist. Vol. 121 (2), pp. 517-524.
• Chio, J. (2018). Afterword: Filmmaking as Critical Participant Observation. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, special issue, “Film and Contemporary Representations of the Exotic Other: Gazing through Filmic Eyes”. Vol. 6 (3), pp. 297-300.
• Chio, J. (2018). From the stadium to the screen: bullfights and their mediated afterlife in Southwest China. Asian Anthropology. Vol. 17 (4), pp. 254-275.
• Chio, J. (2017). Rendering Rural Modernity: Spectacle and Power in a Chinese Ethnic Tourism Village. Critique of Anthropology. Vol. 37 (4), pp. 418-439.
• Chio, J. (2017). Introduction: Rural as Space and Sociality. Critique of Anthropology. Vol. 37 (4), pp. 361-363.
• Chio, J. (2017). Guiding Lines. Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology Website.
• Chio, J. (2014). Fieldwork, Film, and the Tourist Gaze: Making Nong Jia Le Peasant Family Happiness. Visual Anthropology Review. Vol. 30 (1), pp. 62-72.
• Robinson, L., Chio, J. (2013). Making Space for Chinese Indpendent Documentary: The Case of Yunfest 2011. Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Vol. 7 (1), pp. 21-40.
• Chio, J. (2011). Leave the fields without leaving the countryside: Modernity and mobility in rural, ethnic China. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol. 18 (6), pp. 551-575.
• Chio, J. (2010). China’s Campaign for Civilized Tourism: What to Do When Tourists Behave Badly. Anthropology News. Vol. November, pp. 14-15.

• Ethnographic Film, Nong Jia Le Peasant Family Happiness (2013) |
  Distributed by Berkeley Media |
  70 minutes, digital video, color |
  http://www.berkeleymedia.com/product/peasant_family_happiness/ , 2013 –
• Multimedia , “On the Spectacle of Being Our-(Miao)-Selves”
  Three videos, one text
  Published in Made in China Journal, Bending Chineseness, January-June 2024.

  Online at
  https://madeinchinajournal.com/2024/08/18/on-the-spectacle-of-being-our-miao-selves/, 2024 –

• Exhibition (Group Show), The time to home, the way to home (2025): video and sound recordings, four wooden stools

  Part of the group show “Our Gaze: Art, Anthropology, and Asian Imagery” at the museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

  Website: https://artmuseum.gzarts.edu.cn/info/1249/6749.htm, 03/2025 – 05/2025

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Recipient, Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2021 – 2024
• Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennslyvania, Spring 2021
• Morphomata Fellowship for Former Grantees, University of Cologne, Germany, 2020
• Workshop Grant on Portraits in the 21st Century, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (co-organizer), 2018-2019
• Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship for Ethnographic Film, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2017-2018
• Heritales Film Festival Honorable Mention (Medium-Long Film) for Nong JIa Le Peasant Family Happiness, Fall 2017
• Morphomata Research Fellow, University of Cologne, Germany, 2016-2017
• David Plath Media Award for Nong Jia Le Peasant Family Happiness, 2013-2014

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Editorial Board Member, Visual Anthropology, 2025 –
• Editorial Board Member, Visual Anthropology Review, 2018 –
• Editorial Board Member, China on Film (Digital Database), 2023 – 2025
• Co-Editor, Visual Anthropology Review, 2015 – 2018

Other Service to the Profession

• Co-Director of the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, 2013 – 2014