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Emily Ng serves as Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, maintaining office hours in Milbank 317 on Wednesdays 4:30-5:30pm by appointment via Calendly. Her academic work bridges psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of religion with regional specialization in China.
Her educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology (joint program with University of California, San Francisco) from University of California, Berkeley
- B.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Ng investigates madness and mental illness, subjectivity, and religiosity through the lens of historical trauma reverberation across generations and geographies. Her ethnographic research in urban/rural China examines spirit mediumship and post-socialist cosmologies, as documented in her monograph A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao (2020), with recent expansion into diaspora communities.
No scientific awards are documented. Information regarding student advising, research grants, laboratory affiliations, or team leadership is not provided in available sources.
