Dr. Lisa Richaud is currently Research Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, and will join KU Leuven as Assistant Professor in Anthropology. Her latest articles can be found in Ethos and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, where she edited a special section on the politics of negative affects in post-Reform China. She is also a former fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.