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Featured Faculty Member: Dr. Andrea Louie
Dr. Louie launches a new research project on shifting international student identities in the context of post-industrial Michigan, building on her previous body of work examining Chineseness in the context of transnational migration, globalization, and government projects of inclusion and exclusion in both China and the U.S. As an undergraduate, Dr. Louie majored in History and Anthropology at Bowdoin College, taking her first anthropology course with an inspirational visiting professor named Harald Prins, who encouraged her to explore her burgeoning interest in Chinese American identity in his course on Native Americans. He also encouraged Dr. Louie to apply to graduate school at U.C.…
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Masako Fujita
Dr. Masako Fujita has been a faculty member in MSU anthropology since Fall 2008. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she focused on biocultural anthropology. Her research focuses on nutrition and health of living people. In particular, Fujita studies micronutrient health, maternal & child nutrition, and the idea of parental investment in elucidating resource transfer from one generation to the next. The factors examined include not only time and energy, but also biological resources such as nutrients and immune cells. In her laboratory, the Biomarker Laboratory for Anthropological Research at MSU, Fujita will pursue her research…