Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System

Jerry Zee

Princeton University

Jerry Zee is assistant professor in Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. His work takes shape at the intersection of the environmental humanities, political theory, feminist science studies, and experimental ethnography, and moves across China and the Pacific with the movement of Chinese dusts, moneys, and people. He completed his PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley and, before arriving at Princeton, was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis, and an assistant professor of Anthropology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Among other sources, his work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the UC Pacific Rim Foundation, and the Center for Contemporary China. He is the author of the book Continent of Dust (University of California Press, 2022).