Zhang Youchun is Professor of Anthropology at Department of Anthropology, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China. He is the author of a few books including Medical Anthropology (2011), Poverty, Development, and Culture (2014), Four Collections on Fieldwork (2016) and Illness, Healing and Culture: An Anthropological Approach (2023). He is coeditor of Body, Narrative, and Subjectivity (2020).

Education and Training

Jan.2008- Feb. 2008 Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship Program—— Strengthening HIV Social Research Capacity amongst Chinese HIV Social Research Leaders ）

Sept. 2003-May 2004 Fogarty Fellow at Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Sep. 1999- June 2002 Postgraduate Student in Anthropology (Ph.D.), CUN, Beijing,China

Sep. 1994-June 1997 Graduate Student in Anthropology in Anthropology, CUN

Sep. 1990-July 1994 Undergraduate student in Ethnology, CUN

Working Experiences

Sept. 2017-- Professor at Renmin University of China

Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2017 Associate Professor at Renmin University of China

July. 2002- August 2006 Assistant researcher at Chinese CDC

Office Address: Department of Anthropology, Renmin University of China

No.207, Chongde Xilou, Renmin University of China, Haidian District, Beijing 100860 China

E-mail address: youchun_zhang@126.com