Kevin Carrico
Kevin Carrico is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University and currently an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow. Kevin is a sociocultural anthropologist who researches nationalism, ethnic relations, and political culture in China, Tibet, and Hong Kong.
He is the author of The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today (University of California Press, 2017) and the translator of Tsering Woeser's Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations against Chinese Rule (Verso Press, 2016). He is currently completing a manuscript on China-Hong Kong relations and the emergence of a Hong Kong independence movement.
Kevin's articles have been published in the China Journal, Nations and Nationalism, Hong Kong Studies, and Asian Cinema. Outside of academia, Kevin's writings have been featured in Foreign Policy, the Age, Hong Kong Free Press, Taipei Times, Voice of Tibet, China Brief, and Anthropology News.
His research has also been featured very prominently in the Beijing-owned Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po.
Kevin is accepting PhD students with compatible research interests.
- Research interests
- Nationalism, racism, and ethnic tensions in China
- Constructions of tradition in China
- Hong Kong political culture and independence activism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Psychoanalytical anthropology
- Luhmann and social systems theory
- Anthropology of anthropology
- Spheres theory
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, Cornell University
- Kevin Carrico received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and wrote a dissertation on
- "The Imaginary Institution of China: Dialectics of Fantasy and Failure in the Nationalist Experience."
- Dr. Carrico taught Contemporary Chinese Society Through Independent Documentary Film in spring 2014
Source: Monash University, Center for East Asian Studies - Stanford University
