Mikkel Bunkenborg

Current research

I am currently engaged in a collaborative ethnographic project on food and morality in China. The project is called Moral Economies of Food in Contemporary China and it is financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research in the Humanities. For more information, see http://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres-and-projects/moral-economies-of-food-in-contemporary-china/

Teaching

I teach and supervise in the field of Chinese language and contemporary Chinese society with a special focus on fieldwork, interviews and qualitative methods, and on the anthropological and ethnographic literature on China. 

Primary fields of research

I approach contemporary Chinese society and the sinophone world with ethnographic methods and take a particular interest in the following topics.

• Bodies, health, and medicine
• Religion, ritual, and politics in rural China
• Chinese projects outside China proper and emerging relations of intimacy
• Material things such as incense, infrastructure, and natural resources
• Food and morality
• Ethnographic methods and anthropological theory

CV

2015-       Associate Professor, China Studies ToRS, University of Copenhagen.
2013-15    Assistant Professor, China Studies ToRS, University of Copenhagen.
2009-12    Post doc at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
2005-9      Ph.d. student at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
2004-5      External lecturer at ToRS, University of Copenhagen.
2003-5      Teaching assistant at the Asian Studies Programme, Copenhagen Business School.