Jamie Wong is an economic and political anthropologist and a scholar of science and technology studies. She's currently an Academy Scholar at The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She will be joining Princeton University in Fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor with joint appointment at the Department of Anthropology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).
Jamie's research focuses on the relationship between computational technologies and governance in China, particularly within the context of emerging global systems of technology and finance. Her first book project, titled The Weight of Scale, stems from her dissertation research and explores the convergence of venture capitalism, the digital economy, and Chinese statecraft. Through fieldwork with venture capital investors, start-up founders, and their corporate and government partners, she investigates how their understanding and practices of nested logics of “scale" herald new configurations of Chinese state and society. In parallel, she also examines the implications of China's internet culture and digital economy for governance and civil discourse.
Jamie's dissertation research was supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. She obtained her PhD in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.