I am a socio-cultural anthropologist and a science and technology studies (STS) scholar in gender, medicine, and the body. Currently, I am a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary program of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) at MIT.

My dissertation research focuses on trans* subjects and the multiplicity of their experiments and improvisations with medicine, kinship, and the law through care, mobilities, and knowledge production in China and the Chinese diaspora.

I have broadly written about queer and trans science and medicine. My published work has appeared in Social Science & Medicine and Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Some of the research keywords that I think with are: medical hybridities, hormones, surgeries, experiments, tinkering, and the material-semiotic.

Please feel free to get in touch with me via thelmaw[at]mit.edu