- Email:
- iasprogs@indiana.edu
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Wuerxiya is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, where she is focusing on studies on craft, with a special concern for traditional textiles across Asia and on the craft practices of minority nationalities in China (especially in Southwest China and along the silk Road). She holds a Master of Ethnomusicology from Minzu University of China and a Master in Arts and Administration from the University of Oregon. Before she joined IAS, she worked as a graduate assistant and collection assistant at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She has been involved in bi-national collaboration projects, such as the ChinaVine project and the Luce Foundation-funded China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, leading fieldwork trips to multiple cultural sites and visiting local communities. She is just back from her eight months of fieldwork in Yunnan, Southwest China, funded by the Asian Cultural Council. Currently, she is writing her dissertation on the craft of tie-dye textiles among the Bai people of Southwest China.