Suzanne Zhang Gottschang is the Henry Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology. Professor Zhang Gottschang received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998, and obtained a Masters degree in Public Health and a Masters degree in Anthropology from UCLA. She held the An Wang post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research in 1999, and was a visiting scholar at China's Academy of Preventative Medicine. Her research focuses on women, health, globalization, and socio-economic change in mainland China. Professor Zhang Gottschang's first field project in China in 1985 examined diet and shopping behavior among urban Beijing families. From 1994 to 1996, she conducted research on motherhood among Beijing women. She is currently completing a manuscript based on this research titled: Hospitalizing Motherhood: Gender, Medicine and Modernity in China.

Professor Zhang-Gottschang's publications include "The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body" in China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture, co-edited by Nancy Chen, Constance Clark, Suzanne Zhang Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffrey (Duke University Press, 2001), "A Baby-Friendly Hospital and the Science of Infant Feeding" in Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children and Social Change edited by Jun Jing (Stanford University Press 2001), and "Reforming Routines: A Baby Friendly Hospital in China" in The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field: Globalization, Health, and Identity edited by Linda Whiteford and Lenore Manderson (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001).

Professor Zhang-Gottschang's regular course offerings include: The City and the Countryside in China, Women and Modernity in East Asia, Introduction to East Asian Societies and Cultures, Marriage and Motherhood, and The Anthropology of Food.

Phone: 413-585-3544
Building: 138 Elm Street
E-mail: szhang@smith.edu