Ziqi Xie

Ziqi Xie

My Biography

Ziqi is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Boston University, expecting to graduate in May 2025. Ziqi’s research interests include reproduction, biomedical technologies, medical knowledge production, kin-making, gender, population governance, pronatalism, and neoliberalism. Ziqi is currently completing her dissertation, tentatively titled “Making an ‘Ideal Family’ Through Assisted Reproduction: Family, Reproductive Governance, and Biomedicine in Pro-natalist China.” As a medical anthropologist, Ziqi aspires to expand the diversity of authoritative voices and intellectual traditions in health and medicine in both U.S. and Asian academia.