Shan Yang

My research concerns how ordinary people respond to an accelerated infusion of material and financial investments as lives are punctuated by the logic of speculative time. My intended Ph.D. project explores the debt-financed infrastructure scramble in East Africa. My anthropological approach will examine the multiple transformations, interpretations, contestations, and resistances engendered by infrastructure-led development projects. 

Prior to joining Stanford, I taught courses on political economy, urban, temporality, gender, and migration at Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2019 – 2022). I received academic training in Gender Studies and Anthropology at the American University in Cairo and hold an MA in Middle East Studies (2019).