Yale Diversity Italian Studies Working Group

Grazia Ting Deng, lecturer in anthropology at Brandeis University. She is a sociocultural anthropologist working at the intersection of the Chinese diaspora and immigrant Italy. Her work broadly focuses on migration, racial formation, global capitalism, and labor and health. She is the author of Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy (Princeton University Press, 2024). Her works have appeared in Anthropologica, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnography, Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, and International Migration.