Governance, Informal Sector, Critical Ethnography, Socialism, Political Economy, Cuba, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Qiu did fieldwork about the elders' living situation in nursing homes in China. Later on, her research interests shifted to Cuba. Qiu then conducted intermittent fieldwork in Santiago de Cuba and Havana between 2018 to 2022. She is interested in Cuba because Cuba shares asynchronous popular responses with China under similar political configurations, regardless of ethnicity, geography, languages, and other cultural differentiations in these two late-socialist countries. More specifically, through ethnographic researches, she looks into Cuban people's post-revolutionary livelihood by studying informal economy, governance, and tourism. Qiu teaches undergraduate courses for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Mason.
ANTH 114: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 302: Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
M.A. in Anthropology, Louisiana State University
B.L. in Sociology, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law
2023 "Governance, Rituality, and Waithood of Public Life in Post-socialist Cuba" at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)& Société canadienne d'anthropologie/the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), Toronto, Canada
2023 "To the End of the Line: Economic Transition, Tourism, and Everyday Waiting in Cuba" at 47th Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), US Virgin Islands at St. Croix, the United States of America
2019 "Parque Céspedes: Tourism and Market in Post-revolutionary Cuba" at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)& Société canadienne d'anthropologie/the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), Vancouver BC, Canada