I am a PhD student on the Culture and Society track, interested in Chinese epistemological modes and visions of development, and how recent Chinese migrants to South America and Africa construct notions of place within global value hierarchies. I was graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 2012 with a B.A. in Anthropology, where my thesis examined social interactions between Chinese and Batswana in Gaborone, Botswana, particularly Chinese sponsorship of the Botswana Table Tennis Association. At Stanford, I plan to shift this focus to Peru and how recent Fujianese migrants and Peruvians, including the established Chinese-Peruvian community, consider their relationship to the narrativized rise of the PRC.