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Susan Brownell is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Missouri St. Louis, where she has been based since 1994. She has also taught at Middlebury College, the University of Washington, Yale University, and Heidelberg University. She is an expert on sport in China, the Olympic Games, World’s Fairs, and the anthropology of the body and gender.

She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Biography
Dr. Brownell grew up in Virginia. She traces her interest in China back to the stories told by her grandmother, whose father, Earl L. Brewer, was governor of Mississippi (1012–16), a civil rights proponent, and lawyer for the Mississippi Chinese Association in the 1910s and 20s. Her love of anthropology began as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, where she took Victor Turner's famous seminar, in which the participants reenacted different rituals from around the world.

She was also a nationally-ranked track and field athlete in the United States before she joined the track team at Beijing University in 1985-86, while she was there for a year of Chinese language studies. She represented Beijing in the 1986 Chinese National College Games and set a national record in the heptathlon. In 1987-88 she returned to the Beijing Sport University for a year of dissertation research, and has since visited that institution again many times.

Work
Susan Brownell has conducted extensive fieldwork in China, primarily in Beijing and Shanghai. In 2007-08 she was a Fulbright Senior Researcher at the Beijing Sport University, conducting research on the Beijing Olympic Games. She also did research at the Olympics in Athens, Rio, and PyeongChang. At the University of Missouri St. Louis, she teaches courses on the body in culture; medicine in culture and history; and China, East Asia, and health and medicine. She is frequently interviewed by major media about Chinese sports and Olympic Games.

In 2015, she won the University of Missouri St. Louis's Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creativity.

Books

 * Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
 * Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader (co-edited with Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, University of California Press, 2002)
 * Liang Lijuan, He Zhenliang and China’s Olympic Dream (translation, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2007)
 * Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
 * The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Race, Sport, and American Imperialism (edited, University of Nebraska Press, 2008, winner of the 2009 Anthology Award from the North American Society for Sport History)
 * ''The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports (co-edited with William Kelly, Yale Council on East Asian Studies Monograph Series, 2011)
 * Special Issue on ″Olympic and World Sport: Making Transnational Society?″ British Journal of Sociology, vol. 63, no. 2 (June 2012) (credited with Richard Giulianotti)
 * From Athens to Beijing: West Meets East in the Olympic Games, vol. I: Sport, the Body and Humanism in Ancient Greece and China (edited, Greekworks, 2013)
 * The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (co-authored with Niko Besnier and Thomas F. Carter, University of California Press, 2017; translated into Spanish, French, and Japanese)