Biography
Di previously worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London (2016-2020), following his PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics.
His doctoral research was on the everyday life of Chinese migrants in Zambia, particularly looking at issues of labour disputes, cross-cultural communication and moral interaction, and the process of community building. His thesis won the LSE Monograph Competition, and the manuscript, Affective Encounters, was published by Bloomsbury as part of the LSE Monograph on Social Anthropology Series. Following his doctoral research, Di Wu is currently developing a new project on the spread of Chinese Humanistic Buddhism in Southern Africa.
He was a Departmental Lecturer in Migration Studies at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnoography (SAME) and COMPAS until 2024.
