Long Citation
Ellen R. Judd is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work on women in modern rural China has made path breaking contributions to the anthropology of societies in post-socialist transition and on gender and kinship. Her innovative field research in China for over thirty years has allowed her to create a distinctive body of scholarship in the study of political economy, gender and cultural production. Her insights on how to conceptualize social processes in periods of profound disjuncture have had wide international influence, and much of it has been translated and published in China.

Short Citation
Ellen R. Judd is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work on women in modern rural China has made path breaking contributions to the anthropology of societies in post-socialist transition and on gender and kinship. Her innovative field research in China has allowed her to create a distinctive body of scholarship in the study of political economy, gender and cultural production and her insights have had wide international influence.