Changran Liu

Changran Liu is a Master of Environmental Management at Yale School of the Environment. His research interests include smallholder societies in China and Southeast Asia, human-nonhuman biopolitics, environmental and media anthropology, political ecology, and social theory. His current interdisciplinary research enquires into the marketization of Tibetan incense and its impact on local sociocultural relations and the human-nature nexus in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. He is also interested in the sociocultural and environmental legacies of the cane-sugar industry in post-reform Southeastern Chinese global communities, especially the legacies on mobility, folk beliefs and rituals, and local articulations of nature.

 

Holding a B.A. with Distinction in Environmental Science from Tongji University, Changran integrates qualitative and quantitative methods to study agrarian transitions while critically reflecting on the implications of environmental science, technologies, and management models. During his undergraduate studies, he organized an exchange program to UNEP’s Asia and the Pacific Office in Bangkok, and his thesis in environmental chemistry was recognized as the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Tongji University. In addition to his academic pursuits, his professional experience in ESG consulting further informs his commitment to a sustainable and just transition for agrarian futures.