Nicole Constable (Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley, 1989) is Professor of Anthropology, UCIS Research Professor, and core faculty member in Asian Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her past research examined Hakka Chinese identity and Chinese Christianity. Her current research focuses on Chinese and Filipino transnational families, and marriage and divorce in relation to migration, globalization and concepts of modernity. She is currently working on a textbook (with Nancy Abelmann and Lynne Nakano) on gender in East Asia. Her publications include:

• Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits: A Hakka Community in Hong Kong (University of California Press, 1994)
• Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers (Cornell University Press, 1997)
• Romance on a Global Stage: Penpals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order Marriages" (University of California Press, 2003)
• Editor: Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad (University of Washington Press, 1996)
• Editor: Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

Photo Gallery
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Tibetan prayer wheels.

Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India, July 2002.

Current research in progress on contemporary Chinese bridal portraits.

Bridal studio, Beijing, China, 2002.

A jeepney.

Cebu, Philippines, 2000.

Global Village, an Internet cafe. Cebu, Philippines, 2000. One site for my research on correspondence marriages.

See Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography and 'Mail Order" Marriages (U. California Press, 2003) for further detail.