Lisa M. Hoffman is a Professor in the School of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. She received her BA from Yale (Philosophy, 1988), her MA from UW’s Jackson School of International Studies (China Regional Studies, 1992), and her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley (2000). Her scholarship has focused on questions of power, governing, and social change, with a particular interest in subjectivity and its intersections with spatiality. Hoffman has researched urban professionals, rural urbanization, regimes of green urbanisms, and volunteerism in urban China, and has lived in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Her current research project engages science and technology studies (STS) and considers how genetics and precision health are shaping subjectivity and contemporary practices of living.