Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University
His research focuses on the political organizing of LGBT groups in Yunnan, China as they cooperate with the local government to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include Sociology of Gender; Medical Anthropology; China Studies; and NGO Studies.
Wortham has notable publications in the journals of Medical Anthropology, Journal of Contemporary China and Asian Studies Review. He is currently working on his book, Queer Collusion: HIV Quotas and LGBT Politics in Yunnan, China. He is also the Secretary of the Association of Queer Anthropology.
Wortham has a B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Texas Austin (2012) and an M.A. (2018) and Ph.D. (2021) in Applied Anthropology from Columbia University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University Shanghai (2022-2024) and the University of Nottingham Ningbo (2021) and taught at Kunming University of Science and Technology (2021-2022). Before beginning his Ph.D. he was a fellow with Teach for China (2013-2015).