Wen Zhou is an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology. She aims to understand what it means to be a human and is interested in the moral status ascribed to the species. Her current projects focus on dehumanization and its developmental origins. Her work also involves research on social hierarchy, human-animal relations and conservation, deploying an approach drawn from social and developmental psychology. Zhou joined the faculty of Duke Kunshan University in 2022 after obtaining her Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology from Duke University.