Biography

Dr. Jun Wang holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Doctorate degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Capital University of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China. A committed practitioner of embodied contemplative arts-- including Qigong, Taiji quan, meditation, and guqin music-- Jun embraces a scholar-practitioner approach. Since joining EWP’s core faculty in 2021,   she has taught courses in body-mind healing systems, Daoist philosophy and life cultivation, Buddhism and meditation, and Chinese philosophy and psychology.

Jun’s earlier career focused on interdisciplinary research in integrative and alternative medicine, and teaching in the Holistic Health Studies program at San Francisco State University. Funded by the NIH, she collaborated with UCSF researchers and Asian communities in the Bay Area for ten years to promote health equity and wellbeing. She also held leadership roles at two of the oldest Acupuncture colleges (ACCHS in Oakland and ACTCM in San Francisco), and advocated for the establishment of doctorate degrees in acupuncture schools. From 2015 to 2020, Jun served as co-Chair of the Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM) Research Group, conducting several Asian community-based collaborative health projects.   

Publications

Jun Wang (2011). Cultivating Qi: An Introduction to Chinese Body-Mind Energetics. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books/Random House.  

Jun Wang (2014).  “Chinese Medicine: Health and Balance for the Whole Person.”  Science and Religion: One World, Many Possibilities, Ed. by Johnston and Bauman. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Press, Ch.10: 159-173. 

Jun Wang (2021).  “Dynamic Wisdom of Sky-Dancers in Tantric Buddhism,” in Banerji, D., & McDermott, R. (Eds.). Philo-Sophia: Wisdom Goddess Traditions. Lotus Press. 

Jun Wang, Adam Burke, Tung Nguyen, et al. (2014). “Exploring a Culturally Relevant Model of Cancer Prevention Screening Involving Traditional Healers in a Chinese-American Community,” European Journal of Integrative Medicine. 6(1): 21-28.  

Jun Wang and Judith Farquhar, (2009). “Knowing the Why But Not the How: A Dilemma in Contemporary Chinese Medicine,” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity. 5(1): 57-79. 

Jun Wang (2023). Review of Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine By Karchmer, Eric, New York: Fordham University Press. 2022. pp. 272. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Vol.37 (3).