Ruitong Li

Ruitong Li is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Fudan University, China. His research interests lie in cultural sociology, with a particular focus on codes, the material representation of meaning, and narratives and memory in cultural trauma. Additionally, he is interested in topics related to risk and disaster, science and technology studies (STS), and ethnographic methods. In his PhD dissertation, “Disaster and Routine: The Scientific Practice and Meaning-Making of Earthquake Early Warning Technology,” he employs laboratory ethnography to analyze how disaster is interpreted through technological processes and the normalization of disaster. (Visiting Assistant In Research - 2025)