Jinting Wu, Ph.D.

Community Wellbeing

Dr. Jinting Wu is an Associate Professor of Educational Culture, Policy, and Society at the University at Buffalo and an educational anthropologist whose work centers on marginalized communities across cultural and national contexts. Trained in educational policy studies, curriculum and instruction, and international development education, her research employs ethnographic methods to examine how schooling, policy, and social structures shape the lived experiences of rural populations, ethnic minorities, immigrants, and children with disabilities amid rapid economic, political, and global change.

Her scholarship critically explores education as both a site of structural vulnerability and a space for negotiation, resilience, and transformation. Before joining the University at Buffalo, Dr. Wu served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau and as a postdoctoral fellow in educational sciences at the University of Luxembourg, contributing a strong comparative and international perspective to her work.

Beyond academia, Dr. Wu is deeply engaged in community wellbeing and volunteer service. She is a certified coherence trainer with the Institute of HeartMath and a meditation instructor with the Heartfulness Institute, with nearly a decade of experience teaching science-based wellbeing and healing practices to educators, professionals, and community groups. She is committed to bridging rigorous academic inquiry with holistic, transformative practices to support empowerment, healing, and social connection across diverse communities.