Tania Murray Li is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto who is known for her work on labour, capitalism, development, politics and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia.
After post-Doctoral research on Indonesia, Li began teaching at Dalhousie University in 1992, and in 2002 was appointed professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
From 1986 until 1989 Li worked on an environmental management project at Dalhousie University, and in a 2017 interview she described how the goals of "knowledge transfer and institution-building" made her uncomfortable.
[3] Subsequently she worked on issues within Indonesia, particularly on the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state.
[13] In 2019 she was named a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute,[14] and in 2022 she received the Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development (Denmark).