Eric S. Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology based at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada. A linguistic anthropologist, he conducts research on the role of English in contemporary China. His book The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China was published in 2021 by Cornell University Press. He has published significant work on modernity, language, and race in China while also contributing regularly to public anthropology through the journal Anthropology Now.