She received her PhD from the University of Technology, Sydney, in International Studies. Beyond examining alternative forms of celebrity, Johanna’s research interests include the impacts of race and ethnicity on media and public health campaigns, welfare in China, and China’s plasma economies. She is the author of HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined Immunity through Racialized Disease (2011). Johanna is a Core Researcher of the Research Network on Celebrity and North–South Relations.