She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine. She was a recipient of a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Hong Kong in 2010-2011. Dr. Martin is the author of Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries (2016) published by Oxford University Press. She specializes in media anthropology, and has published on media production, performance, work, globalization, and popular culture. Selected publications on media production in Hong Kong include articles in Visual Anthropology Review and Critical Studies in Media Communication (Outstanding Paper Award, Academy of Hong Kong Studies, 2017). She has published on global iconicity in Society and the Gesamtkunstwerk in popular culture in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. New projects include examining U.S. state power through Hollywood-China encounters.