Title: Assistant Professor Primary
Appointment: Institute of Sociology
Tel: +886-3-5715131 ext. 34537
Email: tsengpc@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Research Areas: Medical Sociology; Science, Technology and Society; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global Ethnography

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Sociology, National Tsing Hua University
B.A., Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University

Professional Experiences

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica

Self-Introduction

My research interests lie at the intersection of power, difference/boundary, materiality, and scale. Recently I investigate how social structural conditions affect health disparities, as well as how shifting global and state health projects and emerging technoscience shape biopolitical subjectivities. I pay particular attention to the co-shaping of difference and politics in those processes.

Teachings

Institute of Sociology

• Medical Sociology
• Sociology of Gender
• Sociology of the Body
• Community Fieldwork and Ethnography Writing (Co-taught with Professor Jui-Hua Chen)

Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Classical Sociological Theory
• Social Research Methods (I)
• More-than-Human Sociology
• Emotions, Power and Society Globalization and Society

Publications

Journal Articles

• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2024. “Budgets and Biologicals: The Bio-economization of HIV Governance.” The Sociological Review 72(6): 1177-1192.
• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2021. “Subordinated Agency: Negotiating the Biomedicalisation of Masculinity among Gay Men Living with HIV.” Sociology of Health & Illness 43(6): 1486-1500.
• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2021. “Fear of Disconnecting: Global Health Imaginations and the Transformations of the Taiwanese State.” New Global Studies 15(2-3): 145-163.
• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2020. “Framing the Material Global: The Grounded Politics of HIV Testing Scale-Up.” New Global Studies 14(3): 353-371.
• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2020. “Governing AIDS, Rescaling the Social: A Global Ethnography Perspective.” Taiwanese Sociology 40: 89-110.
• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2013. “Beyond Biomedical and Social Models: An Actor-Network Analysis of the Construction of Beep-Ball Players' Techniques.” Taiwanese Journal for Science, Technology and Medicine 17: 187-232.

Book Chapters

• Tseng, Po-Chia. 2026. "Attached: The Refashioning of Affective Marginal Citizens in a Biomedical Era." In Feeling Taiwan: Emotions in Everyday Politics, Social Movements, and Research, edited By Po-Han Lee, Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe, and Yu-chin Tseng. Routledge.
• Huang, Hwa-Yen, and Po-Chia Tseng. 2024. “Chronic Illness.” Pp. 118-131 in Encyclopedia of Adolescence (Second Edition), edited by Wendy Troop-Gordon and Enrique Neblett. Academic Press.

Book Reviews

• The Journey of Care. Book Review. Mapping the Landscapes of Care: Displacing, Reassembling and Imagining Chronic Disease Practices in Taiwan. By Wen-Yuan Lin. Taipei: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. 2023.
• Toward Global Sexual Diversity. Book Review. Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. By Travis S. K. Kong. Duke University Press. 2023.

Services

Deputy Secretary-General of the Taiwan Society for Disability Studies

Honors & Awards

2024. NTHU New Faculty Research Award
2021. Research Prize (Honorable Mention), Humanities Research Institute, UIUC
2020. Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2020. Beslow Graduate Paper Award, Department of Sociology, UIUC
2020. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC
2019. Dissertation Fellowship for ROC Students Abroad, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
2018. Bastian Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UIUC
2012. Fellowship for Study Abroad Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2012. Wang Yuh-Fong Memorial Award, Taiwan Science, Technology and Society Association
2011. Science, Technology and Society Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship, NTHU
2010. Fieldwork Scholarship, Institute of Sociology, NTHU 2009. Sung Kao-Jung Memorial Scholarship, Institute of Sociology, NTHU