Title: Assistant Professor
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

Themes of my research include difference, classification, boundary making, power, resistance, materiality, scale, and the South. Recently I investigate how social structural conditions affect health disparities, as well as how shifting global and state health projects, civil society collective actions, and emerging technoscience configure difference and biopolitical subjectivities.

Publications

Journal Articles (selected)

• 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.

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

School of Medicine

• Medical Professionalism (II) – Humanities and Ethics (co-taught)

Services (selected)

• Director, Gender Studies Program, Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTHU (Aug 2025 - present)
• Deputy Secretary-General, Taiwan Society for Disability Studies (Dec 2022 - present)
• Member, Editorial Board, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS) (Jan 2026 - present)

Honors & Awards (selected)

• 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