Po-chia Tseng
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
Research Interests:
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, 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
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Institute of Sociology
- Medical Sociology
- Sociology of Gender
- Sociology of the Body
- Community Fieldwork and Ethnography Writing (Co-taught with Professor Jui-Hua Chen)
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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
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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.
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Book Chapters
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.
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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