Academic Writing

Journal Articles

  • 2025. (with Eben Kirksey) “Inscrutable Futures: Biotechnology, Architecture, and Planetary Ecology in Late Industrial China.” BioSocieties 20(1): 73-96.

  • 2024. (with Linda M. Callejas, Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein and Elena Peeples) "Publics, anthropologies, and public anthropologies." American Anthropologist 126(1): 149-152.

  • 2021. "The Picture as a Moving Image: Visual Politics in Contemporary China." Visual Anthropology Review 37(1): 77-99.

Book Reviews

  • 2022. "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China by Elsa L. Fan." Anthropological Theory 95(3): 715-718.

  • 2020. "Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, by Deborah Thomas.” Transforming Anthropology 28(2): 184-185.

  • 2020. “Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi.” China Review International 27(1): 71-75.

Public-Facing Writing and Media

  • 2025. “Group Photos (hezhao) and the Depoliticization of Indigeneity in Taiwan.” Taiwan Insight, July 18.

  • 2025. Podcast Recording, “The Sovereignty of Wearables” (see below). Platypod, July 15.

  • 2025. “The Sovereignty of Wearables: Indigenous Health and Digital Colonialism in Taiwan.” Platypus: The CASTAC Blog (The Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing), July 15.

  • 2024. (with Chao-Kai Huang) “Doing Taiwanese Indigenous Studies in North America: Politics of the Frontier.” Taiwan Insight, September 18.

  • 2023. “Multispecies Anthropology.” American Anthropologist, Virtual Issue.

  • 2023.  “Shezidao (社子島) as a Limit Case for Democracy in Taiwan?  A Conversation with Jeffrey Hou.” New Bloom Magazine, April 17.

  • 2023. “The Limits of ‘Ecological Development’: Making Lifeworlds Visible on Taipei’s Shezidao.” Taiwan Insight, May 5.

  • 2023. “Cultures of Diversity and Inclusion: Anthropological Disruptions.” American Ethnologist website, Curated Collection.

  • 2023.  “Labors of g0v: Rethinking work from the perspective of data activists.” Taiwan Insight (special series on open-source civic data community g0v, curated by Sam Robbins), October 11.

  • 2022. “Pandemic Dwelling.” Visualizing the Virus, Curated Research Cluster. Contributors: Alex Blanchette and Didier Fassin.

  • 2019.  “A Space for Laughter in Contemporary China.” Anthropology News, article series “An Anthropology of Ethics in East Asia.” October 10. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1277.

  • 2018. (with Ben Bieser) “Pneumatoliberalism: A Conversation with Maria José de Abreu.” Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism 8, Spring 2018.