• current position

  • degrees

  • research fields

  • academic experiences

  • fieldwork

  • Awards and grants

  • contact info






  • Pei-yi Guo



    Associate Research Fellow

    Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica









    current position

    Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (Jan. 2010- date)

    Joint Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica (Jan. 2010- date)





    degrees
    2001, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

    1993, BA, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University





    research fields
    Theory Fields: Historical Anthropology, Theories and Methods in Cultural Anthropology, Landscape and Culture, Exchange and Trading Network

    Area: Oceania, Melanesia, Solomon Islands





    academic experiences


    Joint Associate Professor, College of Hakka Studies, National Chiao Tung University (2010.02 -2011.01)

    Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (2002.8-2010.1)

    Joint Assistant Research Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, RCHSS, Academia Sinica (2008.8~2010.1)

    Joint Assistant Professor, Institute of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, College of Hakka Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2008.8~2009.7)

    Translation Editor, Taiwan Journal of Anthropology (2007-date)       

    Vice Chair of the Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography (2009-2010)

    Adjunt Assistant Professor, Institute of Anthropology & Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing-hua University ( 2005.8 -2006.1)

    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Ethnic Relations and Culture & Department of Indigenous Culture, National Dong-hwa
    University (2004.8-2005.1)

    Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (2002.1~8)




    fieldwork

    Solomon Islands
     1995 summer, 1997 -1998 (13 months),
     short terms in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012

    Vanuatu
     2006 Aug.

    Yap
     2006 Jan.-Feb.


    Paiwan, Taitung, Taiwan
       1992-1993 (2 months)





    awards and grants

    2011.5-12 Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.

    2011-2013 Grant from the ‘Development Plan for World Class Universities and Research Centers of Excellence’, National Taiwan University. Project: ‘Colonial Modernity in Micronesia’. (co-PI with Yuan-chao Tung & Wanyao Chou).

    2010
    Wu Ta-you Award, by the National Science Council, Taiwan

    2010
    Junior Researchers Overseas Study Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica

    2010-2012
    Research Grant by the National Science Council Taiwan. Project: 'Multivocal Disaster and Landscape: Ethnography of Disaster in Langalanga Lagoon, Solomon Islands'

    2009
    Transnational Taiwan, Taiwan’s Transnationality (edited by Hong-ren Wang & Pei-yi Guo) selected as one of the most important works of Academia Sinica, 2009.

    2008.4~6
    Exchange Scholar, British Academy

    2008-2010 Research Grant by the National Science Council Taiwan. Project: ' Transformations of Regional Trades in Colonial Melanesia: A Comparative Perspective .'

    2006
    Crafts of Fieldwork: Self, Research and the Construction of Knowledge (edited by Pei-yi Guo and Hong-zen Wang)  selected as one of the Top-1 Publications in Taiwan, 2006.

    2005-2008 Research Grant by the National Science Council Taiwan. Project: ' Exchange Networks, Colonial Encounters and the Emergence of ‘the Langalanga’: Population Movement and Grouping along the West Coast of Malaita Island, Solomon Islands (1600-2000 AD) '
    2005-2006 Research project funded by CAPAS (Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies), Academia Sinica. Project: 'Power, Leadership and Colonial History: Rethinking Melanesian Bigman and Power.'
    2003 Research Grant by the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Project: 'Encounter and Entanglement Between Local and State Currencies: Historical Anthropology of Shell Money in the Solomon Islands'.
    1999-2000 Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    1995 NSF Ethnographic Fieldwork Training Grant
    1994-96 Teaching Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh



    contact info
    ¡@langa "at" gate.sinica.edu.tw
    ¡@(O) 02-2652-3481
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    ¡@R2719, Institute of Ethnology [74] Academia Sinica Taipei 11529 TAIWAN

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