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Jennifer Hsieh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Michigan and 2019 LSA Collegiate Fellow (Anthropology)
Education/Degree:
1 Anthropology (Stanford University)
About
Dr. Hsieh is an assistant professor of anthropology at University of Michigan. Her current book project is a study of the scientific, bureaucratic, and audiovisual practices underlying the production of environmental noise from early twentieth-century Taiwan to the present. She received her PhD in anthropology from Stanford and has previously held research fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and University of Amsterdam.
Current Work
Dr. Hsieh examines the standardization of sensory perception by way of institutional practices and technological devices. Her current book project analyzes the sociality of hearing and the production of noise as a material and discursive object in Taiwan's environmental noise control system. Tentatively titled, From Festival to Decibel: Making Noise in Urban Taiwan, the book analyzes the way residents, policy makers, and environmental inspectors transform the fleeting qualities of sound into the regulatory object of noise. It further explores how the practices of noise inspections, decibel measurements, and government petitioning tie together personal acts of hearing and listening with geopolitical concerns of citizenship and belonging.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Environment, Governance, senses, subjectivity, technology