Dr. Kun-hui Ku teaches at the Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, and is the convener for the newly established Center for World Austronesia and Indigenous Peoples at NTHU and the convenor of the undergraduate interdisciplinary program on Austronesian Studies.
Dr. Ku was educated in Taiwan (BA in Philosophy at NTU), Canada (MA in Symbolic Anthropology at Western Ontario) and the UK (PhD in Social anthropology at Cambridge). She specialized in Austronesian Studies, especially indigenous peoples of Taiwan; of late she also extends her fieldwork into Southeast Asia. Her latest publications include 2016 “Austronesian Personal Naming Systems,” Pacific Studies 39 (1-2), co-edited with Lamont Linstrom and an edited volume on Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Austronesia/Oceania (under review).
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