Jui-Hsin Cheng

Profile

• Resume

  • 2014-2017 B.A. Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • 2017-2020 M.A. Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Master’s thesis: The Shift in Care Ethics: How Care Management Influence the Practice and Agency of Family Caregivers
  • 2020-2022 Research Assistant, Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
    Conducting the research project “Silent Pregnancy Loss: Gendered Embodiment of Miscarriage and Its Entanglement with Medical and Social Practice” funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
  • 2022-2025 MA Anthropology, Leipzig University, Germany
    Master’s thesis: Cooking up “German Dreams”: Taiwanese Students’ Self-care, Identities, and Agencies between Taiwan and Germany.
  • 2022-2025 Student Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
  • From 2025 PhD student in European Anthropology and Cultural Studies
    Dissertation project: “Green Vitality” from Germany to Taiwan: Exploring the cross-cultural transplantation of naturopathy and healing practices in the Healing Garden of St. Hildegard von Bingen. (This research was funded by the Landesgraduiertenstipendien 2025-2028)
• Research Interests

  • Ethnographic Methods
  • Sensory Ethnography
  • Medical Anthropology (especially folk and religious medicine)
  • Religious Anthropology
  • Body Anthropology (especially care and healing practice)
  • Science, Technology and Society (STS)
  • Gender Studies
• Publications

  Konferenzvorträge

  • Cheng, Jui-Hsin (2025) “Green Vitality” from Germany to Taiwan: Exploring the cross-cultural transplantation of naturopathy and healing practices. 16th-19th September 2025, Medical Anthropology Europe Conference. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Cheng, Jui-Hsin (2025) A Sociological Imagination of “Green Vitality”: The Cross-Cultural Transplantation of Hildegard of Bingen’s Naturopathy in Taiwan, Green Care Practices, and the Politics of the Senses (「綠色生命力」的社會學想像：台灣聖賀德佳自然療法的跨文化移植、綠色照護實作與感官政治). At Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Conference. 15th-16th November 2025, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.