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Jennifer Liu

Jennifer Liu

Jennifer Liu, Assistant Professor, received her PhD in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. A cultural anthropologist, she specializes in Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies with interests in emergent biotechnologies, cross-cultural bioethics, science governance and policy, and health disparities.  She has conducted ethnographic work in various sites including San Francisco and Taiwan.

Contact Information

Dr. Liu's office is PAS 2009 and her phone number is (519) 888-4567, ext. 33044.  Her email is ja2liu@uwaterloo.ca. 

The following represent some of Dr. Liu's publications

In Press - Book Review of European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology, Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar, eds., Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. Feminist Theory 13(1).

In Press - Aboriginal Fractions: enumerating identity in Taiwan.  Theme issue, "Enumeration, Identity and Health", Medical Anthropology. 

2011 - Biological scarcity: looking beyond regulatory exteriors in Taiwan.  Theme issue, "Stem Cell Research in Asia: Looking Beyond Regulatory Exteriors (Part 2)", New Genetics and Society, 30(3): 253-265.

2011 - Review of Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialtiies, and Modernities.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly.  25(1):137-139.

2010 - "Making Taiwanese (stem cells): identity, genetics, and purity." In Asian Biotechnology: Ethics and Communities of Fate. Aihwa Ong and Nancy Chen, eds.  Pp. 239-262.  Durham: Duke University Press.