The Expert is until recently a Professor of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Huang’s specialty includes religion, gender, and migration. She has done fieldwork in Taiwan, Malaysia, the United States, and shorter periods of research in Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, and China. The Expert has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, Ethnology, Positions, Nova Religio, the Eastern Buddhist, and the European Journal for East Asian Studies. She is the author of Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009) and a co-author of Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies (co-authored with Weller and Wu)(Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Formerly Professor of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
LGBTQ, Child abuse, Sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence/domestic violence, forced marriage, forced conscription/refoulement, ex-combatant reintegration, likelihood of homelessness or destitution, Ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution, Torture/Risk of political persecution/Risk from state actors, Risk from non-state actors
• Broad ethnographic field research and deep expertise in in-person interviewing a wide range of immigrants from different Asian countries of origin and in a variety of host countries.
• In-depth understanding of political persecution and societal stigma or discrimination and risk of imprisonment based on native experience in Taiwan and fieldwork with minorities in Malaysia, Singapore, China, and Taiwan.
• Significant expertise in identifying and understanding gender-based violence (including forced marriage) and human trafficking gained through fieldwork in Vietnam.
C. Julia Huang, Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009)
Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, and Keping Wu, with Lizhu Fan. Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2017)