Center Director
EducationPh.D. Anthropology
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA)
Sequoyah Fellow, Royster Society of Fellows
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities
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Research InterestsPowell joined the TMU faculty in August 2023, following twelve years as faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University (North Carolina, USA), where she designed and directed a Bachelor’s degree program in Social Practice & Sustainability and affiliated with the University’s Research Center for Environment, Energy, and Economics.
Powell’s longstanding research has been in partnership with colleagues in the Navajo (Diné) Nation in the American Southwest (2003–present), focusing on intersections of environmental justice, ecological health humanities, energy extraction, and tribal sovereignty. Her ethnographic monograph, Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (Duke Press, 2018), shares this work. She has also published in the Journal of Political Ecology; Collaborative Anthropologies; Anthropological Quarterly; Environment & Society; and the Native American Indigenous Studies Journal, as well as contributed numerous chapters to environmental anthropology edited volumes.
With faculty colleagues at Appalachian State, she co-founded the Environmental Justice “Co-Lab,” a research and teaching collaborative aligned with rural, community partners addressing climate change, extractivism, and industrialized agriculture. Powell brings the Co-Lab model to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at TMU to expand transnational collaborative and convergent, qualitative research on issues of land rights, toxicity, transition, energy infrastructure, and the affective and sensorial politics of environmental harm, health, and wellbeing.
In the past decade, her research has been supported by Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities; the National Science Foundation (US); the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; the Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics at Appalachian State University; and, since 2021, with three awards from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council.
Her current project, “Energy Ecologies,” is a collaboration with scholars in Indigenous environmental studies, grounded in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan. Powell also serves internationally as Council Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and as Board Member of the Peace Development Fund.
She lives in Hualien, with her partner and three children.
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Administrative Staff
EducationB.A., Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication, National Dong Hwa University
M.A., Graduate Institute of Architecture and Cultural Heritage, Taipei National University of the Arts
Academic positionsResearch InterestsEthnographic Research; Indigenous Cultural Heritage; Critical Heritage Studies; Indigenous Geography; Ethnomusicology; Contemporary Indigenous Art; Musical bow Practice
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EducationB.A. ,Indigenous Language and Communication, National Dong Hwa University
Academic positionsDuring university, Anly actively engaged in projects related to culture, community, and sustainability. She served as a project coordinator and video producer for initiatives funded by the Ministry of Education, local cultural bureaus, and corporate foundations. Her work addressed topics such as energy transition, Indigenous community development, cultural education, and community-based visual storytelling. Through teamwork and hands-on execution, she developed strong skills in project planning, on-site coordination, and cross-sector collaboration.
Anly also interned at Citizen of the Earth, Taiwan—where she was responsible for shooting and editing advocacy videos. Additionally, she worked as a student assistant in the documentation team at the university’s Arts Center, where she participated in the documentation of cultural events and the organization of visual archives. Her long-standing interests in ethnicity, land, and the environment continue to drive her use of visual media as a tool for documentation and activism.
Research InterestsEthnic cultures and environmental issues; youth participation in community and local visual storytelling; arts administration and event documentation; visual narratives and issue-based communication; multimedia editing and creative production.
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Researcher
EducationPh.D. 2016 Joint Degree in Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
M.A. Globalization Studies, McMaster University
BA (Honors) English Literature, Simon Fraser University
Academic positionsResearch InterestsEnvironmental Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Political Ecology, Urban Studies, Infrastructure, China, Transnationalism, Global China, Climate Change, Waste, Disaster.
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Researcher
EducationSchool of Medicine, National Taiwan University, MD
Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University, MSc
School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, PhD
Academic positions Research InterestsGeneral Neurosurgery, Intensive Care Medicine, Air Medical Transport, Injury Prevention, Public Health
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