En-Chieh Chao is a cultural anthropologist holding her Ph.D. from Boston University, currently Professor of Sociology Department at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Her research interests focus on the intersections between religion, gender, race, as well as social studies of science and technology. Her book Entangled Pieties: Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Socialities in Java, Indonesia was released from Palgrave Macmillan in August 2017. More recently, Chao undertakes a project to study Islam with science, technology and society in the Indo-Malay world. She explores the overlooked multi-species sciences of halalness－the dynamics of Islamic ritual purity in modern life involving animal physiology, molecular biology, and oil chemistry－to expose the social contingencies that gave birth to certain scientific practices and religious understandings in the late 20th and 21st centuries. Her peer-reviewed articles (written either in English or Chinese) investigate issues including: the cultural history of inter-religious lives in Java; Islamophobia and cyber-racism in the US; young female hijab designers' social influence in Indonesia ; and the relationship between global Islamic jurisprudence, animal welfare, the modern meat industry , as well as laboratory science.
我是一個文化人類學者，研究興趣在於宗教、性別、種族與現代性的多重糾葛，區域專長是東南亞，其次為廣泛的伊斯蘭世界。2017年夏我出版了我的跨宗教民族誌， Entangled Pieties: Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Socialities in Java, Indonesia ，詳細探討了印尼爪哇一個山城中穆斯林+基督徒混居社群的跨宗教日常生活，尤其是性別化的社會關係。 這幾年我都在從事伊斯蘭與實驗室相關的STS研究，重點尤其放在印尼馬來半島上，雖然也不時延伸到紐澳與歐美去。因為投入於清真驗證科學化這個新的研究主題，我開始注意到多物種在人類知識中的重要角色，也因此碰觸到動物生理學，分子生物學，藥學等等清真相關的實驗，並以人類學的角度來看待這些科學的論述與發展。
2019 台灣科技與社會研究學會王玉豐先生年輕學者論文獎 Taiwanese Association of Science, Technology and Society Award
2013 台灣東南亞學會2013年度優秀博碩士論文獎第一名 Taiwan Association of Southeast Asian Studies Best Doctoral Dissertation
2011-2012 Andrew. W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships （USA）
2009-2010 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grants （USA）
2009-2011 教育部留學獎學金 （Taiwan）
2008-2009 Boston University Teaching Fellowship（USA）
2007-2008 Earhart Fellowship （USA）
2006-2007 Boston University Presidential Fellowship （USA）
英文 English （流利 professional ）
印尼語 Indonesian （流利 professional, COTIM and SEASSI Certificate）
爪哇語 Javanese （基礎 elementary, 印尼Sebelas Maret大學文學系證書）
中文 Chinese Mandarin （母語 native speaker ）
台語 Taiwanese （母語 native speaker）
法文 French （基礎閱讀 basic reading ）
2019 short-term fieldwork 馬來西亞
2017 short-term fieldwork 印尼中爪哇日惹市（Yogyakarta）
2015 short-term fieldwork 印尼中爪哇日惹市（Yogyakarta）、西爪哇茂物（Bogor）
2014 40-day fieldwork 印尼中爪哇日惹市（Yogyakarta）
2013 short-term fieldwork 印尼中爪哇日惹市（Yogyakarta, Salatiga）
2012 1-month fieldwork 印尼中爪哇日惹市與沙拉迪加市（Yogyakarta, Salatiga）
2009-2010 12-month fieldwork 印尼中爪哇沙拉迪加市一年田野 （Salatiga）
2008 2-month fieldwork 印尼中爪哇沙拉迪加市（Salatiga）