fulbright Taiwan online journal

fulbright Taiwan online journal

Author: Sam Pack

Picture of Sam Pack
Dr. Sam Pack is the grateful recipient of a Fulbright teaching award. A Professor of Anthropology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he spent this academic year in the College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien. His research interests address the relationship between media and culture and specifically focus on an anthropological approach to the production and reception of television, film, photographs, and new media. He has authored almost fifty articles published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes as well as two book manuscripts and three ethnographic films. Dr. Pack teaches a wide variety of courses in cultural anthropology, visual anthropology, narrative history, Native American Studies, and Asian Studies.

Continuity in/and Change in Taiwan

“Good morning, misty mountains!” exclaimed my 5-year-old son as we walked to his kindergarten soon after our arrival in Hualien. Since then, that greeting has become part of our morning ritual. His middle name,

Read More »

Research & Reflections

fulbright taiwan online journal