Chia-Ling Wu

Chia-Ling Wu currently serves as the Chair and Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. Her research specialization includes science, technology and society (STS), medical sociology, and gender studies. In February 2023, she published Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction with Berghahn Books. Her recent publications and research projects encompass various topics, including the global-local politics of multiple embryo transfer, public financing of IVF in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, social exclusion of single women and gender minorities in assisted reproductive technology regulation, and the rebuilding of midwifery.

Chia-Ling Wu has served as editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS), Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Taiwanese Sociology. She co-founded Birth Reform Alliance in Taiwan, an NGO dedicated to improving reproductive care in the country.

Education

1991-1997       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. in Sociology, Minor in Women’s Studies)

Academic Appointments

August, 2023—Present           Chair
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University

August, 2014—Present          Professor
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University

August, 2014—Present           Adjunct Professor
Department of Medical Education & Bioethics, National Taiwan University College of Medicine

August, 2002—July, 2014      Associate Professor

August, 1997—July, 2002     Assistant Professor

Professional Services (selected)

Editor-in-chief of Taiwanese Sociology (2022-2023)

Editor-in-chief of Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies (Aug. 2016-July 2018)

Editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (2013-2015)

Panel member of European Research Council Advanced Grant Peer Review Panels (2014, 2016)

Advisory Board of Social Science and Medicine (2014-Present)

Advisory Board of Social Science and Medicine, Qualitative Research in Health (2021-Present)

Advisory Board of Sociology and Health and illness (2008-2018)

Research Grants (selected)

2022-2024       Research Grant from Taiwan Science and Technology Council, project titled “Rebuilding Midwifery Model: Social Infrastructure, Professional Demarcation, and Welfare State”

2020-2022       Research Grant from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, project tilted “The Making of Statistics on Reproduction and Its Gendered Innovation”

2019-2021       Research Grant from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, project tilted “Choreographing Success Rates: Expectation of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Japan and Taiwan” 2017-2019       Research Grant from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, project tilted “Pronatalism, Stratified Reproduction and Reproductive Technology Governance”

Selected Publications

Wu, Chia-Ling. 2023. Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction. New York: Berghahn Books. (Full text: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WuMaking)

Wu, Chia-Ling and Chuan Yang. 2022. “Narrowing Women and Invisiblizing Men? Gendered Fertility Statistics in Taiwan.” Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies 51: 53-107. (in Chinese) (Full text: https://jwgs.psc.ntu.edu.tw/article/%E7%AA%84%E5%8C%96%E5%A5%B3%E6%80%A7%E3%80%81%E9%9A%B1%E5%BD%A2%E7%94%B7%E6%80%A7%EF%BC%9F%E6%80%A7%E5%88%A5%E5%8C%96%E7%9A%84%E5%9C%8B%E5%AE%B6%E7%94%9F%E8%82%B2%E7%B5%B1%E8%A8%88/)

Wu, Chia-Ling, Yu-Ling Huang, Jung-ok Ha, Wei-hong Chen, and Yu-hsiang Huang. 2021. “Equal Access, Risk Prevention, or Pronatalism? Public Financing on In Vitro Fertilization in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.” Taiwan Democracy Quarterly 17(4): 49-104. (in Chinese)

Wu, Chia-Ling, Jung-Ok Ha and Azumi Tsuge. 2020. “Data Reporting as Care Infrastructure: Assembling ART Registries in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) 14(1): 35-59. (Full text: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1215/18752160-8233676)

Yu-Ling Huang and Chia-Ling Wu. 2018. “New Feminist Biopolitics in Ultra-low-fertility East Asia.” Pp.125-144 in Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations, edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

Wu, Chia-Ling. 2017. From Single Motherhood to Queer Reproduction: Access Politics of Assisted Conception in Taiwan. Pp. 92-114 In Gender and Health in East Asia, eds. Angela Leung and Izumi Nakayama. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Wu, Chia-Ling, Wenmay rei, Chung-Yeh Deng, and Hsin-Yi Hsieh. 2017. National Registries and Health Surveillance of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: a Comparative Study. Taiwan Journal of Public Health 36(1): 6-20. (in Chinese) (Full text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYcty1KGXu0RUFBSE81bUMwSHM/view?resourcekey=0-gIOGYWMa9yyL473-49Etug)

Wu, Chia-Ling. 2015. Erecting taəta in the front of Permanent House: Architectural Design

and Social Reform for the Post-Disaster Reconstruction. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine 20:9-73.(in Chinese) (Full text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYcty1KGXu0ZGRoRFVnalpFUHc/view?resourcekey=0-1r0HnNEIeO6A3ie1sKElnw)

Wu, Chia-Ling. 2012. IVF Policy and Global/Local Politics: The Making of Multiple-Embryo Transfer Regulation in Taiwan. Social Science & Medicine 75(4): 725-732. (Full text: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612003486)

Wu, Chia-Ling. 2012. “Choreographing Risk: Multiple Sociotechnical Networks of Multiple Pregnancy.” Taiwanese Sociology 22：111-156. (In Chinese) (Full text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYcty1KGXu0cnc0elMxWkJ6VEU/view?resourcekey=0-rEmO9RLoZvsZQP-MTaLFFQ)

Wu, Chia-Ling. 2011. “Managing Multiple Masculinities in Donor Insemination: Doctors Configuring Infertile Men and Sperm Donors in Taiwan.” Sociology of Health and Illness 33 (1) 96-113.  (Full text: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01274.x)

Chung-Yeh, Deng and Chia-Ling Wu*. 2010. “An Innovative Participatory Method for Newly Democratic Societies: The ‘Civic Groups Forum’ on National Health Insurance Reform in Taiwan.” Social Science & Medicine 70(6):896-903. (*correspondence author) (Full text: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795360900762X)