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Junbin Tan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University specializing in political anthropology with a regional focus on East Asia. His research examines aging populations, ritual practices, and political futures in Kinmen, Taiwan, particularly through the lens of intergenerational healing and memorialization. He is currently converting his doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript titled Familiar Futures: A Reparative Ethnography of Kinmen’s Postwar Generation, exploring how elderly Kinmen residents articulate political visions through religious rituals amid geopolitical tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
His recent work includes studies on NYC anesthesiologists’ frontline experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and ethical dilemmas in witnessing injustice during crises. He also engages in public anthropology through media projects, including a podcast interview on 'How Should We Think About Death?' with Jack Fong for Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion.
Tan’s next research project, Political Afterlives: Kinmen’s War Dead and Memorial Futures at the Taiwan Strait, investigates the worship of communist war dead, rehistoricization of the 1949 Battle of Guningtou, and intergenerational reconciliation. His academic background includes a PhD from Princeton University.
