New Advisory Board Member: Scott Simon, PhD


We express our gratitude to Professor Scott Simon for being an Advisory Board Member of ATAYAL/Indigenous Bridges. He provides the ATAYAL organization an excellent academic perspective on indigenous people of Taiwan.

Mr. Simon is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Co-Chair of the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies. He has lived in Taiwan for 10 years, mostly for research purposes, and is author of three books on Taiwan. Since 2004, he has been doing research with Seediq and Truku people. He is now working on a new book about indigenous lifeworlds in Taiwan.

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