Yueh-Chou Ho

Yueh-Chou Ho (Tuyuq Rabay) is a member of the Truku Indigenous community in Taiwan. He is presently pursuing a doctoral degree in Anthropology and Sociology, funded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, with the Scholarship particularly for Indigenous Cultural Heritage. 

Beginning in September 2025, he holds a Doctoral Candidates Fellowship at the Institute of Ethnology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Prior to joining SOAS, Tuyuq worked as a research assistant at the Indigenous Curriculum Department Centre at National Tsing Hua University.

Between 2019 and 2021, he collaborated with Indigenous public-funded primary schools—particularly Atayal schools—on developing culturally grounded curricula aimed at preserving and promoting Indigenous heritage. This experience inspired his doctoral research, which examines how Atayal schoolchildren become “Indigenous educated person” through indigenous curricula, academic-oriented lessons, and kin caring networks within their villages. From 2023 to 2024, Tuyuq conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Atayal Experimental Schools, engaging closely with Atayal parents, teachers, elders, and afterschool tutors, to understand how the successful indigenous subject is envisioned, cultivated, and nurtured in contemporary multicultural Taiwan.

As a Truku person with a deep personal connection to his cultural heritage, Tuyuq adopts an ethnographic and reflective approach to broaden understandings of Indigenous education within the context of settler colonial practices in Taiwan.

• Indigeneity
• Identity
• Educational Ethnography
• Root-Seeking Tourism and Identity-Making
• Decolonisation
• Indigenous Methodologies
• Taiwan Studies
• Mental Health
• Psychological Anthropology