My Biography
Timothy Y. Loh is a sociocultural anthropologist and a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University, where he is also a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology. Bringing together medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and science and technology studies, his ethnographic research investigates sociality, language, and religion in deaf and signing worlds spanning Jordan, Singapore, and the United States. His winning paper is part of a new project on the disenfranchisement of sign language and deaf people in ostensibly multilingual and multicultural Singapore. He holds a PhD and an SM in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society from MIT, and a BS in Foreign Service and MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University.