PRINCETON, NJ | UNITED STATES

LOH, TIMOTHY Y.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE | LINGUISTICS | SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES

Timothy Y. Loh is an anthropologist of science and technology. He is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University in the United States, where he is also a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology.

Drawing upon medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and the social study of science, his ethnographic research explores sociality, language, and religion in deaf and signing worlds across Jordan, Singapore, and the US. He earned his PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His dissertation draws upon 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Amman from 2021 to 2023 to examine how deaf Jordanians are engaging with new assistive technologies that have emerged there in the last two decades, including cochlear implants and sign language mobile applications. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (Culture and Politics) and a Master of Arts in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, in addition to a Master of Science in HASTS from MIT.