Professor Oliver Streiter is here at Temple this year as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence. His home institution is the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He is an interdisciplinary scholar whose intellectual pursuits bridge computational methodologies and humanisticinquiry. He has explored the digital documentation of burial and spiritual practices across Asian and intercultural contexts.

His research explores how material artifacts can illuminate the intricate complexities of social and cultural life. Of particular interest to his research is how compliances with normative systems can be documented and how they are potentially monitored by communities through the mechanism of a grammar.