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Tjuku Ruljigaljig

Associate Professor and Director of the Program for Indigenous Studies Tjuku Ruljigaljig

Tjuku Ruljigaljig, Associate Professor and Director of the Program for Indigenous Studies

Personal Information

Research Interests: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science Education, Slope Land Disaster Prevention, Spatial Information Applications
E-mail：tjuku@g-mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Extension：5675
Office：SS 4034

Education

Ph.D. in Department of Resources Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

Current Position

  • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University

Experience

  • Assistant Professor & Associate Professor, Program for Indigenous Studies, National Pingtung University (Aug. 2015 – Jul. 2025)
  • Director, Program for Indigenous Studies, National Pingtung University (Aug. 2020 – Jul. 2023)
  • Director, Research Center for Indigenous Education, National Pingtung University (Aug. 2015 – Jul. 2019)
  • Project Assistant Professor, Program for Indigenous Studies, National Pingtung University (Aug. 2013 – Jul. 2015)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, National Cheng Kung University (Jan. 2011 – Jul. 2013)

Research Statement

My research stems from the situations of Indigenous peoples situated within land, disasters, and knowledge systems. My early training and publications focused primarily on geology, remote sensing, groundwater resources, and disaster risk analysis, relying comfortably on spatial data and engineering methods to comprehend environmental changes. Later, as I ventured into science education and culturally responsive curriculum research, I gradually realized that beyond technology lies an even more core issue: what knowledge gets recognized, and whose experiences are integrated into curricula, policies, and governance sites?

Consequently, my research has gradually shifted toward Indigenous knowledge, disaster governance, and land issues. Recently, my work builds upon the disaster prevention experiences, place names, rituals, and linguistic concepts of the Paiwan people to understand the environmental observations, risk memories, and ethical orders embedded within them. Through oral histories, mapping, historical data, and participatory research, I also strive to bring these knowledge systems into educational curricula, local governance discussions, and policy recommendations.

Looking back, I have not abandoned my early training in engineering and disaster research; rather, I have repositioned it within larger questions of knowledge politics. While technology can describe terrains, rivers, slopes, and disasters, it must still confront how humans understand the land, bear risks, and organize their lives amidst historical constraints. For me, the key is whether institutions can acknowledge the integrity of different knowledge systems and readjust their own ways of understanding land, risk, and public decision-making.

期刊論文

  • 夏傳位、李馨慈（2026）。災難治理的知識政治：科學災防體制為何無法攜手原住民知識？。《地理學報》，預刊登文章，1–33。
  • 李馨慈、鄭詠心、林宏奕、余騰鐸、林燕初、張閔翔、王詠絢（2021）。臺灣中南段山區常流河調查方法與實踐。《經濟部中央地質調查所特刊》，36，113–133。
  • 謝百淇、張美珍、李馨慈（2018）。文化回應課程與評量之統整模式：以偏鄉原住民小學的自然災害單元為例。《教育學刊》，51，33-74。
  • 謝百淇、張育真、張美珍、李馨慈（2016）。化零為整：科學學習生態系統取向之文化回應課程。《科學教育學刊》，24(S)，25–49。
  • Roder, G., Ruljigaljig, T., Lin, C.-W., & Tarolli, P. (2016). Natural hazards knowledge and risk perception of Wujie indigenous community in Taiwan. Natural Hazards, 81(1), 641–662.
  • Wang, T.-S., Yu, T.-T., Lee, S.-T., Peng, W.-F., Lin, W.-L., & Li, P.-L. (2014). MATLAB code to estimate landslide volume from single remote sensed image using genetic algorithm and imagery similarity measurement. Computers & Geosciences, 70, 238–247.
  • Yeh, H.-F., Lin, H.-I., Lee, S.-T., Chang, M.-H., Hsu, K.-C., & Lee, C.-H. (2014). GIS and SBF for estimating groundwater recharge of mountainous basin in Wu River watershed, Taiwan. Journal of Earth System Science, 123, 503–516.
  • 王士榮、李馨慈、林宏奕、徐國錦、張閔翔、黃智昭、李振誥（2014）。立霧溪與花蓮溪流域地下水資源量評估。《農業工程學報》，60(4)，20–33。
  • Huang, C.-C., Yeh, H.-F., Lin, H.-I., Lee, S.-T., Hsu, K.-C., & Lee, C.-H. (2013). Groundwater recharge and exploitative potential zone mapping using GIS and GOD techniques. Environmental Earth Sciences, 68(1), 267–280.
  • 王士榮、林宏奕、李馨慈、徐國錦、黃智昭、張閔翔、李振誥（2013）。烏溪流域山區之地下水資源開發評估。《農業工程學報》，59(3)，71–84。
  • 王士榮、李馨慈、林宏奕、徐國錦、張閔翔、黃智昭、李振誥（2012）。大甲溪流域中上游地區地下水出水量評估。《農業工程學報》，58(4)，1–14。
  • 王士榮、林宏奕、李馨慈、徐國錦、黃智昭、張閔翔、李振誥（2012）。應用三維數值模式評估濁水溪中游山區地下水安全出水量。《農業工程學報》，58(1)，2–13。
  • 林宏奕、葉信富、李馨慈、徐國錦、李振誥（2011）。應用遙感探測與地理資訊系統劃分台灣中段山區（濁水溪中游）地下水補注潛勢與開發潛能區。《台灣水利》 59(3)，25–40。
  • Lee, S.-T., Yu, T.-T., Peng, W.-F., & Wang, C.-L. (2010). Incorporating the effects of topographic amplification in the analysis of earthquake-induced landslide hazards using logistic regression. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 10, 2475–2488.
  • Peng, W.-F., Wang, C.-L., Chen, S.-T., & Lee, S.-T. (2009). A seismic landslide hazard analysis with topographic effect, a case study in the 99 Peaks region, Central Taiwan. Environmental Geology, 57(3), 537–549.
  • Peng, W.-F., Wang, C.-L., Chen, S.-T., & Lee, S.-T. (2009). Incorporating the effects of topographic amplification and sliding areas in the modeling of earthquake-induced landslide hazards, using the cumulative displacement method. Computers & Geosciences, 35(5), 946–966.
  • 李馨慈、余騰鐸、王建力（2009）。由空載雷射掃描數值高程萃取線性特徵於河川工程之應用。公共工程5(1)，49–56。

專書論文

  • Tjuku Ruljigaljig, Saiviq Kisasa, Paiteng Cheng. Resilience to Disaster-driven Relocation Through Paiwan Inheritance Culture after Typhoon Morakot: The Laiyi case in Taiwan. Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim (ISBN: 9781003206415). London: Routledge. Jul, 2023: 17. MOST 106-2420-H-153-002-MY3.
  • 李馨慈 Tjuku Rujiljigaljig、王凱倫 Giyu.Tjauvalid、鄭清平 （2021年07月）。以部落災害知識為主題的防災教育課程發展與設計研究 。原住民科學教育計劃十年回顧專刊。科技部：106-2511-s-153-008-MY4
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