E-MAIL: guochen(at)msu.edu

Pronouns: she/her/hers


2022–2023: Lilly Fellowship

Fall 2018: Sabbatical Leave

Fall 2018: Short-Term Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne

2017–2018: Wilson Center Fellowship Leave

                                                             

ASSOCIATED  PROGRAMS

Core Faculty, Asian Pacific American (APA) Studies Program

Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Center, International Studies & Programs

Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP)

Associated Faculty, Gender, Justice and Environmental Change (GJEC)

Consulting Faculty, Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)

                                                             

NEWS,  TALKS,  &  EVENTS

-Guo named inaugural Editor in Human Geography/Nature and Society of The Professional Geographer 2023 (Read AAG news)

-Dr. Guo Chen receives GenCen Inspiration Award-Professional Achievement Award 2023/4 (Read Department news / GenCen news

-New Focus (Special Issue) on Hidden Geographies published in The Professional Geographer 2023! Check out the Introduction Essay and all six articles in the issue

-Call for papers to Special Issue on Global Social Environmental Justice (link and flyer) 2023

-Enacting Inclusive Futures: APA Studies Symposium 2022/3/18

-Guo Featured in AAG Women in Geography Webinar: Thriving and Advancing in a Male Dominated Field 2022/3/15

-SWIG Event: Neurodiversity and Space (with resources) 2022/3/4

-SWIG Roundtable & Talk: Afghanistan: Security, Gender, and Development 2021/10/28-29

-Honors Research Seminar on Global Slums;  UURAF award-winning undergrad research Fall 2021–Spring 2022

-AAG virtual panel on anti-racist praxis in Geography and AAG virtual panel on migration, race, ethnicity, & justice, both organized by Guo; Guo penned inaugural AAG-Perspectives article 2021/4/29

-Guo received the CGSG Outstanding Service Award in 2020; AAG newsletter 2020

-Guo as faculty organizer of Anti-Asian Racism & Covid-19 webinar 2020

                                                             

RESEARCH  SPECIALTIES

Urban & Economic Geography

Poverty, Inequality, & Social Justice

Slums, Housing,  & Migrants

Urban & Regional Policies

Urbanization & Environment

Waste Geographies

Mixed, Quantitative, Qualitative, & Creative Research Methods

China & Globalization

Global South, Asia-Pacific, & Emerging Countries

Justice and DEI in Geography

Asian and Asian American Geographies

Guo Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Geography & Global Urban Studies

Michigan State University

Ph.D., Geography, Pennsylvania State University

M.S. & B.S., Nanjing University



Selected Research Publications (Please Refer to CV for All Publications)






Selected Edited Books and Special Issues

Special Issue

Sustainability, 2023–

Special Issue: Global Social and Environmental Justice: Intersections and Dialogues

Special Issue

Environment and Planning A, 44(12), 2012

Theme Issue: Interrogating Unequal Rights to the Chinese City

(Based on  an AAG triple session series initiated and led by Guo)

Edited Book

Locating Right to the City in the Global South. New York: Routledge, 2012

(Based on an AAG double session series co-organized by Guo)

Selected Journal Articles (Please refer to CV for a complete list)

Exploring Differences within the Low-income Population in Urban China: A Case Study in Kunming, Yunnan Province

with Hou, X. 2020

Area

with Chen, H., et al. 2018

Habitat International

with Zhou, P. and Grady, S. 2017

Social Science & Medicine

with Chen, K. (equal contribution) 2015

Cities, 47, 10–22

2012

Environment and Planning A, 44(12), 2794–2800

Gu, C., Chen, G., and Wu, F. 2010

Science Reports of Tohoku University-Geography, 57(1/2), 1-23

東北大學理科報告. 7, 地理學

Chen, G., Zhou, J., and Glasmeier, A. 2007

Urban Planning International, 22(2), 1-2 (In Chinese)

Chen, G. et al. 2006

Habitat International, 30 (1), 1-26

(Based on my thesis in Chinese on urban poverty in Nanjing)

Selected Book Chapters (Please refer to CV for a complete list)

Henancun in Beijing: A Parallel Society in the Making,  In T. Mayer & T. Tran (Eds.), Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power. Routledge. 2022 (with Feng, J.)

Socio-Spatial Transformation of Chinese Cities. In W. Wu & M. Frazier (Eds.), Handbook on Contemporary China. SAGE. 2018 (with Feng, J.)

Municipal solid waste and environmental equity in urban and rural China. In Z. Liang et al. (Eds.), Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China, (pp. 39–55). New York: Routledge. 2016 (with Wei, Y.)

The housing predicaments of China's urban poor. In E. Murphy & N. Hourani (Eds.), The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City (pp. 161–180). Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2013

Locating right to the city in the Global South. In T. Samara, S. He, & G. Chen (Eds.), Locating Right to the City in the Global South (pp. 1–20). New York: Routledge. 2012

Book Reviews

Chen, G. (2021). Citizens in motion: Emigration, immigration, and re-migration across China’s borders by E. Ho. The Geographical Review

Chen, G. (2009). China’s urban space: Development under market socialism by T. G. McGee, G. C. S. Lin, A. M. Marton, M. Y. L. Wang, & J. Wu. Journal of Regional Science, 49(3), 585–587

Chen, G. (2005). How migrant labor is changing rural China by R. Murphy. Regional Studies, 39(1), 155–156

Chen, G. (2005). The Chinese diaspora: Space, place, mobility, and identity by L. J. C. Ma & C. Cartier (Eds.). Regional Studies, 38(2), 226–227