XiaolingChen
- PhD Candidate
- Health Infrastructure
- Science & Technology Studies
- Digital Surveillance
- Labor & Citizenship
- China
- HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Research Interests
- Infrastructural Power
- Digital Governance
- Science & Technology Studies
- Urban Life & Everydayness
- Violence & Trauma
- Comparative Politics
Global China, Global North, and South East Asia
Recent Courses Taught
- GEOG 3692Introduction to Global Public Health
- GEOG 3822Geography of China
Honors and Awards
2025 AAG travel grant. Graduate Student Affinity Group, American Association of Geographers.
2024 James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Graduate Research Scholarship. Geography, Boulder.
2024 Graduate Research Award Demonstrating Excellence. Center for Humanities & the Arts, Boulder.
2023 Graduate School Travel Grant. Graduate School, Boulder
2023 Best Student Paper Award, China Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers.
2023 Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Boulder.
2023 Mabel Duncan Award, Geography, Boulder.
2023 Janes A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Graduate Travel Award, Geography, Boulder.
2023 The Eaton Graduate Student Research Award, Center for Humanities & the Arts, Boulder.
2023 Travel Grants, the Graduate and Professional Student Government, Boulder.
2022Lead Graduate Teacher Fellowship, Center for Teaching & Learning, Boulder.
2022Gilbert White Doctoral Award, Boulder.
2021Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research, the Society of Woman Geographers.
2021Jennifer Dinaburg Memorial Research Award, Geography, Boulder.
2021Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant award, Boulder.
2021Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences, Boulder.
2020The Solstice Graduate Research Award, Geography at Boulder.
2020Jennifer Dinaburg Memorial Research Award, Geography at Boulder.
Publications:
Chen, Xiaoling.2023.‘They Want the Horse to Run but Without Providing Feed’: Labour Exploitation of Healthcare Workers in China.Made in China, 8(1): 94-107.
Chen, Xiaolingand Tim Oakes.2023.Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China.Critical Asian Studies,55(2):282-305.
Chen, Xiaoling.2023.The Venue Code: Digital Surveillance, Spatial (Re)organization, and Infrastructural Power during the Covid Pandemic in China. Book chapter, in volume:Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning through Big Data and Urban Analytics, edited by Robert Goodspeed, Raja Sengupta, Kyttä Marketta, and Chris Pettit.
Chen, Xiaoling.2020.Spaces of Care and Resistance in China: Public Engagement During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(4-5):435-447.
Chen, Xiaolingand Hulsbrink, Eloiss B.2019.Barriers to Achieving “Economic Self-Sufficiency”: The Structural Vulnerability Experienced by Refugee Families in Denver, Colorado.Human Organization,78(3):218-229.
Education
2019-Present. Ph.D. Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
2018. M.A. Medical Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
2011. M.S. Biotechnology, China Agricultural University
2009. B.S. Resources & Environmental Science, China Agricultural University
Advisor - Tim Oakes