General Profile (see more extended bio here)

Xiangming Chen was appointed inaugural Dean and Director of Trinity’s new Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Trinity College on July 1, 2007.  Dean Chen leads CUGS in developing and strengthening meaningful and synergistic linkages of teaching, research, and service in urban and global studies, broadly defined, between Trinity’s academic programs and its various forms of experiential learning on campus, in Hartford, and globally.  Drawing from interdisciplinary literature and using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, his research focuses on the comparative and transnational facets of global-urban relations in the local and regional contexts of China and Asia with a recent focus on Shanghai and the surrounding region.  He has authored and edited four books and published over 50 papers, essays, and reviews in refereed journals and edited books.  From 1989 to 2007, he served as Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology with adjunct appointments in Political Science and Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directed the International Studies, Asian Studies, and Sociology graduate programs, and taught both undergraduate and graduate courses including: Introduction to Urban Sociology, Cities and Regions, Making Sense of Globalization, Introduction to Comparative Sociology, and Comparative Methods.

Sample Publications

Books:

• Chen, Xiangming (ed). Shanghai Rising: Global Impact, State Power, and Local Transformations in the World’s Most Dynamic Mega-City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
• Chen, Xiangming. As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
• Orum, Anthony M. and Xiangming Chen. The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

Referred Journal Articles:

• Chen, Xiangming and Jiaming Sun. “Untangling a Global-Local Nexus: Sorting Out Residential Sorting in Shanghai.” Environment and Planning A 39, 10 (2007): 2324-2345.
• Chen, Xiangming. “A Tale of Two Regions in China: Rapid Economic Development and Slow Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River and Yangtze River Deltas.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48, 2-3 (2007): 167-201.
• Chen, Xiangming and Jiaming Sun. “Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains.” China Information 20, 3 (2006): 519-551.
• Dow Scott, James Bishop, and Xiangming Chen. “An Examination of the Relationship of Employee Involvement with Job Satisfaction, Employee Cooperation, and Intention to Quit in U.S. Invested Enterprises in China.” International Journal of Organizational Analysis 11, 1 (2003): 3-19.
• Chen, Xiangming. “Both Glue and Lubricant: Transnational Ethnic Social Capital as a Source of Asia-Pacific Subregionalism.” Policy Sciences 33, 3-4 (2000): 269-287.

Honors/Awards

• Advisory Group, Global Value Change Project, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Munich, 2007-
• Conference grant, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank, 2007.
• Editorial board, City & Community, 2006-.
• Distinguished Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, 2006-.
• Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 2006-.
• Advisory Board, Urban Age Project, London School of Economics, 2005-
• Faculty Scholar, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall, 2005.
• Grant, the World Society Foundation, Switzerland, 2004.
• Grant for mentoring a Kazakhstani sociologist, Open Society Institute, 2003.
• Council member, the Urban and Community Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2002-2005.
• Research grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Exchange, 1999-2001.
• Research grant, Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America and Harvard University, 1999-2000.
• President, the North American Chinese Sociologists' Association, 1998-2000.
• Joint Committee on Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council, 1993-1994.

Curriculum Vitae