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, ֱ.Human Organization,78(3):218-229.
Education
2019-Present. Ph.D. Geography, University of ֱ Boulder
2018. M.A. Medical Anthropology, University of ֱ Denver
2011. M.S. Biotechnology, China Agricultural University
2009. B.S. Resources & Environmental Science, China Agricultural University
Advisor - Tim Oakes