“Urban China and Covid-19: How Chinese Cities Responded to the Pandemic,” Journal of International Affairs, in press. Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance and the War on Air Pollution. She is accepting new students and looking forward to working with students interested in the intersection of health, migration, and environment from a critical urban perspective. She regularly teaches large undergraduate courses on World Urban System, Urban Sociology, International Development, and graduate seminars on Urban Theory and Structural Inequality. Her commentaries have appeared in Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, among others. She is a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2021-2023). Her research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Urban Studies Foundation, among others. She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University Press, 2020 Honorable Mention for the Dennis Judd Best Book Award in Urban and Local Politics, American Political Science Association), Urban China (Polity, 2013 Best Academic Title, Choice Magazine), and Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011 Best Book in the Political Economy of the World System Section, and Honorable Mention for the Robert Park Best Book Award in Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association). On migration, she has been studying rural-to-urban migrants in China and their rights to housing. On environment, she has published extensively on environmental governance in China and India, focusing on air pollution. On health inequity, she is a principal investigator on a large international project that examines how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected vulnerable neighborhoods in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg. Xuefei Ren is an urban sociologist and her research intersects with all three signature areas of the Department of Sociology at MSU-health, environment, and migration. PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago 2007.
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