faculty expertise contemporary china

FACULTY EXPERTISE ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA

Core affiliates of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China are Duke Kunshan University faculty in the social sciences and humanities with a primary research and teaching focus on contemporary China.

Annemieke van den Dool

Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke Kunshan University

Member of CSCC Executive Committee

Annemieke van den Dool is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at Duke Kunshan University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar studying policy processes and environmental issues, in particular in China. Predominantly using qualitative methods, she examines policy change after public health crises such as food safety scandals, environmental accidents, and epidemic outbreaks. Dr. Van den Dool received her BA in Chinese Languages and Cultures from Leiden University and MS in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management¾a joint degree¾from Central European University, Lund University and the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in Law from the University of Amsterdam.

Charles Chang

Assistant Professor of Environment and Urban Studies , Duke Kunshan University

Member of CSCC Executive Committee

Charles Chang is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Urban Studies at Duke Kunshan University. He earned his B.A. from Beijing Normal University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016). He was elected as the 2016–2017 Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Stanford and as the 2018–2019 Postdoctoral Associate in Chinese Studies at Yale. His research focuses on the design of the built environment and on how the study of such environment is affected by the quality of information and the rise of communication technologies in contemporary China. Broadly speaking, his research addresses issues in the use of big data and computational methods in social science and in certain aspects of the humanities. His articles have appeared in journals including Landscape and Urban Planning, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Political Analysis, and Journal of Chinese History.

Nellie Chu

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University

Member of CSCC Executive Committee

Nellie Chu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. Her research focuses on global supply chains in fashion and the transnational role of migrant entrepreneurs. She has a project on West African and Korean religious communities related to the doctrine of prosperity based in Guangzhou, China. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include cultures and movements, global China studies and cultural anthropology.
In 2016-17, she held a fellowship with the American Council for Learned Societies / Henry Luce Foundation for China Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served as visiting professor at the University of Goettingen’s Center for Modern East Asian Studies in Germany. In 2017-18, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University’s School for Industrial and Labor Research.
Chu has a B.A. in international relations (highest honors) and German language and culture (high honors) from the University of California, Davis, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). In 2014, she won the Outstanding Teacher’s Assistant Award given by the graduate divisions at UCSC.

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor of Social Science, Duke Kunshan University

Member of CSCC Executive Committee

Yu Wang is an Assistant Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University.She received her BS and MS in Sociology from Renmin University and her MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017). Her research focuses on the role of intermarriage and individual achievement as pathways to social mobility in China during a period of rapid economic, social, and demographic change, intergenerational mobility in China, and sexuality and reproductive behavior in the US. She currently studies the interaction between demographic changes and assortative mating in contemporary China. Her articles have appeared in journals, such as Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, American Journal of Public Health, and Contraception.

Ming Gu

Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke Kunshan University

An applied microeconomist, her primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health and labor economics.

Her research centers on explaining socioeconomic disparities, understanding preference formation, identifying optimal economic behaviors for individuals and society, and understanding how policy can help achieve these ends.

After working as a research specialist at Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, she started a Ph.D. program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2011. She also interned at the U.N. Department of Economics and Social Affairs.

Gu has a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA 

Ming Gu

Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke Kunshan University

An applied microeconomist, her primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health and labor economics.

Her research centers on explaining socioeconomic disparities, understanding preference formation, identifying optimal economic behaviors for individuals and society, and understanding how policy can help achieve these ends.

After working as a research specialist at Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, she started a Ph.D. program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2011. She also interned at the U.N. Department of Economics and Social Affairs.

Gu has a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA 

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