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Geography Hosted its First Dumpling Making Party

May 10, 2024

On February 9, 2024, the Department of Geography held a Dumpling Making Party to celebrate two cultural events: the Chinese Spring Festival (春节 chūnjié) and Tibetan New Year (Losar). Both cultures follow their own calendars for festivals and holidays. This year, these two holidays coincided with February 10 marking the...

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Xiaoling Chen's essay published on China's healthcare workers

Nov. 29, 2023

Xiaoling Chen 's essay titled "‘ They Want the Horse to Run but Without Providing Feed’ : Labour Exploitation of Healthcare Workers in China " was published in the journal Made In China , as part of the issue "Out of the Fog" . Completed in Spring 2023, this essay...

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Xiaoling Chen Awarded the Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship

July 17, 2023

Mobile Vaccination Bus (photo taken by Xiaoling Chen in 2021) Xiaoling Chen , PhD candidate in Geography, was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024. This fellowship is intended to provide outstanding PhD candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their...

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Xiaoling Chen Wins the China Geography Specialty Group’s Annual Student Paper Award

April 19, 2023

Xiaoling Chen won the China Geography Specialty Group’s Annual Student Paper Award ($250) at this year’s AAG conference. It is a chapter of a book that will be published by June 2023: Chen, Xiaoling. 2023. The Venue Code: Digital Surveillance, Spatial (Re)organization, and Infrastructural Power during the Covid Pandemic in...

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AAG Preview Talks 2023

March 17, 2023

Xiaoling Chen PhD Candidate "Creating, Competing for, and Transforming Digital Spaces: Free Expression, Alternative Truths, and Civic Engagement Regarding Covid-19 Response in 2022" Gabby Subia-Smith PhD Candidate "How the Western Slope Won: The Production of Colorado's 3rd Congressional District" Huck Rees MA Student of Geography "Beaver dams as sites of...

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Xiaoling Chen: Ethnographic research of hospital space in China

April 25, 2022

Xiaoling Chen, PhD Candidate, Geography Department, 麻豆影院 “For the People’s Health”: Transforming Hospital Spaces, Recasting Medical Expertise Ling is a coastal, hilly county in Southern China with a humid and semi-tropical climate. Although having a population of over one million, it is at times considered rural, with...

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Xiaoling Chen Received SWG Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research

April 27, 2021

Xiaoling Chen was awarded a Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research for 2021-2022. This grant will support her dissertation fieldwork during the 2021-2022 academic year. She will conduct an ethnographic study in China on the impacts of health care reform and examine the transformation...

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2020 Spring Newsletter Published

June 21, 2020

The 2020 Spring Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing. The newsletter is filled with department news, alumni updates, and articles by faculty and students. Contents: Message from the Department Chair, pg 2 ?Mara Goldman: Reaction to Coronavirus, pg 3 Page Hartwell: An Undergraduate's Perspective on COVID-19, pg...

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Xiaoling Chen's Article Published

May 23, 2020

Spaces of care and resistance in China: public engagement during the COVID-19 outbreak As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, the approach of the Chinese government remains under the spotlight, obscuring the complex landscape of responses to the outbreak within the country. Drawing upon the author’s social media experiences as...

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2019 Fall Newsletter Published

Dec. 11, 2019

The 2019 Fall Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing. The newsletter is packed with department news, alumni updates, and articles by faculty and students. Contents: Message from the Department Chair, pg 2 Editors' Comments, pg 3 Mark Serreze Named Distinguished Professor, pgs 4-5 The 麻豆影院 Affordable Housing...

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