Xiangming Chen

Xiangming Chen (Chinese: 陈向明; simplified Chinese: 陈向明; traditional Chinese: 陳向明; pinyin: Chén Xiàngmíng) served as the founding dean and director of urban and global studies and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, from 2007 to 2019. He is currently the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College. Prior to this, Chen served as assistant to full professor of sociology and adjunct professor of political science and urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chen holds the positions of distinguished guest professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, adjunct professor at the graduate school of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and honorary research fellow at the Institute of Economics of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at Yale University. Chen has received fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Sociological Association, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Open Society Foundations, and the Regional Studies Association.