Xuefei Ren
- Professor
- Department of Sociology
- PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago
- 401C Berkey Hall
- 509 E. Circle Drive
- East Lansing, MI 48824
- 527-355-6644
- renxuefe@msu.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Xuefei RenBIOGRAPHY
Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work explores urban governance and the built environment from a global perspective. 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), Urban China (Polity, 2013), and Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Ren is a fellow in the Humanity’s Urban Future program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and previously served as a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She has held editorial roles as an associate editor for the Journal of Urban Affairs and City and Community, and as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Her research has been supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Urban Studies Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, among others.
Currently, she is completing a co-authored book manuscript, “The City after Covid-19: Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg,” and has launched several new research initiatives, including (1) Future-Proofing Climate Boomtowns: Lessons from Chicago, Toronto, Geneva, and Zurich; (2) Rethinking Southern Urbanism from the Periphery; and (3) Political Ecology of Snow. Together, these projects aim to advance a new approach to comparative urban political economy through the lenses of geopolitics, hinterlands, and climate imaginaries.
ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS
- Asian Studies Center
- Global Urban Studies Program