Mei-Huan Chen

Email:

mzc496@psu.edu

Phone:

Office Address:

Walker Building

Title:

Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Unit:

Department of Geography

Expertise:

political ecology
environmental and water governance
infrastructural geographies

Research Cluster:

Environmental Change and Prediction
Justice, Ethics, and Diversity
Population, Environment, and Governance

Faculty Advisor(s):

Trevor Birkenholtz

I am a human-environment geographer broadly interested in political ecology, infrastructural geographies, landscape ecology, and critical theory. My dissertation examines how cross-strait geopolitics, island environment, and development influence water infrastructure and governance in Kinmen. Prior to joining Penn State, I worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, where I assisted a project examining the politics of water supply in metropolitan Taipei. I earned my Master’s in Building and Planning from National Taiwan University and a BS in Urban Planning from National Cheng Kung University.