I am a rural/ political geographer interested in rural politics,  food geographies, and more-than-human geographies. My work examines (1) rural environmental politics, focusing on the role of earthly elements in shaping rural environmental politics and challenging our understanding of Geo-politics. Relevant works have been published in leading journals, such as Political Geography and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; (2) how living beings shape agri-food market-making. My research critiques the management of plant and animal diseases solely through biosecurity. These works are published in journals, including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Journal of Cultural Economy, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, The Geographical Journal, and Sociologia Ruralis; (3) rural politics and rural-urban relations. The works on rural politics have been published in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Journal of Agrarian Change. Through international collaborations, my recent works on Planetary Rural Geographies and the Performation of Rurality and Urbanity have been published in Dialogues in Human Geography and Journal of Rural Studies, both problematise the long-lasting rural-urban dichotomy. They extend debates on planetary urbanisation and ruralisation. My recent international collaboration research investigates how rural societies and agricultural sectors across Global South/East/North respond to planetary climate change. 

Appointments

• 2023/8-present, Associate Professor, Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University

• 2019/8-2023/7, Assistant Professor, Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University

• 02/2016-2019/7,  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Fu-Jen Catholic University

Education 

• 2013, PhD, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University (UK)

• 2005, MS, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University

Research Interest 

• Rural Development, Agro-Food Studies, Rural  Environmental Politics, Animal and More-than-human Geographies

Research Grants 

• 08/2022-07/2026, Global Agri-Food Networks and Nature: Environmental Certification, Smart Agriculture and Care Networks, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST 111-2423-H-002-005-MY4 (國科會吳大猷先生紀念獎研究計畫)

• 08/2021-07/2024, Blue Economy and Marine Environmental Politics: Subaquatic materials, animals, and fishing communities, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST110-2410-H-002-MY3

• 06/2021-03/2023, Transantional Theory Building for Researching the Global Countryside: Perspectives from Taiwan and the UK, co-funded by ESRC (UK)  and Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan),  MOST 110-2923-H-002 -003 -MY2 (臺-英雙邊交流國際合作加值計畫--英國ESRC及臺灣科技部共同資助)

• 08/2019-07/2021, Dis/articulating banana and pork markets in East Asia: global commodity chains, scientific knowledge and diseases", funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST108-2628-H-002 -010 -MY2 (Distinguished Young Scholar Research Project 科技部優秀青年學者研究計畫)

• 08/2018-07/2019, Governing the ground substance in the Taiwanese countryside: groundwater, high speed rail and agri-food production, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST107-2410-H-030 -023 

• 08/2016-07/2018, Assembling Lettuce Export Markets: Cooperatives, Peasants, and Socio-Technical Innovation, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST105-2410-H-030-067-MY2 

Awards:

• 2024, Teaching Award, National Taiwan University, (2023 國立臺灣大學教學優良獎)

• 2021, 2022, 2023, Research Award, National Taiwan University, ( 國立臺灣大學研究績效獎勵)

• 2021, 2022, 2023, Research Award, National Taiwan University, (2022 國立臺灣大學傑出期刊獎勵)

• 2022, Teaching Award, National Taiwan University, (2021 國立臺灣大學教學優良獎)

• 2020, Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, Ministry of Science and Technology. (2020年 科技部吳大猷先生紀念獎)

• 2019 National Agricultural Science Award (Collaboration with Dr. Yir-Hueih Luh) 2019年第一屆國家農業科學獎 

• 2019 Distinguished Young Scholar, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan 科技部優秀青年學者研究計畫獎助

• Distinguished Research Award, Fu-Jen Catholic University (2017, 2018) 輔仁大學 指標性期刊獎勵

• Aberystwyth International Postgraduate Research Studentship (AIPRS, 2011-2013)

• Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship (2010-2012)