Chien-Juh Gu

Dr. Chien-Juh Gu is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University, specializing in gender, social psychology, immigration, and health. She has received numerous awards and grants, including being the first winner of the Gender Scholar Award and a two-time recipient of the Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award at WMU. On students’ nomination, Dr. Gu received a College of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching. She also received a College of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Achievement Award in Research and Creative Activity.

Dr. Gu was a finalist for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Her work has been featured in the WMU College of Arts and Sciences Magazine.

Gu recently received the Fulbright Scholar Award to Austria for the academic year 2024-25. She conducted research on gendered immigration in Austria and taught two graduate seminars as a Fulbright Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna.

Gu is the author of Mental Health among Taiwanese Americans: Gender, Immigration, and Transnational Struggles (2006, LFB) and The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans (2018, Rutgers University Press). She has published articles in the areas of gender, social psychology, immigration, racial inequality, refugee studies, research methods, and higher education. Her recent research examines the social adaptation of Burmese Christian refugees in the United States. She is working on her third book, From Religious Minority to Racial Minority: Burmese Christian Diaspora in America's Heartland (under contract with a university press).

In her free time, Gu enjoys playing the piano and guitar and walking her dog, Link.