Expertise
US Diplomatic History, Modern Chinese History, and Asian American History
Research Interests
- Modern China and Asian American
- China's rural transformation and Chinese American history
Education
- Ph D: History, (1997), University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
- MA: Political Science, (1987), University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
- Other: English Language and Literature, (1977), Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute - Shanghai, China
Selected Awards and Honors
- 2011 Teaching Excellence Award (2011), Teaching - Department of History, UMass Lowell
- Citation in Who's Who Among American Teachers, 7th edition (2002)
- Teaching Excellence Award (2002), Teaching - Department of History, UMass Lowell
- Teaching Excellence Award (1999), Teaching - Department of History, UMass Lowell
- Teaching Excellence Award (1998), Teaching - Student Government Association, UMass Lowell
- Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award (1994) - Department of History, University of Utah
- Outstanding First-year Ph.D. Student Award (1987) - Department of History, University of Utah
Selected Publications
- Chen, S., Chen, H. (2015). Daughter of Good Fortune: a Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir. University of Washington Press
- Chen, S. (2010). Review of Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, ethnicity, and community transformation. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare,37(3) 200-202.
- Chen, S. (2006). American Paper Son: A Chinese Immigrant in the Midwest. Pacific Affairs,79(4).
- Chen, S. (2006). Republicanism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Capitalism in American Chinese Ideology. Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era, 174-193.
- Chen, S. (2005). Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community. American Historical Review,110(3) 813.
- Chen, S. (2004). At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943. Journal of American Ethnic History,23(2) 105-106.
- Chen, S. (2003). Reconstructing the Chinese American Experience in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870sâ"1970s.
- Chen, S. (2003). Remaking Chinese America (Book). Journal of Asian Studies,62(1) 220.
- Chen, S. (2002). Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2002
Selected Presentations
- Reconstructing the Chinese Experience in Lowell - Boston, MA and Lowell, MA
- A Glimpse into Spiritual Life in Rural China - Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony, November 2012 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- Modern China - China Fellowship Program, May 2009 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- China During and Since the Cultural Revolution - China Fellowship Program, May 2008 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- China's Rural Transformation Seen Through the Village Wedding Ceremony - Annual Conference of International Association of Asian Studies, February 2007 - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Organizer/Discussant, "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Asian American Experience in New England" - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, March 2004 - Boston, MA
- Panelist at the roundtable discussion "Restoring Asians to American History: The Pioneering Scholarship of Him Mark Lai - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, March 2004 - Boston, MA
- Revolution, Discrimination, and Chinese American Identity - Honors Colloquium, November 2002
- "On A Different Shore: (Re)searching Asian Americans in New England" - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, April 2002 - Salt Lake City, UT
- Chair/discussant "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of the Chinese Diaspora" - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, April 2002 - Salt Lake City, UT
- Reconstructing the Chinese Experience in Lowell, April 2002 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- "Reconstructing the Chinese Experience in Lowell" - Research Symposium, Institute for Asian American Studies, November 2001 - Boston, MA
- "My Dog Introduced Me to My Future Husband:" The Chinese American Experience in Lowell, Massachusetts - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, March 2001 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Chinese History, March 2001 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- History in the Making: A Case Study of China's Industrialization and Urbanization - Honors Colloquium, November 2000
- A Glimpse of Life and Changes in Present China - Salon in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, October 2000
- A panelist at the Round Table Discussion "An Endangered Species? Ethnic Studies Libraries" - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, April 1999 - Philadelphia, PA
- An Overview of Religions in China - Workshop of the Lowell- Asia Project sponsored by UMass Lowell and the Bartlett, Butler, and Daley Middle Schools, May 1998 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- What Does Democracy Mean?, April 1998 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- A panelist at the round table discussion "Teaching with Film across Disciplines" - Annual Conference on Cinema and Multiculturalism, March 1998 - Lowell, Massachusetts
- Panelist, "Reconstructing Chinese Identity in the United States" - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, April 1997 - Seattle, WA
- Chinese Nationalism and Chinese American Identity - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, May 1996 - Washington, D.C.
- America's Different Responses to China During the Korean and Vietnam Wars - Annual Conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 1990 - Washington, D.C.
- Idealism as a Factor in American Foreign Policy - Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, October 1986 - Long Beach, CA
Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Gender Studies Teaching Fellow (2006), Fellowship -
Chen, S. - Professional Development Research Grant (2004), -
Chen, S. - Healey Grant (2001), Grant -
Chen, S. - Research Fellowship, Institute for Asian American Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston (2001), -
Chen, S. - Steffensen Cannon Scholarship, University of Utah (1994), -
Chen, S. - Eccles Graduate Fellowship, University of Utah (1993), Fellowship -
Chen, S. - Scholarship Grant, University of Utah (1984), Grant -
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