CV.
EMPLOYMENT
2023 May-present
Associate Research Fellow (tenured), Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica
2018 Dec-2023 May
Assistant Research Fellow (tenure track), Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica
2023 July-present
Associate Professor (part time), Graduate Institute of Building and Planning,
National Taiwan University
2021 July-2023 July
Assistant Professor (part time), Graduate Institute of Building and Planning,
National Taiwan University
2016-2018
Lecture (part time), Asian Studies and Geography, University of Oregon
EDUCATION
2018 Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Major: Geography
Dissertation:
Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade
2013 M.A. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MANOA
Major: Geography
Thesis:
Techno-Production Network of Edamame Trade, between Taiwan and Japan
2007 M.A. FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Major: Mass Communication Study, Development and Policy Division
Thesis:
The Story of Liquid City: Municipal Policy of Digitalized Kaohsiung, 1999-2005
2003 B.A. SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY
Major: Public Relations and NGO Management
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Geopolitics and geoeconomics of Northeast Asia (especially on Taiwan- Japan- China trilateral interactions) and Southeast Asia (especially on Taiwan- Thailand - China trilateral interactions), the agro-food system of Asia, political economy of space and natural resource, water politics, social theory, computational social science and digital humanities.
PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)
12. Kuan-Chi Wang, forthcoming, Struggling for access in the global era: the cases of edamame and rice agriculture in rural Thailand. Food, Culture, and Society.
11. Kuan-Chi Wang and Daniel Buck. 2024. Relocating agrarian development in Asia: food regimes, R&D programs, and the long twentieth century. Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(1), 212-236. (See the summary of the article published by American Sociological Association (ASA): https://marxistsociology.org/2024/03/provincializing-asian-regional-food-regimes/)
10. Ryan Holroyd and Kuan-Chi Wang. 2022. Maritime Trading Networks and Late Imperial China’s Imperfect Rediscovery of Southeast Asian Geography, 1500 – 1740. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 53(1-2), 4-30.
9. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2021. Border as Assemblages: Rethinking the Border Politics of the Global Food Trade. Geography Compass 15(12), 1-10.
8. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2021. Reimagining the Global Food Regimes for Relational Spaces. Area 53(4), 637-646.
7. Kuan-Chi Wang, Ho, Chun-Yi, and Chen, Chih-Yuan. 2021. Taming the groundwater in rural Asia: The biopolitics of constructing groundwater‐scape. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 42(2), 301-324.
6. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2021. Measuring the Reach of Asian Regional Food Regimes in the WTO Era. Geographical Review, 111(3), 327-351.
5. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2020. The Art of Rent: The Making of edamame monopoly rents in East Asia, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3(3), 624-641.
4. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2018. East Asian Food Regimes: Agrarian Warriors, Edamame Beans, and
Spatial Topologies of Food Regimes in East Asia, Journal of Peasant Studies 45 (4), 739-756.
3. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2018. Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia, Geographical Review 108 (2), 274-295.
2. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2017. Who Owns "Place of People Cinema"? Glocalizing "Taiwan New Cinema" in the Neoliberal Era, Space and Culture 20 (1), 107-117.
1. Kuan-Chi Wang. 2012. Capturing the Information City: The Liberation of Spatial Technology in Taiwan, 1994-2008, International Journal of Communication 6, 2117-2130.
BOOK REVIEWS
3.Kuan-Chi Wang, 2016, Review of “Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor”. Geographical Review 106 (3), 47-50.
2.Kuan-Chi Wang, 2012, Review of “Border Landscapes: The politics of Akha land use in China and Thailand”. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 43(2), 394-6.
1.Kuan-Chi Wang, 2010, Review of “The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-managed irrigation in the western Himalaya”. Journal of Geographical Science 59, 133-6.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Kuan-Chi Wang , 2018, “The Place of People Cinema: Taiwan's Experiences” Paper presented, The Workshop Changing Cultural Geographies of Movie Theaters in Asia, Singapore, Nov 16.
Kuan-Chi Wang , 2016, “Making GM Papaya: The Global Food Network and its Regionalization” Paper presented, The Annual Conference Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29- April 2.
Kuan-Chi Wang , 2016, “The Emerging Regional Food Regime: The Regionalization of Edamame Flow in East Asia ” Paper presented, The NW China Forum, Seattle, April 29-May 1. (selected as the representative of UO).
SELECTED HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2023-2025 Emerging Young Scholar Research Grants Award (NSTC)
2020-2023 Excellent Young Scholar Research Grants Award (NSTC)
2019-2021 The Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grant (NSTC)
2019 Recruitment of Visiting Science and Technology Personnel Grant (NSTC)
2018 American Geographical Society Council Fellowship
2017 Dissertation Enhancement Award, Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
2017 Global Oregon Summer Grant Award. Global Education Oregon
2017 Travel Grant Award. Summer Workshop Asian Food: History, Anthropology, Sociology, Leiden University
2015 Pre-dissertation Research Grant Award, Program in China Studies, The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS
2015 Pre-dissertation Research Grant Award, China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC), Association for Asian Studies
2015 Graduate Student Paper Award (second place), Communication Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
2015 Summer Research Grant Award, The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
2014 Summer Research Grant Award, Food Studies Program, University of Oregon
2014 Student Travel Grant, The 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference
2014 Student Travel Grant, Geography Department, University of Oregon
2013-2017 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Geography Department, University of Oregon
2012 Summer Research Grant Award, Chung-Fong and Grace Ning Fund, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2012 Student Travel Grant Award, Water Resources Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
2010 Graduate Merit Scholarship, Geography Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2005 Dissertation Fellowship GI, FU-Shin & Chang, Chin-Fan Culture and Education Foundation