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EMPLOYMENT (Selected)
 
2025-2026 
Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar
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2023 May-present     
Associate Research Fellow (tenured), Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica
 
2018 Dec-2023 May      
Assistant Research Fellow (tenure track), Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica
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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
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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 
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2013 M.A.     UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MANOA                   
Major: Geography
Thesis:
Techno-Production Network of Edamame Trade, between Taiwan and Japan
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2007 M.A.     FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY             
Major: Mass Communication Study
Thesis:
The Story of Liquid City: Municipal Policy of Digitalized Kaohsiung, 1999-2005
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2003 B.A.      SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY         
Major: Public Relations
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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.
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SELECTED HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS
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2025-2026 Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Fellowship

2025-2026 Fulbright Scholar Award (declined)
 
2025-2028 National Science and Technology Council Research Grant (NSTC)
 
2023-2025 Emerging Young Scholar Research Grants Award (NSTC)
 
2020-2023 Excellent Young Scholar Research Grants Award (NSTC)
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2019-2021 The Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grant (NSTC)
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2019 Recruitment of Visiting Science and Technology Personnel Grant (NSTC)
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2018 American Geographical Society Council Fellowship
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2017 Dissertation Enhancement Award, Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
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2017 Global Oregon Summer Grant Award. Global Education Oregon
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2017 Travel Grant Award. Summer Workshop Asian Food: History, Anthropology, Sociology, Leiden University
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2015  Pre-dissertation Research Grant Award, Program in China Studies, The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS
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2015  Pre-dissertation Research Grant Award, China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC), Association for Asian Studies
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2015  Graduate Student Paper Award (second place), Communication Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
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2015  Summer Research Grant Award, The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
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2014  Summer Research Grant Award, Food Studies Program, University of Oregon
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2014  Student Travel Grant, The 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference
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2014  Student Travel Grant, Geography Department, University of Oregon
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2013-2017 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Geography Department, University of Oregon
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2012  Summer Research Grant Award, Chung-Fong and Grace Ning Fund, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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2012  Student Travel Grant Award, Water Resources Specialty Group,  Association of American Geographers
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2010  Graduate Merit Scholarship, Geography Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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2005  Dissertation Fellowship GI, FU-Shin & Chang, Chin-Fan Culture and Education Foundation

PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)
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12. Kuan-Chi Wang, 2025, Struggling for access in the global era: the cases of edamame and rice agriculture in rural Thailand. Food, Culture, and Society 28 (4) 836–856.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
 
2. Kuan-Chi Wang, 2016, Review of “Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor”. Geographical Review 106 (3), 47-50.
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1. 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. 
 
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.
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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).
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TEACHING AND OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCES
 
Instructor at National Taiwan University
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2025 Spring: Rural Development and Resource Planning (Graduate Seminar, BP 7228)
 
2022 Fall: Rural Development and Resource Planning (Graduate Seminar, BP 7228)
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2021 Spring: Rural Development and Resource Planning (Graduate Seminar, BP 7228)
 
Instructor at the University of Oregon
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2018 Winter: Geography of Globalization (GEOG 342)
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2017 Spring: What is Asia: Theoretical Debates (ASIA 350)
 
2016 Summer: Geography of Globalization (GEOG 342)
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Graduate Employee/Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon
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2017 Winter: Urban Geography
          Fall: Our Digital Earth
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2016 Winter: The World and Big Data
          Spring: Our Digital Earth
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2015 Winter: Geography of Globalization
          Spring: Geography of Pacific-Asia
          Fall: Human Geography
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2014 Winter: Geography of Globalization 
          Spring: Geography of Food 
          Fall: The Chinese Economy
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2013 Fall: Geography of Latin America
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Project Consultant
 
Maku’u Farmer Association, Hawaii, May-June 2010
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Coordinator
 
Taiwan Water and Land Research Network, Jan 2012- Dec 2015; Jan 2022-present
 
Editorial Board
 
2019-2025 Frontiers (Sustainable Food Systems-Urban Agriculture)
 
Journal Reviewer (selected)
 
Journal of Peasant Studies, Antipode, Globalizations, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, ​
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COMPUTER AND STATISTIC PROFICIENCY
 
R- Regression Analysis, Network Analysis
 
Pajek- Social Network Analysis
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Python- Data Visualization
 
NetLogo- Programing & Modeling
 
MS Office Suite