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Xuefei Ren's comparative urbanist work explores urban governance and the built environment from a global perspective. She is the author of award-winning books including "Governing Urban China India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, War Air Pollution" (Princeton University Press, 2020), "Urban China" (Polity, 2013), and "Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production Urban China" (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Ren is a fellow of the Humanity’s Urban Future program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and previously served as a Public Intellectual Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She has held editorial roles including associate editor for the Journal of Urban Affairs and has been an editorial board member for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Her research has been supported by organizations such as the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Currently, she is completing a co-authored book manuscript titled "The City Covid-19: Chicago, Toronto, Johannesburg" and has launched several new research initiatives aimed at advancing a comparative urban political economy that considers lenses of geopolitics and climate imaginaries.
Department of Psychology