Profile
Professor Michelle T. Y. Huang
Professor of Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
Faculty website: http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1032936
Professor Huangfs recent research focuses on two main concerns: a critical
examination of the cultural governance mobilized by developmentalism and
the cultural politics of representing cross-border subjects in south China
and Taiwan. Her researches emphasize the significance of discovering cultural
factors in fashioning social identities under conditions of rapid globalization,
exploring the experiences and implications of trans-scaled mobility of
gendered and classed subjects. By analyzing timely and significant issues
of urbanitesf social climbing and border crossing, her representative works
contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of urban/regional
development in East Asia. Professor She is the author of Walking Between
Slums and Skyscrapers: Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and
Shanghai (2004) and Articulating New Cultural Identities: Self-Writing
of East Asian Global City-Regions (2011, in Chinese). Her current research
looks at Hong Kong peoplef s lifestyle migration to Taiwan.