
Her public scholarship includes many op-eds for key policy forums and her professional society, TV interview, and webinars. She is co-editor of Locating Right to the City in the Global South (Routledge 2013) and “Interrogating unequal rights to the Chinese city” ( Environment and Planning A Special Issue based on her initiated sessions at the AAG meeting), and initiator and editor of a Focus Section for The Professional Geographer titled “Hidden Geographies” featuring research articles on (transnational) migration and social justice by diverse scholars. She is a university Lilly Fellow for faculty leadership and excellence in teaching at MSU.Īn urban and economic geographer, a teacher scholar, and a public intellectual, Guo has authored and co-authored over fifty publications with a focus on inequality, urban poverty, housing rights and for the poor, slums, migrants, urbanization and land use, urban governance, and social and environmental justice in China, Asia-Pacific, and the Global South, including book chapters and articles published in PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, The Professional Geographer, Environment and Planning A, Urban Geography, Urban Studies, Cities, Area Habitat International, Acta Geographica Sinica, and close to fifteen other different academic journals. Her many awards include an MSU Integrative Studies in Social Science Teaching Excellence Award (2010), a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship (2017–18), and an American Association of Geographers (AAG) China Geography Specialty Group Outstanding Service Award (2020). in Economic Geography and Regional Planning from Nanjing University. degree in Geography from The Pennsylvania State University, a Master’s degree in Human Geography (focus on urban and regional planning), and a B.S.


(she/her), is an Associate Professor of Geography and Global Urban Studies within the College of Social Science, a core faculty member of the Asian Pacific American (APA) Studies Program, and an affiliated faculty member of the Asian Studies Center and ESPP at MSU. Urban and Economic Geography (with a focus on Social, Economic, and Environmental Dynamics of Urban Transformations), Urban Poverty, Inequality, Housing for the Poor and Housing Rights, Slums, Migrants, Social and Environmental Justice, Urbanization and Land Use, Urban and Regional Governance, China, Asia-Pacific, Global South, and Emerging Countries.
