Matthew Drennan‘s paper, “Does public transit use enhance the economic efficiency of urban areas?” has been accepted for presentation at the World Symposium of Transport and Land Use Research in Whistler, British Columbia, in July, 2011.
Susanna Hecht was recently profiled in Conservation magazine about forest resurgence, and has a forthcoming profile in Yale Environment.
Min Zhou is currently conducting two research projects. One is on Africans in Guangzhou, China. She completed the first phase of her African migrants in Guangzhou project in summer 2010, focusing on racial attitudes of Guangzhou residents toward Africans and African migration into China. Data includes a questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and systematic field observations. She presented her work at UCLA Center for Chinese Studies symposium on March 7, 2011. She will continue to do the second phase of her research in summer 2011, focusing on African migrants’ attitudes toward Guangzhou residents and the city.
Zhou’s other project is on Chinese immigrant transnational organizations, which is drawing to a close. She presented a paper (with Portes), entitled “The Eagle and the Dragon: Immigrant Transnationalism and Development in Mexico and China” at the conference on Transnational Immigrant Networks at Princeton University, April 1-2, 2011; and will present another paper, entitled “Chinese Immigrant Transnationalism and Development in China” at the 2011 conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 20-21, 2011.