Cindy Fan is a professor in the department of geography and is professor and past chair of the department of Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her research has focused on population policy, labor migration, marriage migration, regional development, spatial and social inequality, gender, and cities in China. Professor Fan teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on China, population geography, and ethnicity. She is a co-editor of two major journals (Eurasian Geography and Economics and Regional Studies).

 

Professor Fan has published one book (China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the Household, London and New York: Routledge, 2008), one edited special issue, and numerous refereed articles on China. She is one of the most widely cited China geographers. Her research has been funded by four National Science Foundation grants and an award from the Luce Foundation. Professor Fan's work involves extensive international collaborations, fieldwork, and quantitative and qualitative analyses. Her current project focuses on how rural migrants and members of their families obtain the best of both worlds by straddling the city and countryside as well as the social and economic consequences of such strategy.