Xuefei Ren

Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective. She is the author of Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Urban China (Polity Press, 2013), and Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University Press, 2020). She is a professor of sociology and global urban studies at Michigan State University. She received her MA in urban planning from Tokyo Metropolitan University, and PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. She lives with her husband and daughter in Hyde Park, Chicago.