Quinnipiac University
Xi Chen

Professor of Sociology

Chair of Sociology and Anthropology

Professor Chen’s areas of expertise include social inequality, research methodology, demography, spatial analysis, applications of remote sensing data and Chinese ethnic studies. She co-manages the Yale G-Econ Project (https://gecon.yale.edu/) with the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Economics, William Nordhaus.

Her research has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), ASA's Sociological Methodology, the journal Remote Sensing, the journal Spatial Demography, Journal of Economic Geography, the journal Society and Natural Resources, and Asian Ethnicity, amongst other places.