Max Woodworth
Associate Professor, Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, Research Associate Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1148 Derby Hall
154 North Oval Mall
Columbus OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Urban China
- Taiwan
- Urbanism
- City Planning
- Energy Resource Geography
Education
- Ph.D., 2013 Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., 2007 Asian Studies, University of California , Berkeley
- B.S., 1998 Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University
I am currently recruiting a graduate student under an NSF-funded project titled “Coordinating Global Coal Transitions Research.”
Current CV:
Interests:
Urbanization, Political economy, Energy geography, Resource geography
Current Research:
Urbanism and urbanization in East Asia
Taiwan urban historical geography and “military dependents villages”
New towns and boomtowns
Courses Taught:
GEOG 5503 - Urban China: Space, Place, and Urban Transformation
GEOG 2100 - Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 2750 - World Regional Geography
GEOG 3701 - The Making of the Modern World
INTSTDS/FILM STUDIES 3905 – The Developing World on Screen
INTSTDS 2500 - Introduction to Development Studies
Select Publications:
Max D. Woodworth. 2024. “Macro concerns in the study of the micropolitics of urban change.” Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206241228
Max D. Woodworth. 2023. “‘Freedom Cities’: Trump and an American global new city.” Urban Geography. Publishing online Oct. 2, 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2023.2263121
Max D. Woodworth. 2023. “Thinking ‘with’ China: Material and conceptual challenges.” Dialogues in Human Geography. Published online April 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820623117214
Max D. Woodworth and Shiuh-Shen Chien. 2022. “New Cities in China: Tracking Urban Projects on the City Fringe.” Geography Compass, published online https://doi-org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1111/gec3.12612
Max D. Woodworth. 2021. “Ruins, ruination, and fieldwork photography.” China Perspectives (4): 9-19.
Max D. Woodworth, Yu Zhou, Xuefei Ren, Yining Tan, Jesse Rodenbiker, Ettore Santi. In press. “Researching China during the Covid-19 Pandemic,” in Stanley Brunn and Donna Gilbreath (Eds.), Covid-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer.
Max D. Woodworth. 2020. “Picturing Urban China in Ruin: ‘ghost city’ photography and speculative urbanization.” GeoHumanities 6(2): 233-251.
Max D. Woodworth and Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi. 2020. “Introduction to the Special Issue: Exploring China’s Borderlands in a Time of BRI-Induced Change,” Eurasian Geography and Economics 61(1): 1-12.