Max Woodworth
Associate Professor
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:
Global coal transitions, urbanization in East Asia
Courses Taught:
GEOG 2100 - Introduction to Human Geography.
INTSTDS 2500 - Introduction to Development Studies.
GEOG 2750 - World Regional Geography.
GEOG 3701 - The Making of the Modern World.
GEOG 5503 - Urban China: Space, Place, and Urban Transformation.
Select Publications:
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.
Max D. Woodworth. 2019. “Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization in China’s Energy Frontier” in J. Cons and M. Eilenberg, eds., Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Antipode Book Series): 155-170.
Max D. Woodworth. 2019. “Finding a place for boomtowns in energy geographies,” Area (51)2: 307-314.
Max D. Woodworth. 2019. “Boomtown in Ruins: Ordos and Ruination,” International Institute for Asian Studies, The Newsletter, No. 82: 40.
Max D. Woodworth. 2019. “The Construction State 2.0: New Towns and the Local State in China,” Regions eZine, No. 3.
Max D. Woodworth. 2018. “Landscape and the cultural politics of China’s anticipatory urbanism,” Landscape Research 43(7): 891-905.
Shiuh-Shen Chien and Max D. Woodworth. 2018. “China’s Urban Speed Machine: The Politics of Speed and Time in a Period of Rapid Urban Growth,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42(4): 723-737.
