Education: BA, Geography, University of Hong Kong 1981; MPhil, Geography, Chinese University of Hong Kong 1984; PhD, Geography, Ohio State University 1989

Career: C. Cindy Fan is Professor in the Department of Geography and Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She began her career as a teacher at St Paul's Convent School in Hong Kong from 1981–82. She was then a teaching assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1982–85. Following her move to the United States, she became a Graduate Teaching and Research Associate at Ohio State University in 1985. In 1989 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Geography at UCLA and Associate Professor of Geography from 1995–2001. She was Chair of the Asian American Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA from 1997–2001. She has been Professor of Geography at UCLA since 2001 and Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies since 2005. Her research interests include population geography, regional development, post-Mao China (regional policy, migration, inequality, gender), ethnicity and quantitative methods. Professor Fan was editor of Eurasian Geography and Economics from 2001–05 and has been Senior Contributing Editor since 2006. She has been a member of the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly since 1999, and of China: An International Journal and Geographical Analysis since 2002. C. Cindy Fan is co-editor of Regional Studies (see url below).

Publications include: numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of Asian American Studies, UCLA, 1255 Bunche Hall, Box 951524, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524, USA; Tel: +1 310-825-3821; Fax: +1 310-206-5976; Email: fan@geog.ucla.edu ; Website: http://www.geog.ucla.edu/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00343404.asp/ .