DR.

HENRYK L SZADZIEWSKI
CURRICULUM VITAE
September 2022
University of Hawai'i Mānoa PO Box 377280
2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall 445 92-807 Kamaaina Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Ocean View, HI 96737, USA
Tel: +1-808-9568465 Tel: +1-703-7278495, henryksz@hawaii.edu

EDUCATION
2022 Ph.D. (GPA 4.0), Department of Geography and Environment, University of
Hawai'i Mānoa. Dissertation: Everyday Geoeconomics Along the Maritime Silk
Road: Entrepreneurial Encounters in Fiji (Advisor, Professor Mary Mostafanezhad)
2022 Graduate Certificate, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i
Mānoa
2018 M.A., Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2007 M.Sc. Econ. (Awarded with Distinction), Centre for Development Studies,
University of Wales
1993 B.A. Honours, East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, Beijing Foreign Studies
University
2002 Postgraduate Diploma, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages,
Trinity College, London
1998 Postgraduate Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages,
Trinity College, London

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022-Present Lecturer, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawai'i
Mānoa, Honolulu
2008-Present Director of Research, Uyghur Human Rights Project, Washington, DC
2019-2021 Research Affiliate, School of Government, Development and International Affairs,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
2016-2018 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography and Environment, University of
Hawai'i Mānoa, Honolulu
2004-2008 Adjunct Professor, College Preparatory & Developmental Studies, The University
of Alaska, Anchorage
2002-2004 Teacher, Teacher Trainer and External Examiner, The British Council, Caracas,
Venezuela
1999-2002 Teacher and External Examiner, Latin America British Cultural Institutes,
Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru
1998-1999 Teacher, Department of Languages, Heilongjiang International University, Harbin,
China
1994-1997 Teacher, Department of Languages, Kashgar University, Kashgar, China
1993-1994 Teacher, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Tresham College of Further and
Higher Education, Wellingborough, United Kingdom

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PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2022 With Mostafanezhad, M., and Murton, G. “Territorialization on Tour:
The Tourist Gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China.” Geoforum.
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.010.
2021 “Everyday geoeconomics: The Belt and Road Initiative in Oceania,” Geographical
Research. DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12473.
2021 “The Proliferation of External Geographies in Oceania: ‘It is Nice to be Relevant.’”
Australian National University, Department of Pacific Affairs, In Brief, 2021/34.
DOI: 10.25911/0PAP-B181.
2020 “Converging Anticipatory Geographies in Oceania: The Belt and Road Initiative
and Look North in Fiji,” Political Geography, 77, pp.102-119. DOI:
10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102119.
2020 “Reverse Image Engineering: Unfinished and Failed Chinese Infrastructure
Projects in Fiji,” Outre-Terre Revue Européenne de Géopolitique, 2020/1 (N° 58).
DOI: 10.3917/oute2.058.0274.
2020 “Marginalized in their Homeland: Economic Discrimination Among Uyghurs in
Xinjiang from 2000-2014,” Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, 24(1-2).
2019 “The Push for a Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act in the United States: Recent
Developments in Uyghur Activism,” Asian Ethnicity, 21(2), pp. 211-222. DOI:
10.1080/14631 DOI: 369.2019.1605497.
2015 “The Uyghurs Are Not an Ignored People.” Turkish Review, 5(1), pp.81-84.
2011 “Commanding the Economy: The Recurring Patterns of Chinese Central
Government Development Planning among Uyghurs in Xinjiang,” Inner Asia, 13(1),
pp.97-116. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24572137.
2009 “How the West was Won: China’s Expansion into Central Asia,” Caucasian Review
of International Affairs, 3(2), pp.210-218.

Book Chapters
2022 “Agents of the Belt and Road Initiative or Agents of Agency?
Fijian State and Civil Society Perceptions of Chinese Companies,” The China
Question: Contestations and Adaptations, D. Pavlićević and N. Talmacs (eds.),
Berlin: Springer.
2022 “Melanesian Self-Reliance Discourses and Chinese Investment: The Ramu Nickel
Mine in Papua New Guinea,” China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions, T.
Tudoroiu and A. Kuteleva (eds.), Berlin: Springer.
2021 With Mostafanezhad, M. “Weaponizing Tourism: Infrastructure, Securitization,
and State-Building Along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Xinjiang, China,” The
Geopolitics of Tourism: Assemblages of Power, Mobility & the State, M.
Mostafanezhad and M. Córdoba Azcárate (eds.), Tucson: University of Arizona
Press.
2021 “A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands,” The
China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands, T. Wesley-Smith
and G. Smith (eds.), Canberra: Australian National University.

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2020 With Mawyer, A., Hereniko, V., Kabutaulaka, T., Teaiwa, K., Wesley-Smith, T. et al.
Introduction to Pacific Studies. Volume 6 of Teaching Oceania Series, A. Mawyer
(ed.). Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i Mānoa.
2018 With Seytoff, A. “Exclusion and Discrimination of the Uyghurs in China,” Routledge
Handbook of Human Rights in Asia, F. de Varennes and C. M. Gardiner (eds.),
London: Routledge.
2013 “The Open Up the West Campaign among Uyghurs in Xinjiang,” On the Fringes of
the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China, T. Brox and I.
Bellér-Hann (eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press.
2013 “Anyone but China,” The Blizzard, J. Wilson (ed.), Sunderland: Blizzard Media.
2012 “Resolving Uyghur Conflict through a Participatory Rights-based Approach to
Development,” Conflict and Peace in Eurasia, D. A. Mahapatra (ed.), London:
Routledge.

Conference Proceedings
2021 “Look North, The Belt and Road Initiative, and Discourse Convergence in Fiji,”
Indo-Pacific Area and Silk Roads: The New World Strategies,
J. Regnault and S. Alwardi (eds.), Tahiti: University of French Polynesia.

Book Reviews
2018 Review of Inside Xinjiang: Space, Place and Power in China’s Muslim
Far Northwest, by A. Hayes and M. Clarke (eds.), The China Journal, 79, pp.165-
166.
2016 Review of Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National
Interest, c. 1900-1949, by O. Klimeš, New Books Asia. https://newbooks.asia/
review/uyghur-discourse.
2014 Review of The Art of Symbolic Resistance by J. Smith Finley, Asia Sentinel,
September 12. https://www.asiasentinel.com/book-review/book-review-art-
symbolic-resistance/.
2013 Review of Chinese Migrants in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, by F. B.
Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang (eds.), Journal of International and Global
Studies, 4(2), pp.102-104.
2011 Review of The Tree that Bleeds, by N. Holdstock, Asia Sentinel,
September 16. https://www.asiasentinel.com/book-review/book-review-
crackdown-on-chinas-uyghurs/.
2011 Review of The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat, by J.
T. Reed and D. Raschke, Asia Sentinel, January 13. https://www.asiasentinel.com/
society/book-review-the-mystery-of-the-east-turkestan-islamic-movement/.
2010 Szadziewski, H. Review of The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land, by G.
Bovingdon, Asia Sentinel, September 24. https://uhrp.org/uhrp-news-books-
uyghurs/book-review-uyghurs-under-siege.
2010 Review of Popular Protest in China, by K. J. O’Brien (ed.), Europe-Asia
Studies, 62(6), pp.1034-1035.

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Manuscripts in Submission and Preparation
In submission “China in the Pacific Islands,” The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, Revised
and Updated Edition. Book Chapter.
In preparation “Mapping Chinese Fiji: Entrepreneurial Encounters Along the Maritime Silk Road.”
Book.
In preparation “Adrift in the Pacific: United States Policy Responses to China’s Presence in
Oceania.” Journal Article.

Web-Based Publications (Selected)

2022 “How China’s presence has grown in the Pacific in the past decade,” 360info, July
11. https://360info.org/how-chinas-presence-has-grown-in-the-pacific-in-the-
past-decade/.
2022 “Finding the Pacific in the ‘Indo-Pacific,’” Policy Forum, Asia and the Pacific Policy
Society, March 22. https://www.policyforum.net/finding-the-pacific-in-the-indo-
pacific/.
2022 With Cecil, W. and Saluga, S. “Let the Athletes Dissent Against China,” Law &
Liberty, January 14. https://lawliberty.org/let-the-athletes-dissent-against-china/.
2021 “Meet the New Uyghurs,” The Diplomat, December 21. https://thediplomat.com/
2021/12/meet-the-new-uyghurs/.
2020 “Uyghurs Without Passports: Forced Legibility and Illegibility,” The Geopolitics,
May 12. https://thegeopolitics.com/uyghurs-without-passports-forced-legibility-
and-illegibility/.
2019 “East Turkistan, West Papua and an Extraordinary Game of Football,” The
Diplomat, October 16. https://thediplomat.com/2019/10/east-turkistan-west-
papua-and-an-extraordinary-game-of-football/.
2019 With Steinhoff, P. and Yang Ryan, S. “China’s abuse of Uyghur intellectuals worries
University of Hawai'i friends,” Honolulu Star Advertiser, June 25.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/06/25/editorial/island-voices/chinas-
abuse-of-uyghur-intellectuals-worries-uh-friends/.
2019 “Disappeared Forever? The Persecution of Uyghur Intellectuals,” Los Angeles
Review of Books, February 21. https://chinachannel.org/2019/02/21/uighur-
eliticide/.
2018 “‘Purify’ or Perish: The Vulnerable Lives of China’s Uyghur Scholars,” Hong Kong
Free Press, November 10. https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/11/10/purify-
perish-vulnerable-lives-chinas-uyghur-scholars/.
2014 With Fay, G. “How China Dismantled the Uyghur Internet,” The Diplomat, July 22.
https://thediplomat.com/2014/07/how-china-dismantled-the-uyghur-internet/.
2014 “Uyghur Rights and China,” openDemocracy, January 15.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uyghur-rights-and-china/.
2013 “Red Tape: Chinese Government Regulation of Uyghur Religious Freedom,” World
Policy, May 20. https://worldpolicy.org/2013/05/20/red-tape-chinese-
government-regulation-of-uyghur-religious-freedom/.
2012 “Kashgar's Old City: The Endgame,” openDemocracy, May 22. https://www.
opendemocracy.net/en/kashgars-old-city-endgame/.

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2011 “The Uyghurs, China and Central Asia,” openDemocracy, July 26.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uyghurs-china-and-central-asia/.
2010 “Kashgar’s Old City: Landscape of Loss,” openDemocracy, March 24.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/kashgars-old-city-landscape-of-loss//.
2009 “Kashgar’s Old City: The Politics of Demolition,” openDemocracy, April 3.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/kashgar-s-old-city-the-politics-of-
demolition/.

Research Reports/Other Publications (Selected)

2021 “Meet the ‘New’ Uyghurs: CGTN’s Role in Mediawashing Genocide,” Uyghur
Human Rights Project, December 21. https://uhrp.org/wp-content/uploads/
2021/12/Meet-the-New-Uyghurs-Report-Formatted_2021-12-20-1.pdf.
2020 “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” Uyghur Human
Rights Project, April 1. https://docs.uhrp.org/pdf/Weaponized_Passports.pdf.
2020 With Anderson, E. and Morgret, N. “‘Ideological Transformation’: Records of Mass
Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, February 18.
https://docs.uhrp.org/pdf/UHRP_QaraqashDocument.pdf.
2018 “The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region: Disappeared
Forever?” Uyghur Human Rights Project, October 22. https://docs.uhrp.org/pdf/
UHRP_Disappeared_Forever.pdf.
2018 “The Mass Internment of Uyghurs: ‘We want to be respected as humans. Is it too
much to ask?’” Uyghur Human Rights Project, August 23. https://docs.uhrp.org/
pdf/MassDetention_of_Uyghurs.pdf.
2017 “End of the Road: One Belt, One Road and the Cumulative Economic
Marginalization of the Uyghurs,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, March 3.
https://uhrp.org/docs/End-of-the-Road.pdf.
2016 With Fay, G. “Without Land, There Is No Life: Chinese State Suppression of Uyghur
Environmental Activism,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, July 20.
https://docs.uhrp.org/pdf/Without-land-there-is-no-life.pdf.
2016 “China's New Counter-Terrorism Law and Its Human Rights Implications for the
Uyghur People,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, February 1. https://tinyurl.com/
yc6b8gsf.
2014 With Fay, G. “Trapped in a Virtual Cage: Chinese State Repression of Uyghurs
Online,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, June 16. https://docs.uhrp.org/Trapped-
in-A-Virtual-Cage.pdf.
2013 With Fay, G. “Sacred Right Defiled,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, April 30.
https://docs.uhrp.org/Sacred-Right-Defiled-Chinas-Iron-Fisted-Repression-of-
Uyghur-Religious-Freedom.pdf.
2012 With Reger, A. “Uyghur Homeland, Chinese Frontier: The Xinjiang Work Forum
and Centrally Led Development,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, June 27.
https://docs.uhrp.org/Uyghur-homeland-Chinese-Frontier.pdf.
2012 With Reger, A. “Living on the Margins: The Chinese State's Demolition of Uyghur
Communities,” Uyghur Human Rights Project, April 2. https://docs.uhrp.org/3-30-
Living-on-the-Margins.pdf.

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2011 With Reger, A. “They Can't Send Me Back: Uyghur Asylum Seekers in Europe,”
Uyghur Human Rights Project, September 20. https://docs.uhrp.org/UHRP-report-
Uyghur-asylum-seekers-in-Europe.pdf.
2010 With Reger, A. “Can Anyone Hear Us: Voices from the 2009 Unrest in Urumchi,”
Uyghur Human Rights Project, July 1. http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/Can-
Anyone-Hear-Us.pdf.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2022 Bowers Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2022 Graduate Research Award, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2021 Graduate Research Award, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2020 Political Geography Early Career Researcher Paper Award
2020 Graduate Research and Travel Award, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2019 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award, Fulbright
2019 Achievement Scholarship, Graduate Division, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2019 Department Achievement Scholarship, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2019 Graduate Research and Travel Award, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2018 Travel Award, Journal of Pacific History
2018 Department Achievement Scholarship, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2018 Student Travel Award, American Association of Geographers, Political Geography
Specialty Group
2018 Graduate Research and Travel Award, Department of Geography, University of
Hawai'i Mānoa
2018 Travel Award, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i Mānoa

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2021 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2021 Dai Ho Chun Graduate Fellowship, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2020 Dai Ho Chun Graduate Fellowship, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2019 Graduate Fellowship Fund, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i,
2018 Travel Grant, Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawai'i Mānoa,
$799
2018 Travel Grant, Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawai'i Mānoa, $658
2018 Graduate Fellowship Fund, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i,
$1,900

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2017 Travel Grant, Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawai'i Mānoa, $800
2016-2017 Graduate Student Assistantship, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
2004-2007 Taught Masters Bursary, University of Wales, Swansea

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2018 “Silk Road Century? China’s Past, Present and Future in Oceania,” Pacific History
Association, Biennial Conference, December 3-5, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, UK. (T. Wesley-Smith and T. Kabutaulaka, co-organizers).
2017 “Staging the Nation: Tourism and the Geopolitical Gaze,” American Association of
Geographers, Annual Meeting, April 5-9, Boston, MA, United States. (S. Sakuma,
co-organizer).

Papers Presented
2022 “Reverse Image Engineering: Incomplete Belt and Road Initiative Projects in
Melanesia,” Assessment of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, The Belt and Road
Peripheral Imaginaries: Evidence From The Developing World, May 5-6, University
of Virginia.
2022 “Agents of the Belt and Road Initiative or Agents of Agency? Chinese Companies
in Fiji,” American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting, February 25-
March 1, New York, NY.
2022 With Mostafanezhad, M. and Murton, G. “Territorialization on Tour: The Tourist
Gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China,” AAG Political
Geography Specialty Group, Preconference, February 18, Virtual.
2021 “Agents of the Belt and Road Initiative or Agents of Agency? Chinese Companies
in Oceania,” China in the Maritime Pacific, July 26-19, University of New South
Wales, Canberra.
2019 “Converging Anticipatory Geographies in Oceania: The Belt and Road Initiative
and Look North in Fiji,” Indo-Pacific Area and Silk Roads: The New World
Strategies, November 5-7, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0E5n1km53.
2019 “A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands,” The
University of the South Pacific, Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University
of Hawai'i Mānoa, and the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National
University, Symposium: The China Alternative - Changing Regional Order in the
Pacific, February 8, University of the South Pacific, Emalus Campus, Port Vila,
Vanuatu.
2018 “A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands,”
Pacific History Association, Biennial Conference, December 3-5, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2018 “Chinese Aid and Investment in Fiji: Belt and Road Initiative or Look
North?” American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting, April 10-14, New
Orleans, LA.

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2016 “Uyghur Asylum Seekers Since 2009: An Overview,” Unrepresented Nations and
Peoples Organization, the World Uyghur Congress and the Society for Threatened
Peoples, The Rights of Uyghur Refugees: Past and Present Challenges, April 25-26,
Berlin, Germany.
2015 “Uyghur Asylum Seekers Since 2009: Observations from Within the
Diaspora,” Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Central Asia Program at the
George Washington University, Second International Conference on Uyghur
Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, November 17-20, Brussels, Belgium.
2014 “The Policy Debate,” Central Asia Program, Institute for European, Russian and
Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
University, First International Conference on Uyghur Studies– History, Culture, and
Society, September 25-27, Washington, DC.
2013 “A Grassroots‐State Approach to Western Development in the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region,” The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies (CCCS), Asia
Institute, at the University of Melbourne, and School of Sociology and Population
Studies at Renmin University of China, 2013 Melbourne-Renda International
Conference: Social Transformation and Policy in 21st Century China, August 12-13,
Melbourne, Australia.
2012 “Loyal Supporters? Soccer and the Modern Uyghur Identity,” The Association for
the Study of Nationalities, 2012 World Convention, April 19-21, Columbia
University, New York City, NY.
2011 “The Importance of Kashgar for Turkic Uyghur Identity,” Unrepresented Nations
and Peoples Organization and the Belgian Uyghur Association. The City
of Kashgar: An Oasis of the Silk Road on the Brink of Extinction, January
27, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
2010 “The Uyghur Experience of the ‘Open Up the West’ Campaign in Xinjiang:
Exploring State and Ethnic Minority Partnership as a Model for Economic
and Social Development,” Asian Dynamics Institute, University of
Copenhagen, Asian Diversity in a Global Context: State Policy and Local Responses
in China’s West, November 11-13, Copenhagen, Denmark.

INVITED TALKS
2022 “A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands.”, The
China Alternative - Book Launch and Panel Discussion, May 25, Department of
Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.
2020 “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Oceania: Context, Practice, and New
Perspectives.” School of Government, Development, and International Affairs
(SGDIA) Seminar Series, February 13, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
2014 “The Uyghurs: An Identity Crisis in China’s Borderlands” (Keynote). Central and
Southwest Asian Studies, University of Montana, 12th Annual Central and
Southwest Asia Conference, April 22-24, Missoula, MT.
2012 “Uyghurs, China and Islam: A Human Rights Overview.” Muslim Students
Association, Islam Awareness Week, March 28, George Mason University, Fairfax,
VA.

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CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2021 With Kabutaulaka, T. and Li, C. “China and Changing Geopolitics in Oceania,”
Mānoa International Education Week, November 18. University of Hawai’i Mānoa.
2021 “Tweets from the Field,” Department of Geography and Environment, University
of Hawai'i Mānoa, Virtual Symposium, May 8.
2020 With Fox J., Noor, E., Mostafanezhad, M. and Wang X. “China’s Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) and Southeast Asia and Future Prospects,” Crossing Borders:
International Affairs between China and Southeast Asia, Fall 2020 Roundtable
Series, September 16. Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for Chinese
Studies, University of Hawai’i Mānoa and the East-West Center.
2017 “The Geopolitical Discourse of Chinese Investment in Oceania: The Ramu Nickel
Mine, Papua New Guinea,” Department of Geography and Environment,
University of Hawai'i Mānoa, Spring Symposium, May 5, Honolulu, HI.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Hawai'i Mānoa
Lecturer Geography of China (Summer 2022)
Teaching Assistant World Regional Geography, University of Hawai'i Mānoa (Fall 2016, Spring
2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

University of Alaska Anchorage

Adjunct Professor College Grammar I (Summer 2004, Spring 2008), College Grammar II
(Summer 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008),
Grammar and Sentence Skills (Spring 2005), Oral Fluency II (Spring 2008),
Vocabulary Enhancement II (Spring 2008)

RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

2014 Using Geospatial Technologies for Human Rights Documentation and Litigation,
workshop organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) in Washington, DC.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Peer reviewer for academic journals, including ACME (2019-20); Geopolitics (2018-19); Territory,
Politics, Governance (2020); Asian Ethnicity (2019); Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences (2020); Island Studies Journal (2020); Journal of Public Affairs (2021); Journal of
Contemporary Asia (2021); International Migration (2022); Journal of Contemporary China
(2022); Asia Pacific Law Review (2022).
Co-editor of book: Kadeer, R. and Cavelius, A. (2009). Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic
Struggle for Peace with China. Kales Press.

DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Mentor for incoming graduate students at the Department of Geography and Environment,
University of Hawai'i Mānoa

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Country of Origin Information Expert on Uyghurs for the Rights in Exile Programme, 2014 to
Present
Expert on Uyghurs for Dutch Council for Refugees, 2014 to Present
Volunteer Researcher for Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, 2020 to
Present
Volunteer Advisor for the Ilham Tohti Initiative, 2021 to Present

MEDIA COVERAGE
Interviewee for broadcast, digital and print media, including The New York Times, Time, Deutsche
Welle, C-SPAN, University World News, Voice of America, Pacific Standard, Public Radio
International, Foreign Policy, Reuters, Business Insider, ThinkTech Hawaii

LANGUAGES
English, speaking: native, reading: native, writing: native.
Mandarin Chinese, speaking: advanced, reading: advanced, writing: intermediate.
Uyghur, speaking: intermediate, reading: advanced, writing: intermediate.
Mongolian, speaking: intermediate, reading: intermediate, writing: intermediate
Polish, speaking: heritage, reading: heritage, writing: heritage.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Geographers, 2016; Pacific History Association, 2018; Association for
Asian Studies, 2019; Fulbright Association, 2020; Royal Geographic Society, Associate Fellow,
2021

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