Shengjun Zhu
Title：Associate Professor
Research Direction: economic geography
Department: Department of Urban and Economic Geography
Email：zhus@pku.edu.cn
Education and experience
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Geography, 2014
Dissertation: Go Up, Go West, and Go Out: Changing Industrial Policy and Firm Strategies in China’s Apparel Industry
Committee: John Pickles (Advisor/Chair), Gary Gereffi (Sociology), Meenu Tewari (Planning), Scott Kirsch, Elizabeth Havice
MS Peking University (Graduate with distinction)
Human Geography, 2009
Thesis: Regional Disparity of Geographical Agglomeration of China’s Manufacturing Industries
Advisor: Canfei He
BS Peking University (Graduate with distinction)
Human Geography, 2006
BA Peking University
Economics, 2006
Work Experience
Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor, 2022 to present
Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor, 2016 to 2022
Swansea University, Department of Geography
Head of Year One (undergraduate teaching and studying), 2015-2016
Swansea University, Department of Geography
Lecturer/Assistant Professor, 2014-2016
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography
Research Assistant, 2012–2014
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography
Teaching Assistant, 2009–2012
Research Direction
Economic geography