Ph.D. Sociology Department of Sociology, University at Albany-SUNY 2021
BA., Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua Unviersity 2012
- 2021 Doctoral Candidate Dissertation Award., Academia Sinica
- 2020 SSRC-Academia Sinica Publication Workshop Grant., Academia Sinca
- 2020 Distinguish Paper Award., Academia Sinca
- 2020 Visiting Fellow Award., The European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen
- 2019 Vice Provost Benevolent Association Research and Creative Activity Grant., University at Albany-SUNY.
- 2018 Graduate Student Association Research Grant., University at Albany-SUNY.
- Kenneth Han Chen. 2026. " Stabilizing Emotion, Structuring Aspiration: Taiwanese Language Coaching as Pre-Migration Protection". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.(in production)
- Kenneth Han Chen. 2026. "Admissibility for sale: judgment devices, merit, and the economy of self in global education". British Journal of Sociology of Education, 47(5): 995-1015.
- Kenneth Han Chen.2025. "From State Control to Market Governance: A Strategic Action Field Analysis of Taiwan's 1960-2020 Study Abroad System" Taiwanese Journal of Sociology. 78:95-144.
- Kenneth Han Chen and John Chung-En Liu . 2024. "Overcoming stigma: How academic ghostwriting companies neutralize their services in Chinese and English markets." Higher Education. 88:1255–1274.
- Kenneth Han Chen. 2023. "Pipelines of Schooling: Pathways to the United States and Rent-Seeking Practices by Education Agents." International Journal of Educational Development. 97: 102714.
- Kenneth Han Chen. 2022. “Cyber Divided: How Taiwanese International Students Make Identity Boundaries within Social Network Sites.” Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 14(2) :11-25.
- Kenneth Han Chen and Elizabeth Popp Berman. 2022. "Buying into the Meritocracy: Taiwanese Students and the Market for College Admissions Services." Sociology of Education, 95(1):23-42.
- Angie Chung,*Kenneth Han Chen, Gowoon Jung and Muyang Li.2018. “Thinking Outside the Box: The National Context for Educational Preparation and Adaptation among Chinese and Korean International Students.” Research in Comparative and International Education 13(3): 418-438.
Book Review
- Kenneth Han Chen. 2022. Review of Chasing the American Dream in China: Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland by Leslie Kim Wang. Contemporary Sociology 51(5): 422-425.(SSCI)
Book Chapter
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Kenneth Han Chen. Forthcoming. “Education consultants’ work and international education: an examination of the technical and emotional dimensions” In Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Challenges and Best Practices, edited by Pii-Tuulia Nikula, Vincenzo Raimo and Eddie West. Routledge.
- Kenneth Han Chen. 2022. "The Do's and Don't of Educational Commodities: PTT STUDYABROAD forum and The Business of International Education". Streetcorner Sociology.https://twstreetcorner.org/2022/10/13/kenneth-han-chen/
- Kenneth Han Chen 2019. “The Critical Functions of Taiwanese Education Agents During the Era of Commercialization in Global Higher Education,” Taiwan Insight Digest Special Issue: 2019 North American Taiwan Study Association (NATSA) Conference. Available online at https://taiwaninsight.org/2019/09/25/the-critical-functions-of-taiwanese-education- agents-during-the-era-of-commercialisation-in-global-higher-education/.
- Chen, K., and Jung, G. 2018. “Migration Consultant Activity and Lecture.” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. Available online at http://trails.asanet.org/Pages/Resource.aspx?ResourceID= 13576
Under Review
- Chen, K. "Market rent-seekers in international education: analyzing Taiwan's education agent’s industry with economic sociology perspective” (Revise and Resubmit).
- Chen, K. “Authenticity Crafting and Taiwanese Education Agents Industry” (Under Review ).
- Chen, K., and John Chung-En Liu. “"The-Write-Way": The Moralized Market of International Education Consultants in Taiwan” (Under Review).
Working Paper
- Chen, K. and John Chung-En Liu. "Analyzing Stigma Management in Academic Ghostwriting” (Working Paper).
- Tu, S. and Chen K. “Capitalizing Uncertainty: A comparative case of transnational higher education agents in Taiwan and China” (Working Paper)