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 and John Chung-En Liu . 2024. "Overcoming stigma: How academic ghostwriting companies neutralize their services in Chinese and English markets." Higher Education. Forthcoming. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-023-01168-9 (SSCI)

  
  

  
  

  • 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.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073805932200164X (SSCI)

  
  

  • *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.(SSCI)
  
  
  • 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(Scopus).

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

• 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)