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Max Woodworth

Max Woodworth

Max Woodworth

Contact Information

Assistant Professor

Email
Email Max Woodworth woodworth.42@osu.edu
Phone
Call Max Woodworth 614 292-2514
Office
1148 Derby Hall, 154 N Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210
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Areas of Expertise

  • Urban China
  • Taiwan
  • Urbanism
  • City Planning
  • Energy Resource Geography
  • Energy Transitions

Education

  • Ph.D., Geography, University of California - Berkeley
  • Master of Arts, Asian Studies, University of California - Berkeley
  • Bachelor of Science, Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University

Current Research

  • Urbanism and urbanization in East Asia
  • Taiwan urban historical geography and “military dependents villages”
  • New towns and boomtowns

 

Courses Taught

  • GEOG 2100: Introduction to Human Geography
  • GEOG 2750: World Regional Geography
  • GEOG 3701: The Making of the Modern World
  • GEOG 5503 : Urban China: Space, Place, and Urban Transformation
  • INTSTDS 2500: Introduction to Development Studies
  • INTSTDS/FILMSTDS 3905: The Developing World on Screen

 

Select Publications

Max D. Woodworth. 2024. “Macro concerns in the study of the micropolitics of urban change.” Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206241228

Max D. Woodworth. 2023. “‘Freedom Cities’: Trump and an American global new city.” Urban Geography. Publishing online Oct. 2, 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2023.2263121

Max D. Woodworth. 2023. “Thinking ‘with’ China: Material and conceptual challenges.” Dialogues in Human Geography. Published online April 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820623117214

Max D. Woodworth and Shiuh-Shen Chien. 2022. “New Cities in China: Tracking Urban Projects on the City Fringe.” Geography Compass, published online https://doi-org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1111/gec3.12612

Max D. Woodworth. 2021. “Ruins, ruination, and fieldwork photography.” China Perspectives (4): 9-19.

Max D. Woodworth, Yu Zhou, Xuefei Ren, Yining Tan, Jesse Rodenbiker, Ettore Santi. In press. “Researching China during the Covid-19 Pandemic,” in Stanley Brunn and Donna Gilbreath (Eds.), Covid-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer.

Max D. Woodworth. 2020. “Picturing Urban China in Ruin: ‘ghost city’ photography and speculative urbanization.” GeoHumanities 6(2): 233-251.

Max D. Woodworth and Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi. 2020. “Introduction to the Special Issue: Exploring China’s Borderlands in a Time of BRI-Indu