Affiliation: College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University

Email: juanlcau@qq.com

Nationality: Chinese

Juan Liu holds a PhD in Development Studies. She is an Associate Professor of Political Ecology and Agrarian Studies at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU) and a visiting scholar at the Department of Global Development, Cornell University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), and the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (ISS-EUR). She also serves as an Associate Editor for World Development. Her research interests span environmental justice, energy transitions, climate change, sustainability practices, migration and the left-behind population, the political economy of crop booms and land politics, and the political ecology of agriculture, food, and the environment.

She has co-authored the two-volume book Rural Revitalization: Farmers’ Perspectives (SSAP, 2023) and co-edited Beyond the Global Land Grab (Routledge, 2021) and Rural Transformations and Agro-Food Systems (Routledge, 2018). Her extensive publications include articles in international journals such as Global Environmental Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Science Advances. She has also co-edited four special issues as a guest editor for various peer-reviewed journals. Recognized for her scholarly contributions, she was named one of Elsevier's "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" in Sociology in both 2023 and 2024.