Dandan Chen is currently a full professor in the department of History, Politics, and Geography at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York, the coordinator for the Asian Studies Minor, and has taught for the department of Science, Technology, and Society since 2013. She is an Associate in Research at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Inter-Civilizations Institute of East China Normal University, and the founder of the global scholarly platform “Global Studies Forum”(globalstudiesforum.com) and "International Association for Law & Interdisciplinary Studies”(lawandinterdisciplinarystudies.com) . Dr. Chen’s interdisciplinary areas of research and teaching include global and Asian history, Chinese history, politics, literature and law in a global context. A bilingual writer, her articles have appeared in various journals. Her book Cultural Worlds of Late Ming-Early Qing and Late Qing-Early Republican China is forthcoming in 2024. Dr. Chen has received awards including the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities(2022), the SUNY Nuala Drescher Award (2016), and the 2016 Academic Excellence Award from Chinese Historians in the United States.