Mentoring Statement
Three goals guide Wan Yu’s teaching and mentoring philosophy:
- Encourage students to think from a geographic perspective and incorporate geographic tools into their research.
- Inspire students to engage with local communities through events and field-based projects.
- Foster open communication between students and instructors to support the achievement of learning objectives.
Biography
Publications
- Yu, Wan and Qingfang Wang. 2023. “,”&Բ;Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 21:1, 15-27.
- Lo, Lucia, Wei Li and Wan Yu. 2019. “Highly-skilled Migration from China and India to Canada and the United States” International Migration, 57 (3): 317-333.
- Li, Wei, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Wan Yu. 2018. “Return Migration and Transnationalism: Evidence from Highly Skilled Academic Migration”, Papers in Applied Geography, 4 (3): 243-255, DOI: 10.1080/23754931.2017.1396553
- Yu, Wan. 2017. “Mapping The Highly Skilled: Employment Situation and Geographical Distribution of Temporary Skilled Migrants In The United States”. Papers in Applied Geography 3(3): 211-225.
- Yu, Wan. 2016. “To Stay or To Return? Return Intentions and Return Migrations of Chinese Students During the Transition Period in The United States” Papers in Applied Geography 2 (2): 1-15.
Education
- PhD, Arizona State University
- MA, Miami University
- BS, Peking University
Research Interests
- Urban geography, race and ethnicity
- Highly skilled migration
Teaching Interests
- GEOG 259: Eastern Asia, Land and People
- GEOG 352: Population Geography
- GEOG 453: Asian Migration
- GEOG 534: Qualitative Methods