SHENGLIN CHANG,Ph.D Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture

Shenglin Chang received her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2000, and is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland’s Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. She received the 2004 CELA Award of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching in Landscape Architecture (CELA – Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture). She is currently researching the transformations of Asian and Latino immigrants’ lifestyles and identities in the suburban DC-Maryland region. Her most recent essays are: "Transcultural Home Identity Across the Pacific," in Urban Ethnic Encounters (Routledge, 2002); “Breaking Silicon Silence,” in Challenging the Chip (Temple, forthcoming); and, “Home here, Home There,” in Landscape Review 9(1). She has edited and co-authored two books (translated into Chinese) with Randy Hester: Living Landscape and It is Legitimate to Build Community. Her teaching focuses on issues related to landscape and identity across world cultures. Meanwhile, she is working on her manuscript, The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes Within Trans-Pacific Commuter Cultures.

Chang’s EAST teaching module, “Blowing in the Western Wind,” has been taught in Landscape And Identity: Placemaking Across World Cultures (Larc 489P), Spring 2004. Within the module, students were role-playing the international consultant teams to investigate the social and environmental impacts of high-tech landscape developments (science parks and IT engineers’ suburban communities) in China and Taiwan. Based on group research and analysis, each consultant team presented their alternative design proposals that were culturally sensitive and environmentally sustainable.