Sam Tynen, Ph.D.

https://samtynen.com

AREAS OF INTEREST

• China, Central Asia, post-Soviet borderlands
• Nationalism and state-building
• Authoritarianism and ethnic conflict
• Migration

EDUCATION

2012-2019 PhD, Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

RESEARCH GRANTS
2018       Gilbert F. White Doctoral Fellowship
2016-17  Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI 1633894), National Science Foundation
2014-17  Graduate Research Fellowship Program (DGE 1650115), National Science Foundation
2013        East Asia and Pacific Summer Intensive (EAPSI 1311118), National Science Foundation
2011-12  Fulbright Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Journal Articles

• Tynen, S. 2021. “’Keep Withstanding’: Territory in the Body, Home and Market in Xinjiang, China.” Political Geography 84. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102310.
• Tynen, S. 2020. “Dispossession and Displacement of Migrant Workers: The Impact of State Terror and Economic Development on Uyghurs in Urban Xinjiang.” Central Asian Survey. DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2020.1743644.
• Tynen, S. 2020. “State Territorialization through Shequ Community Centers: Bureaucratic Confusion in Xinjiang, China.” Territory, Politics, Governance 8 (1): 7-22. DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2019.1643778.
• Ryan, Caitlin and S. Tynen. 2020. “Fieldwork Under Surveillance: Rethinking Relations of Trust, Vulnerability, and State Power.” Geographical Review 110 (1-2): 38-51. DOI: 10.1111/gere.12360.
• Tynen, S. 2019. “Belonging between Inclusion and Exclusion: Dimensions of Ethno-Cultural Identity for Uyghur Women in Xinjiang, China.” Geopolitics.
• Tynen, S. 2019. “Lived Space of Urban Development: The Everyday Politics of Spatial Production in Nanjing, China.” Space and Culture 22 (2): 172-188.
• Guo, Huiling and S. Tynen. 2016. “Social Distance, Ethnicity, and Religion in Northwest China: A Survey of Inter- and Intra-Group Attitudes among Han, Hui, and Tibetan Students.” Eurasian Geography and Economics 56 (6): 679-712.

Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Work

• Tynen, S. A Diverse China: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Uyghur Life. London: IB Tauris.

Forthcoming Book

• Tynen, S. Fear, Hope and Survival in Xinjiang: Uyghur Life in China’s Military Police State. Bloomsbury Academic (November 3, 2022).

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Book Chapters

• Tynen, S. 2019. “Development and Inequality in Urban China: The Privatization of Homeownership and the Transformation of Everyday Practice.” In Neoliberal Urbanism: Contested Cities and Housing in Asia, edited by Yi-Ling Chen and Hyun Bang Shin, 147-170. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Other Scholarly Publications

• Tynen, S. 2019. “Uneven State Territorialization: Governance, Inequality, and Survivance in Xinjiang, China.” PhD dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Tynen, S. 2014. “Uneven Housing Development and the Spatial Negotiation of Class in Nanjing, China.” Master’s thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Tynen, S. 2011. “Ethno-Diplomacy and the International Uyghur Political Movement: The Puzzle of Chinese-Turkish Relations.” The Elliott School of International Affairs Undergraduate Scholars Journal 2: 20-45. The George Washington University: Washington, DC.

Book Reviews

• Tynen, S. 2020. “Uyghur Conceptions of Family and Society. By Xiaowei Zang. London: Routledge, 2017.” The Journal of Asian Studies 79, no. 4: 1004-1006.

Review Essays

• Tynen, S. 2021. “Islamophobia, Terrorism and the Uyghurs: When Minorities in China Find Themselves on the Wrong Side of the Counterterrorism Discourse.” Geopolitics. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2021.1924939.