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Chen, C. “Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises” (2008) Harvard University Press.


Chen, C. “Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises” (2008) Harvard University Press.


Received the Distinguished Civic Engagement Teaching Award from the Provost's Office at UMass.


Chumley, T., Feres, R., & Garcia German, L. A. (2021). Knudsen diffusivity in random billiards: spectrum, geometry, and computation. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20 (3), 1655–1682. doi: 10.1137/20M1349552


Chumley, T. & Feres, R. (2021). Entropy production in random billiards. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 41 (3), 1319-1346. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020319 

Chumley, T., Cook, S., Cox, C., & Feres, R. (2020). Rolling and no-slip bouncing in cylinders. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 12 (1), 53-84. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2020004


Was featured in the Mathematical Moments program of the American Mathematical Society. In the video interview, titled Exploring Thermodynamics with Billiards, he explains the connections between random billiards and the science of heat and energy transfer.


Was featured in the  (Lathisms) calendar in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.


Osborne, T., Cifuentes, S., et. al. (2024). Climate justice, forests, and Indigenous Peoples: toward an alternative to REDD+ for the Amazon. Climatic Change, 177(8), 1-28.


Cifuentes, S. (2023). Co-producing autonomy? Forest monitoring programs, territorial ontologies, and Indigenous politics in Amazonia. Digital Geography and Society, 5, 100068.