Chien-Juh Gu

Dr. Chien-Juh Gu is a Professor of Sociology at WMU and Fulbright Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria. Gu specializes in gender, social psychology, immigration, and health. She is the author of The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans (Rutgers University, 2018) and Mental Health among Taiwanese Americans: Gender, Immigration, and Transnational Struggles (LFB, 2006). Gu’s recent research examines the social adaptation of Burmese Christian Refugees in Michigan. She is working on a new project that examines women’s resistance against the overtreatment of breast cancer.