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Career profile

Suiwen (Sharon) Zou, PhD

Conservation Finance | Visitor Management on Public Lands | Tourism Development and Community Development

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Career path.

  1. UC Berkeley

    Visiting Scholar

    Aug 2025 - Present
  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Associate Professor

    Aug 2025 - Present
  3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Assistant Professor

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2025
  4. San Francisco State University

    Visiting Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism

    Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
  5. Temple University's School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management

    Postdoctoral Fellow, The U.S.-Asia Center for Tourism & Hospitality Research

    Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
  6. Texas A&M University - Mays Business School

    Lecturer

    Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
  7. Texas A&M University - Mays Business School

    Research Assistant

    Aug 2013 - Aug 2017