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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.
- UC Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
Aug 2025 - Present - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Associate Professor
Aug 2025 - Present - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor
Aug 2019 - Jul 2025 - San Francisco State University
Visiting Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 - 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 - Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
Lecturer
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017 - Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
Research Assistant
Aug 2013 - Aug 2017