Shen Hou was a Carson Fellow from February 2011 to July 2011 and from July 2013 to December 2013.
Shen Hou is currently an associate professor in the history department of Renmin University, Beijing, China. She worked with Prof. Donald Worster and received her PhD in American history from the University of Kansas in May 2008. Before she went to study in the US, she received an MA in ancient Chinese history from Central China Normal University in 2001, and a BA in history from CCNU 1999. After graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University, Beijing, from September 2008 to August 2010. Her book, The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013. Shen has published more than a dozen articles and translations on environmental history in Chinese and English. She is also translating Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West (by Donald Worster) into Chinese (Nanjing, China: Yilin Publisher).