Song Chen is an Associate Professor of Chinese History at Bucknell University, with a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2011. He specializes in social and cultural history during the Tang and Song dynasties, with a particular focus on the literati elite’s migration and marriage networks, local religion, and digital humanities. Professor Chen teaches pre-modern and modern Chinese history, historical sociology, and digital humanities, and engages students in various digital projects. In his teaching and research, he makes extensive use of digital methods, ranging from data mining and text analysis to network analysis and historical GIS.

Professor Chen serves the executive and steering committees of the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB). At Bucknell University, he also serves on the Steering Committee of the China Institute and the Digital Humanities Coordinating Committee. In 2021–2022, in collaboration with Professor Henrike Rudolph and Dr. Zhao Wei, he co-edited two special journal issues on network analysis: “Beyond Guanxi” for the Journal of Historical Network Research and “From Metaphor to Model: Network Analysis as an Approach to Research and Criticism” for the bilingual Journal of Digital Humanities jointly sponsored by Tsinghua University and Zhonghua Book Company.