Rate My Professor Sarah Rogers

In her academic career at the University of Melbourne, she has held progressive roles from Research Fellow to Senior Lecturer and now Associate Professor within the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. Among her honors is the 2016 Dyason Fellowship. Rogers has made substantial contributions through key publications, including "The South–North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China" published in 2017, which explores how this massive engineering endeavor reshapes national geography; "Governmentality and the conduct of water: China's South–North Water Transfer Project" from 2016, analyzing governance mechanisms; the 2023 piece "Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics"; "In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms: smallholder pervasiveness in rural China" also 2023; "Apples and oranges: political crops with and against the state in rural China" in 2022; and "The fence ‘didn’t work’: the mundane engagements and material practices of state-led development in China’s Danjiangkou Reservoir" in 2022. These works delve into the everyday realities of policy implementation, smallholder persistence amid reforms, and the socio-material aspects of development. Her research output has accumulated over 1,500 citations on ResearchGate, affirming her impact on political geography, development studies, and contemporary China scholarship. Rogers also participates in public engagements, such as podcast episodes on China's water megaprojects.