Dandan Chen is a full professor in the Department of History, Politics, and Geography at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York, where she coordinates the Asian Studies minor and has taught in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society since 2013. She is also an Associate in Research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Inter-Civilizations Institute of East China Normal University, and the founder of the global scholarly platform "Global Studies Forum" (globalstudiesforum.com).

Dr. Chen's interdisciplinary areas of research and teaching include global and Asian history, Chinese history, politics, literature, and law in a global context. A bilingual writer, her articles have appeared in various journals. Her book Cultural Worlds of Late Ming-Early Qing and Late Qing-Early Republican China will be published in 2024. Dr. Chen has received awards including the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities (2022), the SUNY Nuala Drescher Award (2016), and the 2016 Academic Excellence Award from the AHA-affiliated society Chinese Historians in the United States.