Prof. Dr. KuoRay Mao currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. As a green criminologist specializing in environmental governance and natural resource management in an illiberal context, he studies the complicated relationship between economic development, environmental degradation, and the regulatory regime of the global capitalist system. He has examined the institutional factors that have perpetuated environmental harm throughout China’s most vulnerable populations, as well as the state and public responses to green victimization in China and East Asia. He was awarded the Community Action Research Initiative (CARI) Award from the American Sociological Association in 2015, the 2016 Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award from the Western Social Sciences Association, the 2019 Best Journal Article Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, the 2020 Best Teacher Award from the CSU Alumni Association, and the American Regions Scholar Grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange in 2021. His most recent research examines how resource governance in a state corporatist model interacts with community apathy toward environmental hazards and pollution.