Faculty

RecipientProject TitleYear
Jianqing FanFan engaged in international travel, mainly to Europe, to present his work on economics, finance, and data science.2022
Naima Green-RileyProjects that specialize in diplomacy, Chinese foreign policy, and US-China relations, with a focus on public diplomacy and the global information space2022
Xu XuBook: Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance2022
Jerry ZeeHow anti-desertification and sand-control campaigns in China have engendered experiments in local government in China2022
Yu XieResearch related to China Family Panel Studies2022
Rory TruexSurveys: “Public and University Student’s Personality and Attitudes Towards Social Justice”; “The Psychology of Authoritarian Rule”; “How Propaganda Works”; “The Dictator is Me: Nation, Regime, and Self-Concept”; and “Personality, Dissent, and Indoctrination.”2021
Janet ChenCompleting The Sounds of Mandarin and new project on the history of Hainan Island2021
Jianqing Fan“Learning Latent Factors from Diversified Projections and its Applications’’2021
Deborah KapleLet’s Be Modern and Soviet! The Sino-Soviet Effort to Build Communism in China, 1949–602021
Steve KotkinFinal volume of his Stalin and the World series2021
Stephen F. Teiser“How Buddhism and Chinese Religion are Studied in the Contemporary Chinese University"2021
Yu XiePublishing a number of research papers on such topics as trends in intergenerational mobility; educational inequality; demographic behaviors and outcomes; socioeconomic differentials in health, child development, and wealth inequality and their consequences in China2021
Rory TruexEngaged in surveys: “Public and University Student’s Personality and Attitudes Towards Social Justice”; “The Psychology of Authoritarian Rule”; “How Propaganda Works”; “The Dictator is Me: Nation, Regime, and Self-Concept”; and “Personality, Dissent, and Indoctrination"2020
Janet ChenCompleting a book manuscript, Sounds of Mandarin, and launching a new research project on the history of Hainan Island2020
Jianqing FanLed a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics on August 28, 2019 on “Learning Latent Factors from Diversified Projections and its Applications,’’ participated in a workshop, “Time Series, Wavelets and High Dimensional Data,” at Campinas, Brazil, on August 29-30, 2019, and attended “The 18th Time Series and Econometrics Meeting” at Gramado, Brazil on September 3-5, 20192020
Steven Kotkinthe final volume of his Stalin and the World series2020
Yu XieInitiated several research projects, including “Attitudes toward China,” and “Chinese Attitudes to the United States.” Released a number of research papers related to the China Family Panel Studies.2020
Stephen F. TeiserProject: “How Buddhism and Chinese Religion are Studied in the Contemporary Chinese University"2020
Rory TruexEngaged in several surveys: Public and University Student’s Personality and Attitudes Towards Social Justice; The Psychology of Authoritarian Rule;How Propaganda Works; The Dictator is Me: Nation, Regime, and Self-Concept; and Personality, Dissent, and Indoctrination2019
Janet ChenCompleting a book manuscript The Sounds of Mandarin and launching a new research project on the history of Hainan Island2019
Jianqing FanDeveloping statistical machine-learning tools for analyzing big data on Chinese society  2019
Steve KotkinFinal volume of his Stalin and the World series2019
Stephen F. Teiser“How Buddhism and Chinese Religion are Studied in the Contemporary Chinese University"2019
Yu XieReleasing a number of research papers related to the China Family Panel Studies2019
Deborah Kaple“China’s Experience with Soviet Friendship, 1949-1962"2019
Janet ChenThe Sounds of Mandarin, a book project on the social history of how people in China and Taiwan learned to speak a new national language in the twentieth century. 2018
Jianqing FanDevelop statistical machine learning tools for analyzing Big Data that are directly related to Chinese Society.  He will addresses several challenges that are inherent to the analysis of big data:  heterogeneity, endogeneity, spurious correlation, robustness, privacy, and computation via developing new generations of statistical methods.  These techniques will be investigated and employed to study the risks of financial systems and other societal problems in China.2018
Deborah KapleChina’s Experience with Soviet Friendship, 1949-19622018
Steve KotkinStalin and the World Series, research into authoritarian regimes, including China2018
Martha SandweissCultural Resource Development in Guizhou Province2018
Stephen F. TeiserExamine how Buddhism and Chinese religion are studied in the contemporary Chinese university2018
Rory TruexPublic and university student’s personality and attitudes towards social justice, among other research projects2018
Yu XieCollection of Social Survey Data on Chinese Society2018

Undergraduate Students

RecipientProgramProject TitleFiscal Year
Sheherzad JamalInternshipsAmerican Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan2022
Samuel Chang, David SongInternshipsChina Market Research Group (CMR)2022
Zi LiuInternshipsQBS System Limited2022
Xiao-Ke LuInternshipsInstitute of Public and Environmental Affairs2022
Kelsey Ji, Stephanie TangInternshipsSummer Atlantic Capital2022
Florence WangSenior Thesis Research“The Rise and Drivers of Nationalistic Sentiment in Contemporary China”2021
Elliot ChenSenior Thesis Research“Information Manipulation and Public Opinion in China”2020
Naomi Cohen-ShieldsSenior Thesis Research“Socioeconomic Status and Air Pollution Disparities Across Chinese”2020
Jack TaitSenior Thesis Research“China's Belt and Road Initiative”2020
Princeton University US-China Coalition (PUCC)PUCC Speaker SeriesOne Country, New System? Reflections on Hong Kong’s National Security Law - July 16, 2020. PUCC Global Governance. PUCC Book Club2020
Sophia ChenSenior Thesis Research“Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom and its Risks to China’s Macroeconomy”2019
Angela FengSenior Thesis ResearchGrammatical Particles in Tujia2019
P.J. James GreenbaumSenior Thesis Research“The East is Red (Ink): China, Aid, and Debt Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa”2019
Frances Ash LodgeSenior Thesis Research“The Decline of Chinese International Adoption”2019
Samuel Rasmussen Senior Thesis Research“Chinese Soft Power Campaigns in Response to BRI-Critical Countries Reaching Out to the West”2019
Catherine WangSenior Thesis Research“School Zone Scramble; How Beijing’s Changing Education Policy Impacts Housing Prices”2019
Princeton University US-China CoalitionGroup ProjectsGlobal Governance Forum, Book Club, and Delegation to Global China Connection Conference2019
Policy PunchlineGroup ProjectsChina-related podcasts2019
International Relations Council Group ProjectsModel UN 20182019
Sumner Brinkley, Devin SunInternshipsIIP: Wolver Hill Asset Management Asia Ltd., an Asia-focused alternative investment asset management and advisory group, in Hong Kong2019
Joseph Feng, Grace Gong, Ange Matsumoto NdayishimiyeInternshipsIIP: Beijing University Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge China), Beijing2019
Yousung Kim, Alyssa Lau, Jenny WangInternshipsIIP: Joint US‐China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), Shanghai2019
Derek LiInternshipsIIP: Octagon, Beijing2019
Xinyi HanInternshipsIIP: China Market Research Group, Shanghai2019
Kevin ZhengInternshipsIIP: StepStone Group, Beijing2019
Maryam Abdurrahman, Zaza Asatiani, Diego Ayala-McCormick, Elizabeth Brennan, Jacquelyn Davila, Amichai Feit, Soumya Gottipati, Rebecca Han, Johanne Kjaersgaard, Dhyan Patell, Rylie Pease, Jonathan Som, Shiina Yuri, Kaylee ZecchinGlobal Seminar Contemporary Chinese Society2019
Idir AitsahaliaIndependent projectsAirline finance and public policy in China2018
Justice DixonInternshipsIIP-J&J Shanghai2018
Angela FengSenior Thesis ResearchGrammatical particles in Tujia2018
Millie GoldrupInternshipsIIP-Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge to China)2018
Julie GoldsteinSenior Thesis ResearchChildren's Health Education in China2018
P.J. GreenbaumSenior Thesis ResearchThe Impact of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Ethnic Politicking in Kenya2018
Shobhit KumarSenior Thesis ResearchExplaining Judicial Transparency: An
Examination of the Digitization of Court Cases in
China
2018
Tiffany LimInternshipsIIP-Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge to China)2018
Frances LodgeSenior Thesis ResearchThe Decline of Chinese International Adoption2018
Vera LummisSenior Thesis ResearchImplications of the new Foreign NGO Law in China on the Political and Operational Climate for Foreign Environmental NGOs in Beijing2018
Hugues Martin Dit NeuvilleInternshipsIIP-Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE)2018
Brandon MintzerInternshipsIIP-Octagon2018
Princeton U.S. China CoalitionGroup ActivitiesPUCC Annual Conference and Book Club2018
Vanessa PhanSenior Thesis ResearchUnderstanding Diversionary Foreign Policy and Leadership Transitions in China2018
Melanie PorrasInternshipsIIP-Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Bridge to China)2018
Cadee QiuSenior Thesis ResearchBlack vs Green: China's exportation of
Renewable and Non-Renewable energy and its drivers and implications
2018
Robert ScheererInternshipsIIP-China Market Research Group2018
Guoen ShengSenior Thesis ResearchComprehensive Analysis of Atmospheric Water Generation as An Innovative Solution to Chinese Water Crisis2018
Nina Sheridanindependent projectsForum for American-Chinese Exchange in Beijing2018
Matthew TroianiSenior Thesis ResearchThe Lingua-Cultural Effects of Mainland Chinese Immigrants on Cultural Identity in Hong Kong2018
Eileen WangInternshipsIIP-Octagon2018
Eric WangSenior Thesis ResearchThe Impact of “One Belt One Road” on Chinese Judicial Reform2018
Kevin YuInternshipsIIP-StepStone Group2018
SiTian ZhangInternshipsIIP-China Market Research Group2018
Janet ZhaoInternshipsIIP-Tsinghua University2018
David ZhouInternshipsIIP-StepStone Group2018

Graduate Students

 

RecipientProgramProject TitleDepartment/Group NameFiscal Year
Merlin BooneGraduate - Research“Bureaucratic Elites and Economic Influence in the Indopacific"SPIA2022
Gavin CookGraduate - ResearchPlanned paper on discrimination against Chinese and Chinese-American scholars in the sciencesSociology2022
Yanping NiGraduate - ResearchSeeing things as things (not subordinated to humans) as a humbling anthropological methodology that illuminates what otherwise constitutes blind spotsAnthropology2022
Aaron SuGraduate - Research“Indigenous ‘Living Labs’: Participatory Design, Technological Stewardship, and the Pluralization of Health in Taiwan"Anthropology2022
David LoganGraduate - Research“Domestic Kindling, International Sparks"SPIA2021
Hannah WaightGraduate - Research“Information under Authoritarianism: Media Manipulation and its Effects in Contemporary China”Sociology2021
Erik WangGraduate - ResearchAims to take a major step toward resolving why women are severely underrepresented in China’s political system with rigorous, systematic causal evidencePolitics2021
Meir AlkonGraduate - ResearchExamine how foreign policy preferences – and specifically public demands for militaristic policy responses to China’s territorial disputes -- can be influenced by changes in local economic conditionsPolitics and SPIA2020
Fin BauerGraduate - ResearchProject solicits funds for a survey experiment on Chinese citizens' concerns about China's status in the worldPolitics2020
Joyce ChenGraduate - ResearchInvestigate sonic and spatial elements relevant to the reaction to the Hong Kong protests in conjunction with the political state of Taiwan, leading up to the presidential election on January 11, 2020Music2020
Gavin G. CookGraduate - ResearchAccompanied Professor Xie on his winter travels to Vietnam and the Philippines in January 2020 in order to offer assistance with survey data collection efforts in Vietnam and to lay a foundation for his dissertationSociology2020
David LoganGraduate - Research“Domestic Kindling, International Sparks”SPIA2020
Hannah WaightGraduate - Research“Information under Authoritarianism: Media Manipulation and its Effects in Contemporary China”Sociology2020
Erik WangGraduate - ResearchResearching under-representation of women in Chinese politicsPolitics2020
Meir AlkonGraduate - Research“Economic Interdependence, Political Risks, and the Limits to Liberalization”Politics, SPIA2019
Joyce ChenGraduate - Research“When Africa meets Asia? Reinterpreting African Music in Taiwan”Music2019
Shuang (Yo-Yo) ChenGraduate - Research“Sibship Size and Parental Investment: Case of Low-Fertility China"Office of Population Research2019
Gavin G. CookGraduate - ResearchAttitudes Toward China ProjectSociology2019
Wei GanGraduate - Research“Public Interest and Philanthropy in China: An Anthropological Exploration”Anthropology2019
Haosen GeGraduate - Research“Government Preferences and Political Risks: Evidence from China”Politics2019
Ruo JiaGraduate - ResearchInvestigates the creative misreading, rewriting, and repositioning out of the gap opened by exchanges across cultures, languages, and disciplinesArchitecture2019
Karolina KoziolGraduate - Research“Representing Foreignness: Tourism in the Chinese-Russian Borderlands”Anthropology2019
David LoganGraduate - Research“Searching for the Nuclear Cult of the Offensive in China”SPIA2019
Junbin TanGraduate - Research“Markets and Political Identities at the China-Taiwan Border”Anthropology2019
Lai WeiGraduate - Research“Migration Experience, Social Comparison and Subjective Well-being in China"Sociology2019
Erik WangGraduate - Research“Does Anti-Corruption Undermine Bureaucracy? Evidence from the Primary Land Market in China”Politics2019
Audyre WongGraduate - Research“Crafting Payoffs: Strategies and Effectiveness of China’s Economic Statecraft"SPIA2019
Wanru XiongGraduate - Research“Human Trafficking of Women and Children in China”Office of Population Research2019
Xue ZhangGraduate - Research“Opening One’s Eyes to Observe the World: Foreign Geography and the Studies of Xinjiang in Nineteen-Century China"East Asian Studies2019
Fin BauerGraduate - ResearchIUP Chinese Language Studies*Politics2018
Kyle ChanGraduate - ResearchChina's High Speed Rail SystemSociology2018
Xu ChenGraduate - ResearchChina's Involvement in Southeast Asia's Power SectorWoodrow Wilson STEP PhD2018
Gavin G.CookGraduate - ResearchTransnational Connections: The Chinese Communities in MumbaiSociology2018
Larry LiuGraduate - ConferencesFrom Export to Foreign Investment: Limitations to the Chinese Accumulation ModelSociology2018
Ryan ParsonsGraduate – Research and ConferencesGlobal Villages and the Remaking of Rural China.  Attendance of PopFest Oxford and Development Studies Association ConferenceSoc2018
Esther Louisa RobinsonGraduate - ResearchSummer Mandarin Language Training at NTU's International Chinese Language Program*Politics Ph.D.2018
Grace TienGraduate - ResearchImporting Silicon Valley: A Study of China's entrepreneurs and startupsSoc.2018
Audrye WongGraduate - ConferencesAttendance of ISA for paper presentationWoodrow Wilson Ph.D.2018
Tszkit YimGraduate - ResearchLate Imperial Chinese Novels in Hong Kong's ScreenscapeEast Asian Studies Ph.D.2018

* CCC no longer funds language study.