CV
Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2019-Present
Founder and Director, Trade War Lab, 2020-Present
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
Public Intellectual Fellow, 2023-2025
PREVIOUS AFFILIATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
BIG XII Faculty Fellow, Department of Government, 2023
KOREA UNIVERSITY
Visiting Scholar, College of Political Science & Economics, 2022
WILSON CENTER
Wilson China Fellow, Asia Program & Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, 2021-2022
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, 2018-2019
PEKING UNIVERSITY
Fulbright Researcher, Center for International Political Economy, 2014-2015
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
Ph.D. Political Science, 2018
M.A. Political Science, 2014
Fields: International Relations, Comparative Politics
Dissertation: Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?
Committee: Stephan Haggard (co-chair), David Lake (co-chair), Erik Gartzke, Victor Shih, Megumi Naoi
DUKE UNIVERSITY
B.A. with Distinction in Political Science, 2011
Thesis: Seeking the Beijing Consensus in Asia: An Empirical Test of Soft Power
PUBLICATIONS
Samantha Vortherms and Jiakun J. Zhang, "Political Risk and Firm Exit: Evidence from the US-China Trade War." Review of International Political Economy (Forthcoming)
Zhang, Jiakun J., and Spencer Shanks, "Measuring Chinese Economic Sanctions 1949-2020: Introducing the China TIES Dataset." Conflict Management and Peace Science (2024).
Rigao Liu, Haruka Nagao, William Hatungimana, Jiakun J. Zhang, and John Kennedy, "The Politics of Flu Vaccines: International Collaboration and Political Partisanship." Japanese Journal of Political Science (2024).
Zhang, Jiakun J. and Spencer Shanks, "Disentangling Perception and Performance: A Natural Experiment on Student Engagement and Learning in Simulations." Journal of Political Science Education (2023).
Zhang, Jiakun J., "Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: U.S. Multinational Firms in China and the Decoupling Debate.” U.S.-China Perceptions Monitor (2023).
Zhang, Jiakun J., Rigao Liu, and Samantha Vortherms, "In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics." Business and Politics (2022).
Zhang, Jiakun J., "The U.S.-China Trade War and the Tariff Weapon." The Wilson Center (2022).
Seungmin J. Kuk, and Deborah Seligsohn, and Jiakun J. Zhang, “The Partisan Divide in U.S. Congressional Communications after the China Shock.” Economics and Politics (2022).
Zhang, Jiakun Jack. “US-China Trade War: Interest Group Politics.” In Research Handbook on Trade Wars, edited by Ka Zeng and Wei Liang. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022).
Zhang, Jiakun J. and Jackson Martin, "AUKUS Needs Economic Multilateralism." Wilson Center Asia Dispatches (2021).
Zhang, Jiakun J. and Samantha Vortherms, "Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object: U.S.-China Supply Chains in the Age of Decoupling," Wilson Center Asia Dispatches (2021).
Zhang, Jiakun Jack. “Business, Lobbyists, and the U.S. Congress.” In The Political Logic of the U.S.-China Trade War, edited by Shiping Hua. (Lexington Books, 2021).
Zhang, Jiakun J.,"Impact of the Trade War on the Chinese Economy," China Trends by Institut Montaigne. (2019).
Zhang, Jiakun J.,"Chinese Perceptions of Trump's Trade Policy," European Council on Foreign Relations. (2018).
Zhang, Jiakun J., Review of David Kang (2017) American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century, Journal of Peace Research Book Notes. Published online 17 January 2018.
Zhang, Jiakun J., Seungmin J. Kuk, and Deborah Seligsohn, “From Tiananmen to Outsourcing: How Rising Import Competition Influenced Congressional Behavior Towards China.” Journal of Contemporary China (2017).
Gartzke, Erik, Shannon Carcelli, Andres Gannon, and Jiakun J. Zhang, “Signaling in Foreign Policy,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis ed. Cameron Thies (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Zhang, Jiakun J., Review of Elin Bjarnegård & Joakim Kreutz, eds, (2017) Debating the East Asian Peace. Journal of Peace Research Book Notes. Published online 19 April 2017.
Gartzke, Erik and Jiakun J. Zhang, “Trade and War”, in Oxford Handbook on the Politics of Trade ed. Lisa Martin (Oxford University Press, 2015).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Lindsay Dolan, Robert Kubinec, Daniel Nielson, and Jiakun J. Zhang, "A Field Experiment on Business Opposition to the U.S.-China Trade War" (Under Review)
Zhang, Jiakun J. and Spencer Shanks, "Determinants of China Policy Entrepreneurship in the United States Senate" (Under Review)
Zhang, Jiakun J., Timothy Cichanowicz, and Samantha Vortherms, "Determinants of Decoupling and Friend-Shoring of Japanese MNCs in China"
Zhang, Jiakun J., and Timothy Cichanowicz, "Securitized Commodities: US and Japanese Legislative Responses to De-Risking with China"
Zhang, Jiakun J., Rigao Liu, and Samantha Vortherms, "The Domestic Political Geography of Firm Exit in the US-China Trade War"
Zhang, Jiakun J. and Clayton Webb, “The Political Logic of Scapegoating: The Attribution of Blame for Global Economic Problems"
Zhang, Jiakun J., Weifeng Zhong, Jianbing Li, “Propaganda and Foreign Policy Change in China: Text Analysis of People’s Daily Content during International Crises"
Zhang, Jiakun J., “Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace? Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Military Force"
Zhang, Jiakun J., and Jeremy Ross, "Guns and ships, but does the balance shift? The impact of naval balance of power on China's maritime disputes"
Zhang, Jiakun J., and Yingjie Jessica Fan, “Does China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement have an Anti-Foreign Bias?”
Zhang, Jiakun J., “Tying the Invisible Hand of Peace: Why Trading States Still Choose to Fight”
Zhang, Jiakun J., and Jon Lindsay, “Information Infrastructure: Sources of Restraint in Cyberspace, Outer Space, and the U.S.-China Security Relationship”
Rex Douglass, Thomas Scherer, Andres Gannon, Shannon Carcelli, Jiakun J. Zhang, and Erik Gartzke, "The Named Entities in Social Sciences: A Unified Cross-Century Cataloging of Global Political Actors"
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Research Excellence Initiative (REI) Jim Mielke Fund ($1080), University of Kansas, 2024
International Affairs Advisory Board International Teaching Award, University of Kansas ($1000), 2024
Social & Behavioral Sciences General Research Fund, University of Kansas ($3,990), 2024
Grant Goodman Undergraduate Mentor Award, University of Kansas ($1500), 2023
CUR Research-Intensive Course Grant, University of Kansas ($500), 2022
J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award, University of Kansas ($1000), 2022
Academic Collaboration Grant, Mercatus Center ($65,000), 2022
Foreign Policy Research Grant, Charles Koch Foundation ($80,000), 2021
CTE Course Transformation Grant, University of Kansas ($2000), 2021
University Research Grant, Minerva Research Initiative ($200,000), 2021-2024
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies ($5000), 2021
K. Barbara Schowen Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, University of Kansas ($1000), 2021
CTE Ideas to Action Program, University of Kansas ($3000), 2021
KUIA South, Southeast, and East Asia (SSEEA) Fund, University of Kansas ($3500), 2021
Wilson China Fellowship, Wilson Center ($20,000), 2021
New Faculty General Research Fund Option 2, University of Kansas ($20,000), 2020
Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership, Minerva Research Initiative ($70,025), 2020-2022
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies ($3000), 2020
CEAS Course Redesign Grant, University of Kansas ($2500), 2020
CEAS Travel Grant ($300), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation, 2020
Research Excellence Initiative (REI) Time-Sensitive and Urgency Fund ($1000), University of Kansas, 2019
CTE Course Transformation Grant, University of Kansas ($1888), 2019
CLAS Travel Funds, University of Kansas ($700-1000), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, 2018-2019
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China (declined), 2018
Graduate Student Association (GSA) Peer Mentorship Award, UC San Diego, 2018
Dissertation Research Grant ($5,000), Charles Koch Foundation, 2017
World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship ($7,500), Smith Richardson Foundation, 2017
Graduate Student Association Travel Grant ($500), UC San Diego, 2016, 2018
Herbert York Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000), University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), 2016
Stanford Lakoff Research Fellowship ($2000), UC San Diego, 2015, 2017
Fulbright U.S. Student Award ($27,000), Institute of International Education (IIE), 2015
Best Student Paper Award ($500), Pacific Chapter of American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, 2014
Dean of Social Sciences Travel Grant ($250), UC San Diego, 2014, 2015
Graduate Student Research Travel Grant, UC San Diego ($1000), Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), 2013
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Honorable Mention), 2013
China Hands Magazine '25 Under 25 in US-China Relations,' 2013
Chinese Government Scholarship (full scholarship to Peking University, declined), 2011
Ole R. Holsti Award in International Relations, Duke University ($500), 2011
Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Award, Duke University, 2011
William J. Griffith University Service Award, Duke University, 2011
Duke Asia-Pacific Studies Institute Summer Research Grant ($1000), 2010
Janet B. Chiang and Sirena WuDunn Memorial Scholarships, Duke University, 2010
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting
"Industrial Policy and Investment Networks in the US-China Trade War" (with Samantha Vortherms and Kyle Jaros) 2024
"Determinants of Decoupling and Friend-Shoring of Japanese MNCs in China" (with Timothy Cichanowicz and Samantha Vortherms) 2023
"Industrial Policy and Investment Networks in the US-China Trade War" (with Samantha Vortherms and Rigao Liu) 2023
"Continuity and Change in China's Economic Coercion" (with Spencer Shanks and Rigao Liu) 2022
"In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics" (with Samantha Vortherms and Rigao Liu) 2021
"How are U.S. Firms Reacting to the Trade War?" (with Robert Kubinec, Lindsay Dolan, and Daniel Nielson) 2021
"Assessing the Trade War’s Impact on Foreign Invested Enterprises in China" (with Samantha Vortherms) 2020
"The Role of American Multinationals in the China Trade War" 2019
"The Partisan Divide in U.S. Congressional Communications after the China Shock" (with John Kuk and Deborah Seligsohn) 2019
"Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2018
"Can Trade Prevent Conflict with China? Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Economic and Military Coercion" 2017
“Multinational Firms and the Microfoundations of the Commercial Peace” 2016
“How has China’s WTO Accession Influenced Changed Congressional Behavior” (with John Kuk and Deborah Seligsohn) 2015
Interdependent Infrastructure: Cyberspace, Space, and the U.S.-China Security Relationship” (with Jon Lindsay) 2014
International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting
“Propaganda and Foreign Policy Change in China: Text Analysis of People’s Daily Content during International Crises" (with Jianbing Li and Weifeng Zhong) 2024
"Assessing Japanese Firm Exit and Relocation from China" (with Timothy Cichanowicz) 2023
"The Political Logic of Scapegoating: The Attribution of Blame for Global Economic Problems" (with Clayton Webb) 2022
"In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics" (with Samantha Vortherms and Rigao Liu) 2022
"Political Risk and Firm Exit: Evidence from the U.S.-China Trade War" (with Samantha Vortherms) 2021
“Tying the Invisible Hand of Peace: Why Trading States Still Choose to Fight” 2020 (canceled)
"Can Trade Prevent Conflict with China? Trade Interdependence and Chinese Foreign Policy" 2019
"Does China's Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement have an Anti-Foreign Bias?" (with Yingjie Jessica Fan) 2019
"The Named Entities Project: A Unified Cross-Century Cataloging of Global Political Actors" (with Rex Douglass, Andres Gannon, and Shannon Carcelli) 2018
International Studies Association (ISA) Midwest Annual Meeting
"Propaganda and Foreign Policy Change in China: Text Analysis of People’s Daily Content during International Crises" (with Weifeng Zhong and Jianbing Li) 2023
"Determinants of Decoupling and Friend-Shoring of Japanese MNCs in China" (with Timothy Cichanowicz and Samantha Vortherms) 2023
"The Domestic Political Geography of Firm Exit in the US-China Trade War" (with Samantha Vortherms and Rigao Liu) 2022
"Foreign Policy Change and Foreign Coverage in Chinese Official Media: Text Analysis of People’s Daily Content during International Crises" (with Weifeng Zhong and Jianbing Li) 2022
"Guns and ships, but does the balance shift? The impact of naval balance of power on China's maritime disputes" (with Jeremy Ross) 2022
"In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics" (with Samantha Vortherms and Rigao Liu) 2021
"Measuring China’s Economic Coercion 1949-2019" (with Rigao Liu and Spencer Shanks) 2020
"In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics" (with Rigao Liu and Samantha Vortherms) 2020
“The Role of American Multinationals in the China Trade War” 2019
"Can Trade Prevent Conflict with China? Trade Interdependence and Chinese Foreign Policy" 2019
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting
"The United States Senate’s role in the US-China Relationship 1989-2018" (with Spencer Shanks) 2021
"In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics" (with Rigao Liu and Samantha Vortherms) 2021
"Does China's Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement have an Anti-Foreign Bias?" (with Yingjie Jessica Fan) 2018
“Tying the Invisible Hand of Peace: Why Trading States Still Choose to Fight” 2017
Information Infrastructure: Sources of Restraint in Cyberspace, Outer Space, and the U.S.-China Security Relationship” (with Jon Lindsay) 2016
“Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?” 2016
“Firm Heterogeneity and the Commercial Peace: the China-Japan Case” 2014
International Political Science Society (IPES) Annual Meeting
"Political Risk and Firm Exit: Evidence from the US-China Trade War" (with Samantha Vortherms) 2021
“The Role of American Multinationals in the China Trade War" 2019
"The Partisan Divide in U.S. Congressional Communications after the China Shock" (with John Kuk and Deborah Seligsohn) 2017
INVITED TALKS
Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series (JPOSS), "Determinants of Decoupling and Friend-Shoring of Japanese MNCs in China" 2024
William & Mary Security & Foreign Policy Initiative, "Geoeconomics and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific" 2024
Ft. Leavenworth Global Economics & International Relations Symposium, "De-Risking in East Asia: A Multinational Perspective" 2023
Chinese Politics Research in Progress (CPRP), "Industrial Policy and Investment Networks in the US-China Trade War" 2023
University of Richmond, "Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: China’s Foreign Invested Enterprises in the Era of Decoupling" 2023
Korea University, "Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: China’s Foreign Invested Enterprises in the Era of Decoupling" 2022
World Trade Council of Wichita, "The China-Taiwan Situation" 2022
Missouri State University, "Inevitable Conflict? The Future of US-China Relations" 2022
China Business Information Center, Department of Commerce, ``Multinational Corporations and Economic Statecraft in U.S.-China Competition" 2022
International Relations Council Speaker Series, IRC, "What's Happening in the South China Sea" 2022
KU Endowment Investment Committee Retreat, "Introduction to China" 2022
The Wilson China Fellowship Conference 2022, Wilson Center, "The U.S.-China Trade War and the Tariff Weapon" 2022
Economic Statecraft Program Speaker Series, Bush School at TAMU, "The U.S.-China Trade War and the Tariff Weapon" 2022
Fall Research Luncheon, KU Institute for Policy and Social Research, "In the Middle: American Multinationals in China and Trade War Politics" 2021
Chinese Politics and Economy Research Seminar Series, Georgetown University, "Political Risk and Firm Exit: Evidence from the US-China Trade War" (with Samantha Vortherms) 2021
DECUR Partnership Workshop, United States Air Force Academy, "U.S-China Trade War: An After Action Review" 2021
Ft. Leavenworth Global Economics & International Relations Symposium, "U.S-China Trade War: An After Action Review" 2021
IR Workshop, University of Maryland, "Assessing the Trade War’s Impact on Foreign Invested Enterprises in China" (with Samantha Vortherms) 2021
CHINA Town Hall, National Committee on US-China Relations & KU CEAS, "U.S-China Trade War: An After Action Review" 2020
US Elections and the Future of the Trade War Webinar, UC Irvine Long US-China Institute, "U.S.-China Trade War: An After Action Review" 2020
China Research Workshop, UC San Diego 21st Century China Center, "Assessing the Trade War’s Impact on Foreign Invested Enterprises in China" (with Samantha Vortherms) 2020
North Korea: From the Inside Out Symposium, KU ICCAE. "Chinese Foreign Relations towards North Korea" 2020
Go Global KC, KC Chamber, "Impact of the Trade War on Greater Kansas City Businesses" 2020
Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, “The Role of American Multinationals in the China Trade War" 2020
U.S.-China University Think-tank Dialogue, UCSD 21st Century China Center, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2019
Making Sense of the US-China Trade War Conference, University of Arkansas, “The Role of American Multinationals in the China Trade War" 2019
International Relations and East Asia (IREA) Online Colloquium, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2019
International Relations Faculty Colloquium, Princeton University, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2018
Center for the Study of Contemporary China Weekly Forum, University of Pennsylvania, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2018
Global Young Scholars Conference: China and the World, Fudan University, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2018
Bridging Asia Conference, USC Center for International Studies, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2018
China and International Relations Graduate Research Workshop (CHAIR), University of Pennsylvania, "Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?" 2017
ISA International Hong Kong, "Tying the Invisible Hand of Peace: Why Trading States Still Choose to Fight" 2017
Young Scholars Conference: Social Sciences and China Studies, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China, "Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Economic and Military Coercion" 2017
China Research Workshop, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China, “Does China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement have an Anti-Foreign Bias?” 2017
Freeman Chair in China Studies Seminar Series, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), “Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Economic and Military Coercion” 2016
Brownbag Academic Seminar Series, RAND Corporation, “Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Economic and Military Coercion” 2016
Herb York Global Security Fellows Symposium, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, “Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?” 2016
Young Scholars Workshop, Columbia Global Center | East Asia, “Firm Heterogeneity and the Commercial Peace” 2015
China Research Workshop, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China, “From Tiananmen to Outsourcing: How Rising Import Competition has Changed Congressional Voting Towards China” (with John Kuk and Deborah Seligsohn)” 2014
Graduate Seminar on China, University Services Center for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Powerful Patrons: Taking Stock of Political Connections in China” 2014
China Research Workshop, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China, “Powerful Patrons: Taking Stock of Political Connections in China” 2013
TISS Honor Students Presentations, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, “Seeking the Beijing Consensus in Asia: An Empirical Test of Soft Power” 2011
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Cooperation, Competition, & Conflict in East Asia, William & Mary Global Research Institute 2024
The Dole Institute of Politics, "No Trade is Free: A Conversation with Ambassador Robert Lighthizer" 2023 (Canceled)
Workshop on Sanctions, Globalization, War and Peace, Institute for Humane Studies 2023
Mansfield-Luce Asia Network Asia Study Trip, Tokyo/Hong Kong/Jakarta 2023
Working on China Workshop, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations 2023
The Dole Institute of Politics, "A New Cold War? America, China, and Russia after the Ukraine War" 2022
International Relations Council Speaker Series, IRC, "Global Motivations: China w/ Amy Celico" 2022
The Wilson China Fellowship Conference, Wilson Center 2022
Pacific International Politics Conference Speaker Series (PIPCOSS), 2021
DECUR Partnership Workshop, United States Air Force Academy 2021
Big 12 Teaching & Learning Conference, 2021
China under Xi: Policies and Challenges, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) 2021
DECUR Partnership Grant Program Review, Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2020
Workshop on Chinese Economic Statecraft, UC San Diego 21st Century China Center 2020
The U.S.-China Futures Project, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy 2020
North Korea: From the Inside Out Symposium, KU ICCAE & IRC 2020
CHINA Town Hall, National Committee on US-China Relations & KU CEAS 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Understanding the Domestic Politics of the US-China Trade War Workshop, Princeton University 2020
Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network Meeting/Retreat, Washington, DC/Montana 2020 (postponed)
U.S.-China University Think-tank Dialogue, UC San Diego 21st Century China Center 2019
Symposium on Making Sense of the US-China Trade War, University of Arkansas 2019
UC San Diego Forum on U.S.-China Relations, UC San Diego 2019
Beyond the Brink: Escalation and Conflict in U.S.-China Economic Relations, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 2019
New Era Workshop (NEW), Bridging the Gap, UC Berkeley 2019
Bridging Asia Conference, USC Center for International Studies 2018
Minerva Meeting and Program Review, Washington, DC 2018
Pacific International Politics Conference (PIPC), University of Hong Kong 2018 (declined)
China and International Relations Graduate Research Workshop (CHAIR), University of Pennsylvania 2017
Trump in Asia: A One-Year Retrospective, The Korea-Pacific Program and 21st Century China Center, UC San Diego 2017
Cross Domain Deterrence Workshop, UC San Francisco 2017
Herbert York Global Security Fellows Symposium, IGCC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2016
Brookings U.S.-China Leaders Forum, Sunnylands, CA 2016
Workshop on Economic Interdependence and War, UC Irvine 2016
Cross Domain Deterrence Workshop, Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center, CA 2016
Workshop on U.S.-China-South Korea Relations, The East Asia Foundation and The Korea-Pacific Program, UC San Diego 2016
Fulbright Mid-Year Research Workshop, Taipei 2015
West Coast International Relations of Asia Conference, USC Korean Studies
Institute and USC East Asian Studies Center, USC 2014
Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), IGCC, La Jolla, CA 2014
SITC Summer Training Workshop on the Relationship Between National Security and Technology in China, IGCC, UC San Diego 2014
5th Annual Chinese Defense Industry Conference, IGCC, UC San Diego 2014
European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual General Conference, Edinburgh 2014
China’s Outbound Direct Investment: Risks and Remedies, 21st Century China Program, UC San Diego 2013
Hertog Summer Study, Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 2012
Presidential Fellows Program, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress 2011
Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES), Stanford University and Zhejiang University 2010
American Political Science Association (APSA) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
International Studies Association (ISA) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2013
International Studies Association (ISA) Midwest 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013
International Political Economy Society (IPES) 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013
TEACHING
University of Kansas Political Science Department
Instructor
Introduction to International Politics 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019
International Relations of Asia 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019
Foreign Policy Analysis 2024, 2022, 2020
Government and Politics of East Asia 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Political Economy of East Asia 2025, 2023, 2019
East Asian Security 2022, 2021
Chinese Foreign Policy 2025
University of Kansas Global and International Studies Interagency Studies Program (ISP)
Instructor
International Relations of Asia 2024
UC San Diego Political Science Department
Instructor
Politics in the People’s Republic of China 2018
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Comparative Politics (Ferree) 2016, 2017
Introduction to International Relations (Lake) 2017
Weapons of Mass Destruction (Gartzke) 2012, 2013, 2018
National Security Strategy (Slantchev) 2013
Politics of the People's Republic of China (Gueorguiev) 2014
Political Development and Modern China (Hoston) 2016
UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Teaching Assistant
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Haggard) 2017, 2018
The Modern World Economy (Broz) 2015, 2016
SERVICE
Political Science Research Methods (PSRM), Referee 2014–Present
Political Research Quarterly (PRQ), Referee 2015–Present
Journal of Peace Research (JPR), Referee 2015–Present
Journal of East Asian Studies (JEAS), Referee 2016–Present
Security Studies (SS), Referee 2018– Present
Chinese Journal of International Politics (CJIP), Referee 2018–Present
Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR), Referee 2019–Present
International Studies Review (ISR), Referee 2019–Present
International Organization (IO), Referee 2020–Present
American Political Science Review (APSR), Referee 2020–Present
American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), Referee 2021–Present
Business and Politics (BaP), Referee 2021–Present
International Studies Quarterly (ISQ), Referee 2021–Present
Japanese Journal of Political Science (JJP), Referee 2022–Present
Asian Survey, Referee 2023–Present
International Relations of the Asia Pacific (IRAP), Referee 2024–Present
Asia Policy, Referee 2024–Present
International Studies Association (ISA), Foreign Policy Analysis Section, Officer-at-Large 2020-2023
International Studies Association (ISA), Co-organizer
Panel: Trade Wars and Domestic Politics in East Asia 2022
Panel: Economic Nationalism Meets Global Value Chains 2021
Panel: New Approaches to Geography and IR 2020 (canceled)
Panel: Chinese Statecraft in an Era of Interdependence 2019
Panel: China and the Challenges of Globalization 2019
Panel: China’s Integration into the Global Economy 2018
International Studies Association (ISA), Chair/Discussant
Panel: Strategies and consequences of non-violent coercion in dictatorships 2023
Panel: US Foreign Policy Toward China 2022
Panel: Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Regulatory Policies 2022
Panel: China's Rise in the World: Theories and Empirical Evidence 2021
Panel: International Trade, Conflict, and Cooperation 2021
Panel: Conflict and Trade 2021
Panel: Chinese Economic Foreign Policy 2020 (canceled)
Panel: China’s Integration into the Global Economy 2018
Panel: China's Strategy 2017
International Studies Association (ISA) Midwest, Lynne Rienner Grad Student Award Committee 2023
International Studies Association (ISA) Midwest, Chair/Discussant
Panel: Trade and Aid 2023
Panel: China Rising? 2022
American Political Science Association (APSA), Chinese Politics Mini-Conference, Organizing Committee 2023
American Political Science Association (APSA), International Collaboration Section, Best Article Award Committee 2022
American Political Science Association (APSA), Co-organizer
Panel: Political Risk and Foreign Direct Investment 2023
Panel: Politics of the U.S.-China Trade War 2021
Panel: Conflict and Trade 2020
Panel: The Microfoundations of the US-China Trade War 2019
Panel: Political Risk with Chinese Characteristics 2018
Panel: Economic Interdependence and Political Conflict with China 2017
American Political Science Association (APSA), Chair/Discussant
Panel: The Politics of the U.S.-China Trade War 2022
Panel: Conflict and Trade 2023
Panel: Conflict and Trade 2020
Panel: China’s Overseas Influence: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Effectiveness 2020
Panel: Outgoing China: Domestic Politics and International Implications 2020
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Discussant
Panel: China's Relations with IOS and Its Neighbors 2019
Panel: Domestic Factors and China's External Relations 2019
Panel: The Political Economy of Firms 2017
The Pacific International Politics Conference Online Speaker Series (PIPCOSS), Discussant
"How Effective is Chinese Economic Coercion?" 2024
"Trading with Pariahs: International Trade and North Korean Sanctions" 2021
KU Trade War Lab, Founder and Director 2020–Present
KU Trade War Lab Speaker Series, Organizer 2020–Present
KU Office of Research, Social Sciences Internal Award Review Panel 2023-2025
KU Jayhawks Elevate - Lot 15 zoning, Change Agent 2024
KU Center for East Asian Studies, Interim Associate Director 2023
KU Center for Global and International Studies, Graduate Advisory Committee 2023-Present
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2022), Program Committee 2022
Mercatus Center Policy Analytics Research Program, Faculty Mentor 2022, 2023
WITA Academy: Pathways To Opportunity Symposium, Co-Sponsor 2023
KU Public Scholars Group, Member 2021-2022
USC SPEC Lab Research Experience for Undergraduates, Faculty Mentor/Team Leader 2020, 2021
KU CUR Undergraduate Research Award, Faculty Mentor 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
KU CUR Emerging Scholars Program, Faculty Mentor 2020–Present
KU Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Selection Committee, Member 2019-2020
KU College of Arts and Sciences John Ise Award Committee, Member 2021
KU College of Arts and Sciences General Research Fund Review Committee, Member 2020-2021
KU NSF CAREER Writing Workshop, Peer-reviewer 2019-2020
KU Political Science Department Thompson Scholar Summer Research Program, Faculty Mentor 2020-2023
KU Political Science Department Graduate Studies Committee, Member 2021-2022
KU Political Science Department Advisory Committee, Member 2020-2021, 2023-2024
KU Political Science Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, Member 2019-2020, 2022-2023
KU Political Science Department, IR Prelim Committee, Chair 2020, 2024
KU Public Scholars Group, Member 2021-2022
China Focus (21st Century China Center blog), Adviser 2013–2017
UC San Diego Political Science Graduate Council, President 2016–2017
UC San Diego Political Science Research Apprenticeship Program, Mentor 2016–2018
Duke Asian Alumni Alliance, Vice Chair of Student Affairs 2019–2023
Duke East Asia Nexus (student-edited journal), Editor-in-Chief 2008–2010
Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit, Co-Founder 2011
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Peking University 2013, 2015
Fulbright Researcher
Invited by Dr. Wang Yong to conduct preliminary research and data collection on dissertation prospectus at the Center for International Political Economy at the School of International Studies during the summer of 2013. Returned to PKU SIS for 10 months of dissertation field research supported by Fulbright U.S. Student Award from March to December 2015.
University of California San Diego 2012– 2018
Research Assistant for Dr. Erik Gartzke
Research the effects of economic interdependence on deterrence as well as Chinese space and cyberspace policy for a DoD Minerva Research Initiative Grant on Cross-Domain Deterrence. Served as ‘publications czar' for CDD project and helped manage the research workflow and coordinate between authors to make the team more productive.
Duke University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2010– 2011
Research Assistant for Dr. Shi Tianjian and Dr. Liu Kang
Worked with Dr. Shi Tianjian (Duke) and Dr. Liu Kang (SJTU) to research American public opinion towards the PRC. Helped design a survey to study US public opinion towards China. Analyzed results 2010 Asian Barometer Survey data; used data for honors thesis. Led a field team to collect data for the Survey of International Press in China.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Economist Intelligence Unit 2017-present
Freelance Contributor, China
Write articles and consult for various projects on economic and political events happening in China with a potential impact on the EIU forecast outlook.
Eurasia Group 2011– 2013
Researcher, Asia Practice
Analyzed the intersection between Chinese politics and markets for a range of institutional investors and multinational corporations. Authored numerous corporate briefings, political risk assessments, and several government reports. Worked as an independent consultant until summer of 2013.
SKILLS
Languages: Native fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English, experience translating from Chinese to English
Data Analysis & Software: Proficient in STATA, R, Excel, Qualtrics, LaTeX
Digital Publishing and Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WeChat, WordPress