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Graduate Fellows

Graduate Fellows in China Studies, 2025-2026

  • Alireza "Mani" Nouri

    PhD candidate, Political Science

    Research Areas: China’s great power aspirations; global democratization and autocratization waves.

  • Benjamin Faust

    Master of Global Affairs

    Research Areas: China’s innovation and digital technology

  • David Chen

    PhD candidate, Sociology

    Research Areas: political economy, state capitalism, and geopolitics

  • Jonathan Jojo Ashun

    Master of Global Affairs

    Research Areas: China-Africa relations, the Belt-and-Road Initiative

  • Mary Hertz

    PhD candidate, Political Science

    Research Areas: Chinese politics, state-society relations

  • Ted Allen-Rawding

    Master’s student, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies

    Research Areas: China-Kazakhstan relations, Chinese memory politics