Philip Andrews-Speed is a principal fellow at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore. He has 35 years in the field of energy and resources, starting his career as a mineral and oil exploration geologist before moving into the field of energy and resource governance. Until 2010 he was professor of energy policy at the University of Dundee and director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. Recent books include China, Oil and Global Politics and The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy.
C. D. Alison Bailey teaches at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Former director of the Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, her research focuses on violence, filial revenge, mourning and legal history, particularly the work of the 17th-century jurist Wang Mingde. Prior to UBC she taught at Cornell and SOAS, and worked in Beijing for several years.
Thomas P. Bernstein is professor emeritus at Columbia University. In 1977 he published a book, Up to the Mountains and down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China (Yale Press).
Kai Chen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Non-Traditional Security and Peaceful Development Studies, College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China. From November 2013 to May 2014, he held the position of visiting scholar at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
Nicola Dean is a postgraduate in the department of diplomacy, National Chengchi University (Taiwan). His research interests include Chinese foreign policy, PRC think tanks, and foreign relations of the European Union.
Sarah Eaton is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Waterloo.
Richard Louis Edmonds is visiting professor in the geographical studies programme of the University of Chicago. His interests focus around environmental studies and historical geography. He was editor of The China Quarterly from 1996–2002. Dr Edmonds has written extensively on China, Japan, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. He is the author of Macau (World Bibliographical Series, Oxford: Clio Press, 1989) and Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection (1994), and most recently co-edited China's Embedded Activism (2007).
Ivan Franceschini holds a PhD from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His current research focuses on the issue of rights awareness among Chinese migrant workers.
Russ Glenn is a consultant at InnoSpring startup accelerator in Silicon Valley focusing on innovation and governance. He has a PhD in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University and has taught on Chinese international relations and energy security at Leiden University.
Melvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness professor of anthropology and co-director, Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Haomin Gong is assistant professor of Chinese at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012), and has published articles in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Journal of Contemporary China, China Information, Asian Cinema, Telos, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, and Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. He has also contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes.
Björn Gustafsson is professor at the department of social work, University of Gothenburg Sweden and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
Enze Han is currently a lecturer in the department of politics and international studies, SOAS, University of London. His research interests include ethnic politics in China and China's international relations, particularly with Southeast Asia.
Stevan Harrell is an environmental anthropologist, professor of anthropology and of environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He works in China, Taiwan and the State of Washington, and has conducted research on forest ecology, policy and management in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture as part of interdisciplinary teams in the natural and social sciences since 2002.
Jikun Huang is professor and director, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
Tina Phillips Johnson is associate professor of history and director of Chinese studies at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and research associate at the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center. She is currently working on disease surveillance and applied nutrition and maternal and child health projects in East and Southeast Asia.
Pauline Keating, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, specializes in the history of rural reform and revolution in China during the Republican period.
Charles Kilby holds an MA in US foreign policy from American University and was a Boren Fellow in Beijing from 2011 to 2012.
Genia Kostka is an assistant professor in the department of economics at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Johan Lagerkvist is a senior research fellow with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He authored After the Internet, Before Democracy: Competing Norms in Chinese Media and Society (2010). He is currently working on the project “Challenging state power in China: The formation of new citizen norms in emerging civil society.”
Renfu Luo is associate professor at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
Melanie Manion is professor of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is completing a book manuscript on local people's congresses for Cambridge University Press.
Tim Oakes is professor of geography and director of the Center for Asian studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Fangbin Qiao is professor at the China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing.
Xuefei Ren is associate professor of sociology and global urban studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Urban China (Polity, 2013).
Alicia Robbins is a research associate at the University of Washington. She works in the field of natural resource economics in China and the United States.
Scott Rozelle is Helen Farnsworth senior fellow and professor in the food security and the environment program, Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Stanford University and is adjunct professor at Renmin University's School of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vimalin Rujivacharakul is associate professor of the history of art and architecture at the University of Delaware, USA. A former member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies (2011–2012), Princeton, she recently completed her SSRC-JSPS research year leave in residence at Aoyama Gakuin and the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Peter Saunders holds a research chair in social policy at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published extensively on poverty and inequality, including recently on deprivation and social exclusion in Hong Kong. He is president of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security and until 2013 was president of the Australian Social Policy Association.
Christian Sorace is a PhD candidate in the University of Texas government department. He is currently completing his dissertation on the political dynamics of the post-Wenchuan Earthquake reconstruction process. His research mainly focuses on social transformations and political economic development in rural China, China's urbanization process, political aesthetics and post-Marxist political theory.
Ralph A. Thaxton Jr. is professor of politics at Brandeis University and research affiliate at the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Chung-min Tsai is assistant professor of political science at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received a PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2010. His research interests include comparative politics, political economy and China studies. Professor Tsai's research has been published in the Asian Survey.
Wen-Hsuan Tsai is assistant research fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Research interests include political reform in the PRC, CCP political institutions, comparative politics and comparative authoritarian regimes.
Péter Vámos is senior research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His current research is on Sino-Soviet bloc relations.
Sebastian Veg is a research professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS), Paris, currently on secondment as director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC), Hong Kong. His research is on literary and intellectual debates in 20th-century China.
Yan Xiaojun is assistant professor in politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong. He obtained a PhD in political science from Harvard University in 2009. He is a comparative political scientist with special expertise in the politics of China. His research interests are political development, authoritarianism, democratization, local government, contentious politics, comparative historical study of revolution, and Chinese reforms.
Linxiu Zhang is professor and deputy director at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
Ling Zhou is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Her current research analyses the emergence and changing nature of consumer law and regulation in China over the past three decades, giving particular attention to the roles that the state and various social actors play in enhancing consumers' access to justice, and the ways in which consumers perceive and resolve their disputes.
