Jack Zhang awarded 2021 Wilson China Fellowship


Thu, 03/18/2021

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Erinn Barcomb-Peterson

LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas political scientist is among 25 scholars from across the nation named to the 2021 Wilson China Fellowship class.

Jack Zhang

Jack Zhang, assistant professor of political science, was awarded the China-focused nonresidential fellowship that supports the next generation of U.S. scholarship on China.

The Wilson China Fellowship is operated by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Asia Program, in conjunction with the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.

The aim of this fellowship is to produce new and original pieces of research that improve understanding of the role that China is playing in the Indo-Pacific, its relations with its neighbors and the United States, and its influence on peace and security issues.

This year's class includes scholars and practitioners working in a diverse range of policy-relevant issue areas vital to understanding the rise of China and its implications for the United States and the world. Their projects range from explorations of internal Chinese political dynamics to the state of U.S.-China competition in Southeast Asia.

Zhang’s project will be “Multinational Corporations and Economic Statecraft in U.S.-China Competition.”

“I am delighted to be selected for this fellowship,” Zhang said. “I’m eager to use this opportunity to establish a research program at KU that analyzes the political economy of the U.S.-China rivalry and engages with the public at a national, regional and local level on the cause and consequences of economic competition with China.”

In 2019, Zhang established the  KU Trade War Lab, which provides a bottom-up, firm-centric view of the U.S.-China trade war. His lab has grown to include three graduate students and eight undergraduate research assistants. He is a core faculty member at the KU Center for East Asian Studies and teaches courses on the Politics of East Asia, the Political Economy of East Asia and International Relations of Asia.

Thu, 03/18/2021

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Erinn Barcomb-Peterson

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