Institute for International Research at
The Hopkins-Nanjing Center

The Institute for International Research hosts international and Chinese scholars for varying appointment terms.

Current Scholars 2007-2008

Jin Feng, 2007-2008
Current Position: Associate Professor, Grinnell College, Iowa
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2000
M.A., University of Illinois, 1996
B.A., Fudan University, Shanghai, 1993
Research Topic: Exile Between Two Continents: Chinese American Experiences
During China’s Resistance War (1937-1945)

Denise Hare, Spring semester, 2008
Current Position: Associate Professor of Economics, Reed College
Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1992
Certificate, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, 1988
B.A., Economics, Carleton College, 1983
Research Topic: Enterprise Privatization and Public Goods Provision in
Rural china

Alison Denton Jones, 2007-2008
Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University
Certificate, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, 2000
B.A., Pomona College, 1998
Research Topic: (Re) Constructing Religion: Organizing Lay Buddhism in
Urban China Today

Leslie Shieh, 2007
Current Position: PhD. candidate, University of British Columbia
Certificate, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, 2006
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Cornell University
Research Topic: Governance of Urban Neighborhoods in Contemporary China

Malcolm Thompson, 2007-2008
Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, University of British Columbia
M.A., University of British Columbia, Canada, 2004
B.A., Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1997
Research Topic: The Birth of the Chinese Population: Biopolitics in late
Imperial and Republican China

Philip West, Fall semester 07
Current Position: Mansfield Professor of Asian Affairs, University of Montana
Former American Co-Director of Hopkins-Nanjing Center, 8/90 – 7/91
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971
M.A. Harvard University, 1966
B.A., Manchester College, Indiana, 1960
Research Topic: Mapping Chinese Sorrows of War