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Jessica Weiss
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Moderator: Susan Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
(Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School)
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
Professor Weiss’s research interests include Chinese politics and international relations, nationalism, and social protest. Her publications have appeared in International Organization, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, China-US Focus, and other journals and edited volumes. Professor Weiss has received fellowships and awards from the Princeton-Harvard China & The World Program, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and National Science Foundation. In 2009, she won the Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics from the American Political Science Association. She is currently completing a book manuscript, titled “Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations.”