Jiajia Zhou

Research Project: Firms and Place Resentment in Economic Transitions

Dr. Zhou received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia from Columbia University, and B.A. (Hons.) in Japanese Studies with a second major in Economics from the National University of Singapore. Her research is motivated by questions of representation and inequality, with a focus on electoral support for populism and sources of democratic resilience. At Harvard, she will be working on her book manuscript, which examines the organizational structure of the political party as a mediating factor for the causes and consequences of populist support, as well as a new project probing the relationship between firms and place resentment. Her work has been published in International Organization and the Journal of Asian Public Policy. She will be joining the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, NTHU, as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Fall 2027.