Senior Advisers and Executive Committee

Research interests: Modern history of rural China; and Chinese social and economic history, fifteenth-century to the present.

Research interests: The politics, cultures, and ethics of hacking.

Research interests: Music and politics; cultural policy; cultural institutions; popular music; modern Turkey; nationalism; populism; and social memory.

Research interests: The social history of Japan in the Tokugawa (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. 

Research interests: Politics of international trade; foreign policy of East Asia and Japan; and geopolitics and international organizations.

Research interests: Political sociology; law and society; economic sociology; sociology of media and information technologies; sociology of work, labor, and labor movements; science and technology studies; development; and China studies.

Research interests: Corruption and the rule of law; authoritarian politics; state building and state capacity; and Chinese politics.