Faculty & Staff
Zhang Wu, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6944
- Email: wu.zhang@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00068
Areas of Expertise
China, East Asia, Comparative Politics
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University
Additional Information
Zhang Wu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her main research interests are local government and popular protest in contemporary China. Her dissertation explores peasant protest against heavy taxes and fees in the 1990s and the early 2000s. She is currently working on rural development policies (“constructing the new socialist countryside”) in response to peasant protest.
Before joining the faculty of UMass Boston, Zhang Wu taught for three years at Union College in upstate New York. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Cornell in 2009. She was born and raised in Hunan, China.
