08.01.08

CIS Welcomes Post-Doctoral Fellows Roselyn Hsueh and Chih-Chieh (Titus) Chen

We are delighted to welcome the two winners of the 2008-09 Hayward R. Alker Post-Doctoral Fellowship competition, Roselyn Hsueh and Chieh-Chih (Titus) Chen. This year's competition sought scholars who are doing innovative research on US-China Relations, and both recipients will also hold joint appointments at the USC U.S.-China Institute. Below are their short bios and areas of interest.

Roselyn Hsueh

Roselyn Hsueh completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley in May 2008. Her dissertation, “China’s New Regulatory State: A Bifurcated Strategy Toward Foreign Investment,” examines the relationship between China’s FDI policy, industrial development, and market reform. She will spend the 2008-2009 academic year transforming her dissertation into a book manuscript. Her other research projects include a comparative study of capital liberalization and industrial development in China, India, and Russia and China’s foreign economic policy and its implications in Africa. In fall 2009, she will join the political science faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia as a tenure-track assistant professor.

Chih-Chieh (Titus) Chen

Titus Chen completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of California at Irvine. In his dissertation titled “Capped Socialization: Examining the Effectiveness of US Engagement in China’s Legal Reform,” Chen investigates episodes of Sino-Western contention in different times and sheds light on the role of global norm diffusion in the transformation of Sino-Western legal and political relationships. While at CIS, Chen plans to convert his PhD dissertation into publishable journal articles, and to begin a project that bears upon the institutional development of international human rights regimes. Chen looks to the wielding of soft power in US-China relations as a prime subject of analysis in both tasks. Future proposed projects also include looking at the evolution of US policy on China's human rights and also examining the relative influence of US and China in the UN human rights regimes.

We look forward to working with Rosie and Titus this year. Welcome to USC, and to the CIS community!

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