Yuen Yuen Ang

Office Address: University of Michigan, 7719 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | Email: [email protected] | Website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/yy-ang/ | Office: 734-936-0089

HIGHLIGHTS

. Inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association, “for impactful contributions to the study of comparative politics” . Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship [on] the most pressing issues of our times” . Book awards for “game-changing” and “field-shifting” research in How China Escaped the Poverty Trap . Media profiles and reviews in CGTN, Foreign Affairs, The Diplomat, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wire China, Dushu (China), Pengpai (China), etc. . Thematic focus: political economy of development in the age of disruption; adaptive governance; institutions for promoting public- and private-sector innovation . China expertise: Chinese political economy, global impact of China’s rise, US-China relations

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Department of Political Science. Associate Professor, 2017- present; Assistant Professor, 2011-2016.

Columbia University. School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA). Assistant Professor. 2010- 2011

Fellow

Columbia University. Columbia World Projects Fellow. 2021-present.

Visiting Appointment

Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Senior Visiting Fellow. October 2018.

EDUCATION

Stanford University. M.A., 2003, Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010

Colorado College. B.A. in Political Science, 2002, graduated Summa Cum Laude . Recipient of full scholarship for international students (two awarded each year) . Edith Bramhall Award for Best Thesis in Political Science

HIGHLIGHTED AWARDS & HONORS

Career Award 2020 Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar, Awarded by the American Political Science Association “to a scholar up to ten years post-PhD whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative

politics” (Featured in APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter Fall 2020) Fellowships 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for “high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to the most pressing issues of our times,” Awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York 2017-19 National Committee of US-China Relations, Fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program (20 fellows selected each cohort) 2009-10 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS, Early Career Fellowship, for early doctoral recipients (25 selected from 2008-09 completion cohort) 2008-09 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS, Early Career Fellowship, for doctoral completion (65 awards) Book Awards & Honors 2018 Viviana Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology, Awarded by the American Sociological Association 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for Outstanding Book in International Relations, Comparative Politics, or Political Economy 2017 Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 Others 2020 Emergent Ventures, Grant to support book manuscript The Age of Disruption 2018 Foreign Affairs Best of Print 2018, for essay “Autocracy with Chinese Characteristics” 2017 Smith Richardson Foundation, Research Grant for China’s Gilded Age 2017 IBM Center for the Business of Government, Research Award, “Integrating Big Data and Thick Data” 2014 Winner of GDN global essay competition on “The Future of Development Assistance,” sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($20,000 award; 13 winners selected worldwide from 1,470 submissions) 2014 University of Michigan, Department of Political Science, Eldersveld Prize for Outstanding Research Contributions

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2020. China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press. Released 30 July 2020. . Reviewed in The Economist; media mention in Axios, BBC World News, Financial Times, CNBC- TV18,