June 2021 CURRICULUM VITAE: ELIZABETH JEAN PERRY Current Positions: Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Department of Government Harvard University 1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel. (617) 495-3369 or (617) 496-4536; Fax (617) 496-7206 email: [email protected] Academic Degrees: B.A. summa cum laude in Political Science, 1969 William Smith College, Geneva, NY M.A. in Political Science, 1971 University of Washington, Seattle, WA Ph.D. in Political Science, 1978 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Previous Positions: University of California-Berkeley, Robson Professor of Political Science: 1990-97 National Taiwan University, Visiting Professor of Political Science: 1990-91 University of Washington, Professor of International Studies: 1986-1990; Associate Professor: 1982-86; Assistant Professor: 1978-82 University of Arizona, Assistant Professor of Political Science: 1977-78 Foreign Languages: Mandarin Chinese (classical and modern), Japanese, French Honors and Awards: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow British Academy Corresponding Fellow President, Association for Asian Studies (2007-08) William Smith College Distinguished Alumna Award Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Honorary Doctorate of Letters Hobart and William Smith Colleges Honorary Doctorate of Letters World Forum of China Studies (Shanghai) Distinguished Contributions Award (2015) Fudan University Honorary Professor Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Honorary Research Fellow Sichuan University Honorary Professor 1 Nanjing University Honorary Professor East China Normal University Honorary Professor Central China Normal University Honorary Professor Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in the Humanities John Simon Guggenheim Fellow University of Washington Jackson School Service Award for distinguished teaching Yale University Hume Lecture in East Asian Studies, 1990 Whitman College Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Lecture, 1996 Duke University Nichol Lecture, 1998 Kenyon College Storer Lecture, 2000 University of Oregon Admiral David Jeremiah Lecture, 2002 & 2015 Wesleyan University Mansfield Freeman Lecture, 2004 Tufts University Wooten Lecture, 2005 University of New England President’s Distinguished Lecture, 2006 East China Normal University Daxia Forum Lecture, 2006 Political Economy of the World System Annual Conference, Plenary Lecturer, 2007 Portland State University Trena Gillette Memorial Lecture, 2008 Hong Kong Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Distinguished Lecturer, 2009 Seoul National University “Asia and the World” Public Lecture, 2009 Singapore Management University Celia Moh Distinguished Lecturer, 2011 Brown University “Year of China” Distinguished Lecturer, 2012 Nanjing University “Approaches to Chinese Society” Keynote Lecture, 2012 Indian Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture, 2013 Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, 2014 William and Mary University, Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Chinese Studies, 2015 Claremont Colleges Atheneum Lecture, 2016 Zhejiang University Centennial Lecture, 2016 Northeastern University Hong Liu Lecture in Asian Studies, 2018 Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences Distinguished Lecture, 2019 Heinz I Eulau Award of the American Political Science Association, 2009, for best article in PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS (“Chinese Conceptions of ‘Rights’”) Tsinghua Journal Prize for best article of the year, 2012 (Chinese translation of “Reclaiming the Chinese Revolution”) John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association for best book in East Asian history, 1993 (SHANGHAI ON STRIKE) International Labor History Association "Book of the Year" award, 1993 (SHANGHAI ON STRIKE) Lingua Franca breakthrough book, 1997 (PROLETARIAN POWER) Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1997 (PROLETARIAN POWER) Academic and Public Service: Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-) Board of Directors and President, Association for Asian Studies Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (1998-02) Director, Seattle China Council (1981-87) 2 Board of Directors, National Committee on US-China Relations Board of Trustees, United Board for Higher Education in Asia (2008-12) Council on Foreign Relations Comparative Politics Section Executive Committee, American Political Science Association Executive Committee, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Senior Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Executive Committee, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Steering and Executive Committees, Harvard Asia Center Senior Advisory Committee, Harvard Asia Center Executive and Steering Committees, Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Asia Center Publications Committee, Harvard University International Advisory Council, Yenching Academy, Peking University International Advisory Committee, Contemporary China Center, National Tsinghua University International Advisory Committee, University Services Centre for Chinese Studies Co-chair, Advisory Committee, Shanghai Research Institute, Fudan University Director, “Grassroots Political Reform and Good Governance in China” research project, Harvard Research Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Government (1998-03) Co-director, Harvard-Berkeley Center for Labor Politics (1998-01) Joint Committee on China Studies (JCCS), SSRC & ACLS (1992-96) Series Editor, “State and Society in East Asia,” Rowman and Littlefield Press Editorial Board, STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Editorial Board, COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES Editorial Board, TSINGHUA SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Editorial Board, CHINA QUARTERLY Editorial Board, FRONTIERS IN CHINESE HISTORY (2010-2020) Consulting Board, INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY Editorial Board, TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Editorial Board, JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA Editorial Board, CONTEMPORARY CHINA STUDIES (Nanjing University) Editorial Advisor, POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW Editorial Board, ASIAN SURVEY (1991-02) Editorial Board, WORLD POLITICS (1993-99) Editorial Board, MODERN CHINA (1978-90) Editorial Committee, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS (1996-98) China Book Review Editor, JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (1983-86) Book Review Editor, MODERN CHINA (1988-90) Program Committee, Association for Asian Studies (1991-93) Program Committee, American Political Science Association (2003-04) Levenson Book Prize Committee, AAS, Chair (1994-96; 2004-05) China Selection Committee of American Council of Learned Societies (1988-90) Committee on Advanced Study in China of CSC-PRC (1983-85; 1991-93 ) China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (1983-86) Executive Board, China Council of the Asia Society (1985-87) Visiting Review Committees: UC San Diego History Department (1993), UC Santa Cruz Politics Board (1994), Harvard University East Asian Studies Programs (1995), Princeton 3 University Politics Department (2002), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Social Sciences (2004), University of Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (2006), Yale University East Asian Studies (2008), National University of Singapore (2011), New School India-China Institute (2018) Co-organizer, Workshop on "Recent Reforms in China" (Harvard University, 1983) Co-organizer, International Symposium on "Modern Shanghai" (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 1988) Co-organizer, Conference on "Civil Society in Urban China" (Woodrow Wilson Center, 1992) Organizer, Conference on "The Shanghai Labor Movement" (UC-Berkeley, 1993) Organizer, Conference on "East Asian Labor in Comparative Perspective" (Lake Tahoe, 1993) Co-organizer, Symposium on "The Chinese Work Unit" (UC-Berkeley, 1994) Co-organizer, Conference on “Changing Concepts of Citizenship in Modern China” (Harvard University, 1999) Organizer, Workshop on “Neo-liberal Reforms and Strategies of Labor Protest in Industrializing Countries” (Harvard University, 1999) Co-organizer, Conference on “Contentious Politics in the Third World” (Harvard, 2000) Co-organizer, Conference on “Shanghai Urban Culture in Comparative Perspective” (New York University, 2001) Co-organizer, Conference on “Political Culture and Political Experimentation in Shanghai” (Harvard University, 2001) Co-organizer, Conference on “Repositioning Hong Kong and Shanghai in Modern World History” (University of Hong Kong, 2002) Co-organizer, Conference on “Chinese Millennialism in Comparative Perspective: Political Authority and Protest,” (Harvard University and Boston University, 2002) Co-organizer, Conference on “Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China” (Harvard University, October 2004) Co-organizer, Workshop on “Communist Resilience in Comparative Perspective” (Harvard University, April 2006) Co-organizer, “International Conference in Memory of Professor Benjamin Schwartz” (East China Normal University, Shanghai, December 2006) Co-organizer, “Adaptive Authoritarianism: The Revolutionary Origins of Chinese Policy Reform” (Trier University and Harvard University, June 2006 and 2007) Co-organizer, “Rule and Reform in the Asian Giants: China and India Compared” (Harvard University, December 2007) Organizer, Association for Asian Studies special roundtable on “Rule and Reform in the Asian Giants: China and India Compared” (Atlanta, 2008) Organizer, Association for Asian Studies panel on “Mao’s Invisible Hand: Adaptive Governance