Dr. Diana Fu

Biography

Diana Fu is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and the director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and a public intellectual fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Fu is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, and her commentary has appeared in notable publications including the BBC World Service, Bloomberg TV, CBC, and Foreign Affairs. Fu holds a D.Phil. in Politics and an M.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She has previously held fellowships at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fu's award-winning book, “Mobilizing Masses: Control Contention in China,” was published in 2018 and is based on political ethnography of labor organizations, revealing the struggles of China’s migrant workers in their fight for organized rights. She has received several accolades for her articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Association.

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