Anne Thurston

Director of the Grassroots China Initiative at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Schools

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Biography

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Expertise

Topics

Culture, Religion and Politics
Governance
Rural Development

Languages

Chinese

Background and Education

As director of the Grassroots China Initiative, works with local NGOs in China; former associate professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS and assistant professor at Fordham University; was China staff member at the Social Science Research Council; recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Endowment for the Humanities; member of the National Committee on US-China Relations; PhD, political science, University of California, Berkeley

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