Jennifer Rudolph

Jennifer Rudolph is Professor of Asian History and International/Global Studies and Director of the East Asia Hub at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI); she formerly served as the executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard China Fund at Harvard University. She is a political historian of late imperial and modern China, with interests in reform efforts, geopolitics, and the Taiwan Strait. She is also very involved in globalizing college-level STEM curricula.

Rudolph is a member of the National Committee of US-China Relations and comments frequently on current affairs. She received her PhD degree from the University of Washington and her BA from the University of Chicago. She co-edited The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations (with Maria Adele Carrai and Michael Szonyi, Harvard University Press, 2022) and The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power (with Michael Szonyi, Harvard 2018). She also wrote Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform (Cornell East Asia Series, 2008). She is a long-term Research Associate at the Fairbank Center and a founding member of the Urban China Research Network, serving on its board for six years.