New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference

Yale University, August 27-28, 2025

Application materials due by May 5, 2025

We invite advanced PhD students and post-doctoral fellows who study Chinese domestic and international politics to apply for the fifth New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference at Yale on August 27-28, 2025. The New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference is an opportunity to get feedback on job market papers and job talks with peers, conference co-organizers, and invited senior scholars.

The papers should be based on original, rigorous research, employing quantitative or qualitative methods. The in-person conference is open exclusively to job market candidates for the 2025 job market. Successful applicants are fully funded for travel, lodging, and food.

 Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a full job market paper or dissertation chapter (for chapters, we would prefer an empirical chapter with a short summary of the theory), and a letter of support from the dissertation committee chair. Application materials are due by May 5 by email attachment to newfaceschina2025@gmail.com. The letter of support should be emailed separately to that address and should endorse the applicant’s decision to be on the job market in 2025, with the subject heading including the full name of the applicant.  

Fiona Cunningham, University of Pennsylvania

Taylor Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Melanie Manion, Duke University

Daniel Mattingly, Yale University

Yuhua Wang, Harvard University