Aaron Glasserman

Aaron Glasserman is a historian of modern China whose research examines Chinese politics and social cleavages and their strategic implications for China’s foreign relations, economic policy, and security, as well as US-China competition. His broader research interests include the comparative and transnational study of nationalism, secularism, and Islamic religious and political movements. He is currently working on two book projects, one on the history of the Hui Muslim minority in late Qing and Republican China, and the other on the politics of ethnic policy in the People’s Republic of China. He also co-directs two collaborative research projects, one on Islamic sectarianism in China, and one on the recruitment and deployment of ethnic minority cadres in the PRC. His work has been published in The China Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, ChinaFile, Project Syndicate, and the National Bureau of Asian Research, as well as The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and the International Journal of Asian Studies. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University, as well as a 2023-24 China Fellow at the Wilson Center. He holds a PhD in History from Columbia University and a BA in Near Eastern Studies with certificates in Chinese and Arabic from Princeton University.