Joel Andreas (Visiting Scholar in Spring 2020)
Joel Andreas is a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include political contention, social inequality, and social change in contemporary China. Andreas served as the director of the East Asian Studies Program at Johns Hopkins from 2011 to 2013. He teaches social theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as courses on political sociology and contemporary Chinese society. He has held visiting positions at the University of Sydney, the University of Adelaide, and Hong Kong University. His first book titled Rise of the red engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the origins of China’s new class was published by Stanford University Press in 2009. His second book, Disenfranchised: The rise and fall of industrial citizenship in China, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
For more information on Andreas’s work: https://soc.jhu.edu/