Xinhui Jiang (蒋心慧) is Assistant Professor at Nanjing University, China and her research examines gender and politics, local elections, representation, and interjurisdictional relations in China. Her work relies primarily on fieldwork and statistical analysis of original datasets. In the past five years, she has conducted fieldwork in 19 counties and nine prefectures across China. Before joining NJU, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Freie University Berlin, Germany.
Her research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), the American Political Science Association, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, and the Center for the Study of Diversity at the University of Delaware. Her work has appeared on Government and Opposition, The China Quarterly, Regional Studies, Politics & Gender, and Journal of Contemporary China, among others.
Dr. Jiang holds her PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware (US), and a BA in Political Science from Xiamen University (China). She is from Hunan, China, and has lived in Xiamen, Taipei, Benin City (Nigeria), Newark (US), and Berlin. She is currently based in Shanghai and Nanjing, China.