WASHINGTON—The Wilson Center has announced the members of the 2025-26 Wilson China Fellowship class, a China-focused non-residential fellowship supporting the next generation of American scholarship on China. It is made possible by the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

This class of 16 Wilson China Fellows includes scholars and practitioners working on a diverse range of policy-relevant issue areas vital to understanding the rise of China and its implications for the United States and the world. 

The 2025-26 class of Wilson China Fellows are listed below with the projects they will pursue during their time with the Wilson Center.

Alexsia Chan, Associate Professor of Government at Hamilton College; “Playing Great Powers off Each Other: US-China Competition in Southeast Asia”

Zack Cooper, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Lecturer at Princeton University; “Assessing China’s Turn Toward Power Projection (2000-2024)”

Jeffrey Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University; “You Get the Best of Both Worlds?[SB1]  Benchmarking China’s Civil-Military Integration Efforts”

Manfred Elfstrom, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia; “China and the American Labor Movement”

May Farid, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego; “Greening Global China”

Joshua Freedman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania; “The Ideological Roots of Social Policy Change in Xi’s China”

Timothy Grose, Associate Professor of China Studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; “The Surveillance State Comes Home: Disseminating the Decimation of Uyghur Identity Across Xinjiang”

Robert Lincoln Hines, Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology; “China’s Space Ambitions: Sources and Prospects for US-China Competition”

Denise Ho, Associate Professor at Georgetown University; “China’s Greater Bay Area in Historical Context”

Karrie Koesel, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame; “Educating the Next Generation: Political Education and Legitimacy in China”

Ning Leng, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University; “Chinese Companies in South America: Success, Failure, and Influence”

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; “Debunk the Myth: China’s Real Role and Progress in the Global Dedollarization Movement”

Scott Moore, Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania; “Competing for the Climate: The Future of Climate Action in a World Without US-China Cooperation”

Dawn Murphy, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy at the US National War College, National Defense University; “China’s Changing Views of, Interests in, and Approach to the Middle East”

Kerry Ratigan, Associate Professor at Amherst College; “From Zero to Hero: Can China Rescue Overseas Corporate Responsibility?”

Eric Schluessel, Associate Professor and Director at the George Washington University; “Violence and Resilience: Xinjiang at the Grassroots”