Victoria Tin-bor Hui

Rank

Regular Faculty - Assistant Professor

Title

Faculty Fellow, The Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Faculty Fellow, The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Field(s)

Comparative Politics

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University 2000
M.A. Columbia University, 1997

Research and Teaching Interests

Comparative history of Asia and Europe, state formation and state-society relations, contentious politics and resistance movements, transformation of world politics, political culture, Asian and Confucian values, Chinese politics

Advising Specialties

Human rights NGOs; journalism; graduate programs; pre-/post-doctoral fellowships in political science

Biography

Hui's research examines the dynamics of state formation, the transformation of international politics, the origins of citizenship and democracy, and the development of trade and capitalism in the broad sweeps of history, with a special focus on historical China and historical Europe.

Her book War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005) won the 2006 Jervis-Schroeder Award from the American Political Science Association (for the best book on international history and politics) and the 2005 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies (for an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security).

A coauthored article "Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History" was awarded the best article in the European Journal of International Relations for the years 2007-09. She has also published "Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics" in International Organization, "The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights" in The Journal of Political Philosophy, and book chapters on "The Triumph of Domination in the Ancient Chinese System" and "Problematizing Sovereignty."

In addition to publishing in English, Hui has also extensively published in leading Chinese venues, including articles in World Economics and Politics and International Political Science, and a book with the Shanghai People's Publishing House. Her research has attracted the attention of Chinese IR scholars who have increasingly turned to Chinese history to develop an "International Relations theory with Chinese characteristics." Hui's second project examines war and the evolution and transformation of China through the whole span of Chinese history. She is preparing manuscripts on "Rethinking China: Zhongguo Between Central States and the Middle Kingdom," war and the making and unmaking of the Chinese state, the Tillyan paradigm and the study of Chinese state-making, war and citizenship rights in the Chinese tradition, China's expansion to the periphery, the balance of power in China's eras of division, Chinese history and implications for China's rise, and disputes over Sino-Tibetan history.

Hui has received fellowships and grants from the United States Institute of Peace, the Fulbright Fellowship Program, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the John M. Olin Institute at Harvard University, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Helen Kellogg Institute of International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the International Political Science Association (the Stein Rokkan Award), and the East Asia Institute in Seoul.

Hui grew up in Hong Kong and worked in the democracy movement. She serves on the Academic Advisors Committee of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

Office Hours

Tuesdays 4:30pm-6:00pm & Wednesdays 10:30am-12:00pm

Contact Information

Office: 405 Decio
Phone: 574-631-7570
Fax: 574-631-4405
Email: thui@nd.edu

Mailing Address

Department of Political Science
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556