Tin-bor Victoria Hui
(M.A. Columbia University, 1997, Ph.D. Columbia University 2000) Assistant Professor. Her research examines the dynamics of international politics, the origins of constitutional democracy, and the development of trade and capitalism in the broad sweeps of history, with a special focus on classical China and modern 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 University¹s Mershon Center for International Security Studies (for an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security). She has also published ³Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics² in International Organization, ³The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights² in The Journal of Political Philosophy, and ³Problematizing Sovereignty² in an edited volume International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World. She is currently working on ³Toward a Multicultural Approach to the Liberal Peace² and ³Development, Democracy, and the Two-tiered World: Lessons from the West for the Rest.² She has received fellowships from 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, and the East Asia Institute in Seoul. She serves on the Academic Advisors Committee of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Advising specialties:
Graduate programs and pre-/post-doctoral fellowships in political science
Research and teaching interests:
Comparative history of Asia and Europe, transformation of world politics, the emerging world order in the post-Cold War era, international security, state formation and state-society relations, contentious politics and resistance movements, political culture, Asian and Confucian values, Chinese politics
Contact Information
Email: thui@nd.edu
Office: 405 Decio
Phone: (574) 631-7570
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556