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1 Sara A. Newland Contact Information Interests Ash Center for Dem. Governance and Innovation Phone: Harvard Kennedy School Sara Newland[AT]hks[DOT]harvard[DOT]edu 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 74 Website: scholar.harvard.edu/snewland Cambridge, MA Chinese and Taiwanese domestic politics, political economy of development, authoritarianism, ethnic politics, civil society in authoritarian regimes, East Asian regional politics Employment Smith College (Fall 2018 ) Assistant Professor of Government. Villanova University ( ) Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Affiliate in Asian Studies. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government ( , ) China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Harvard University ( ) Full-time lecturer in the Expository Writing Program. Designed and taught two sections per semester of a writing-intensive first-year seminar, The Rise of China, which introduced students to major themes in contemporary Chinese politics and to college-level writing. Education Ph.D., Political Science, August 2015 Dissertation: Diversity and Distribution: Essays on Local Governance and Public Service Provision in Multiethnic China Dissertation Committee: Kevin O Brien, Laura Stoker, Leonardo Arriola, Edward Miguel Fields: Comparative Politics (with distinction), East Asian Politics (with distinction) 2009 Peter H. Odegard Memorial Award winner (awarded annually to the top third-year graduate student on the basis of coursework and comprehensive examinations) M.A., Political Science, May 2007 M.A. Essay: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Regional Security Complex Theory and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Advisor: T.J. Pempel) Wellesley College B.A.(magna cum laude), Political Science (with departmental honors), May 2003 Publications Innovators and Implementers: The Multilevel Politics of Civil Society Governance in Rural China. Forthcoming, China Quarterly. Which Public? Whose Goods? What We Know (and What We Don t) About Public Goods in Rural China. China Quarterly 228 (December 2016): Responding to China s Rise: US and EU Strategies, edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal and Sara A. Newland Springer. 1

2 Introduction. (with Vinod K. Aggarwal), pp In Responding to China s Rise: US and EU Strategies, edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal and Sara A. Newland Springer. Working Papers More than Multiple Choice: A Toolbox for Incorporating Clickers into Political Science Courses (with Bridget Black, under review) Identity and Local Representation in Taiwan (with John Chung-En Liu) Countering Liberation Technology: Internet Access and Media Freedom in Autocracies (with Peter Lorentzen and Zenan Wang) Accountability and Public Service Provision in China s Minority Areas The Subnational Logic of Regional Trade-Security Linkages: China s Internal Security Challenges and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Hot Economics, Cold Politics? A Nonparametric Event Analysis Reexamining Economic Linkages and Political Tensions in Sino-Japanese Relations (with Kristi Govella) Work in ProgressDiversity and Distribution: Local Governance in Multiethnic China (book manuscript) Mapping Organizational Autonomy: The Spatial Politics of Civil Society Organizing in China Presentations AAS: 2016, 2017 APSA: 2010, 2013, 2017 SPSA: 2016 MPSA: 2014 WPSA: 2010, 2012 Who Governs Multiethnic China? University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China (2017). Identity and Local Representation in Taiwan. Temple University Comparative Politics Colloquium (2017). Diversity and Distribution, MIT Comparative Politics Colloquium (2016); Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School (2015). The Subnational Logic of Regional Trade-Security Linkages. Conference on Linking Trade and Security in Asia, The East-West Center (2012). The Political Geography of Public Service Provision in China s Poor and Minority Areas. Graduate Seminar on China, University Services Center, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2012). Other Writing Sara A. Newland and John Chung-En Liu Identity and Local Representation in Taiwan. Pre-analysis plan registered with EGAP (Evidence in Governance and Politics). Sara A. Newland Growing Apart? Challenges to High-Quality Local Governance and Public Service Provision on China s Ethnic Periphery. Ash Center Policy Brief, Harvard Kennedy School. Sara A. Newland Review: Thomas Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Pacific Affairs 87(1):

3 Sara A. Newland Review: Björn Alpermann, ed., Politics and Markets in Rural China. Chinese Journal of Political Science 19(2): Sara A. Newland Review: Minzi Su, China s Rural Development Policy: Exploring the New Socialist Countryside. Chinese Journal of Political Science 16(1): Sara A. Newland Review: Robert E. Gamer, ed., Understanding Contemporary China. Chinese Journal of Political Science 14(2): Honors and Awards Fuehrbringer Summer Research Grant, Harvard College Writing Program (2013, 2014) American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 2012 (alternate) National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2010 Reinhard Bendix Memorial Award, UC-Berkeley Institute for International Studies, Liu Graduate Fellowship, UC-Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, Boren Fellowship, National Security Education Program, (declined) Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, Spring 2010 & Spring 2012 APSA Travel Grant, Fall 2010 Peter H. Odegard Award, UC-Berkeley Political Science Department, 2009 Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-Grant, UC Office of the President, 2009 Institute for East Asian Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2009 Horton-Hallowell Fellowship for Graduate Study, Wellesley College, 2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2008 (honorable mention) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Mandarin Chinese, Teaching Experience Villanova University Political Science Department Comparative Political Economy (graduate seminar, Fall 2016) Chinese Politics (graduate seminar, Spring 2017) Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate lecture course, Spring 2017) Harvard College Writing Program The Rise of China (first-year writing course, ) UC Berkeley Political Science Department Head Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Empirical Analysis and Quantitative Methods, Prof. Laura Stoker (Fall 2010) GSI for Extreme Encounters with Power, Prof. Kevin O Brien (Spring 2009) GSI for Introduction to International Relations, Prof. Amy Gurowitz (Fall 2009) GSI for Chinese Politics, Prof. Kevin O Brien (Fall 2011) Awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award by the UC Berkeley Graduate 3

4 Council ( ) Awarded the Travers Department Commendation for Excellence in Teaching ( and ) Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong Taught English and General Education classes to English-language learners ( ) Professional Service Villanova University Political Science Department: Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee; Undergraduate Program Committee, ( ); Comprehensive Oral Exam Committee (MA program) Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal for Peace and Justice Studies Panel Organizer, AAS (2017), APSA (scheduled 2017) Panel Chair, SPSA (2016) Discussant, Harvard-Yenching and SSK Conference on Human Rights and the Environment (2016), SPSA (2016), UC-Berkeley Comparative Politics Colloquium Other Professional Experience Project Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, Berkeley, California USA Research Assistant, Berkeley, California USA China s Military Rise M. Taylor Fravel, MIT Everyday Forms of Resistance Kevin O Brien, University of California-Berkeley US China Economic & Security Review Commission, Washington, DC USA Research Fellow May August 2008 Conducted background research on China s outgoing FDI; co-organized a hearing on the environmental impact of China s energy consumption. Skills Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (highly proficient) Statistical Packages: R, Stata Applications: L A TEX, ArcGIS, QGIS References 4

5 Kevin O Brien Laura Stoker Professor of Political Science Associate Professor of Political Science (510) (510) kobrien@berkeley.edu stoker@socrates.berkeley.edu Vinod K. Aggarwal Leonardo Arriola Professor of Political Science Associate Professor of Political Science (510) (510) vinod@berkeley.edu larriola@berkeley.edu Peter Lorentzen Assistant Professor of Political Science lorentzen@berkeley.edu 5