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Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow - Class of Fall 2024
Iza Ding is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She holds a BA in political science and Russian and Eastern European studies from the University of Michigan and a PhD in government from Harvard University. Her research explores modernity and its discontents, especially in relation to the environment, climate change, nationalism, and ideology. Ding is the author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell University Press, 2022), in which she examines China’s street-level environmental bureaucracy through the notion of “performative governance.” She is a member of the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network and the National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectual Program, among others.