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 Dr. Baogang Guo,
President, Associate Professor of Political Science at Dalton State College. He
holds a Ph.D. degree from Brandeis University and a Master's degree from Zhengzhou
University. He is a Research Associate of China Research Center
in Atlanta, GA, and associate editor of the Journal of Chinese Political
Science. His research interests include comparative public policy, political
culture, and political legitimacy. He co-edited China in Search of Harmonious
Society (Lexington Books, 2008) and Challenge Facing Chinese Political
Development (Lexington Books, 2007) with Sujian Guo, and is an associate editor of China Today
(Greenwood Press, 2005). He authored six book chapters and many articles which
appeared on referred academic journals such as Asian Survey, Journal of
Chinese Political Science, Modern China Studies, Journal of Comparative Asian
Development, Twenty-first Century, and American Journal of China
Studies.
Contact: Tel: (706) 272-2678, Fax: (706)
272-2698, e-mail: bguo@daltonstate.edu
 Dr.
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, President-elect, Associate Professor in the
Department of International Relations and Associate Director of Center for
US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Francisco,
California. His research interests
include
China
’s integration into the global economic system,
China
’s interactions with multinational corporations, Chinese multinational
corporations, Sino-Japanese relations, and Chinese territorial and maritime
issues. He is a co-editor of Harmonious World and China’s New Foreign Policy (Lanham: Lexington
Books, 2008), a co-editor of and contributor to Power and the Purse: Economic
Statecraft, Interdependence, and National Security (London: Frank Cass,
2000), and the author of nearly 20 book chapters and refereed journal articles.
His articles have appeared in the
China
Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary
China
, Geopolitics, Security Studies, and International Interactions.
At SFSU, he is the International Relations Department’s instructor for
courses on Chinese Foreign Policy. Contact:
Tel: (415) 405-2481, Fax: (415) 338-2280,
Email jmfblanc@sfsu.edu
 Dr. Sujian Guo,
Director for Public Relations, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of
Center for US-China Policy Studies (CUSCPS) at San
Francisco State University. He is Editor of the Journal of Chinese Political
Science and Editor of Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington's
book series "Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development."
His
research interest include comparative politics, Chinese/Asian politics, US-China
relations, communist and post-communist studies, democratic transition, and the
political economy of East and Southeast Asia. He has published more than 30
articles both in English and Chinese. His authored and edited
books include
The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism (2006);
Post-Mao China: from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism? (2000); China
in Search of a Harmonious Society (2008); "Harmonious World" and
China's New Foreign Policy (2008); New Dimensions of Chinese Foreign
Policy (2007); Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
(2007); China's "Peaceful Rise" in the 21st Century (2006); China
in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities (2006).
Contact:
Tel: (415) 338-7523, Fax: (415) 338-2391, e-mail: sguo@sfsu.edu
Websites: http://bss.sfsu.edu/sguo/ and
http://cuscps.sfsu.edu/
 Dr.
Yanmin Yu, Treasurer, Professor and Department Chair of Mass
Communication at University
of
Bridgeport. Elected Distinguished Professor of the Year at University
of
Bridgeport 2003-2004. Awarded Fulbright Scholarship in
2005 to
Australia
and 2000 to
Egypt
and Israel. Research interests include media and society, media and foreign
policy, media and international relations, and intercultural communication.
Recent publications include “The Role of the Media: A Case Study of
China’s Media Coverage of the U.S. War in Iraq” in Y. Hao and S. Lin
(Eds.), China’s Foeign Policy Making:
societal Force and Chinese American Policy, London: Ashgate, 2005;
“Using Media to Get into the Whitehouse: Clashes between American Media and
American Politics in X. Wang & G. Liu (Eds.), Social
and Behavioral Science, Volume
III
of On the Frontiers of Science,
Tsinghua University Press 2005; and “Politics
in Taiwan’s Broadcasting and Television” 2004. Contact: Tel:
203-576-4157 and Emails: yanmin@bridgeport.edu
 Dr. Dali
Yang, Director for
Research, Professor of
Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the
University of Chicago. He was previously the director of the East Asian
Institute in Singapore at the National University of Singapore and is a former
Chairman
of the
Department of Political
Science and former Director of the Committee on International Relations
at
The University of
Chicago. Among
his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the
Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004);
Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change
Since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996); Beyond
Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997). He is
also editor of Discontented Miracle (World Scientific, 2007), and co-editor of
Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng
China (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He
was a team member and contributor to The United States and the Rise of
China and India, by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Professor Yang
has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including
American Political Science Review and World Politics. He is
currently a member of the advisory board of China Telecom Group, a member of
the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and co-chair of the China
Roundtable of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Contact:
Tel: 773-702-8054, Email:
daliyang@uchicago.edu
 Dr.
Dennis Hickey, Director for Membership, James F. Morris Professor of Political Science at
Missouri State University. His research focuses on relations between America,
Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. Dr. Hickey has published roughly fifty
journal articles and book chapters and he is the sole author of four books.
In addition to these books and articles, he has contributed op-ed pieces to a
number of newspapers including the China Daily, Chicago Tribune,
Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Taipei Times.
During the spring semester of 2008, Dr. Hickey was a Fulbright Scholar at the
China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China. Contact: Tel:
417-836-5850, Fax: 417-836-6655, email:
dennishickey@missouristate.edu.
 Dr. Jin Zeng,
Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Assistant Professor in the
Department of International Relations at the Florida International
University. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2007.
Her research interest includes Chinese political economy, privatization
in transitional economies, and international relations of East Asia. Her
dissertation is entitled, "Performing Privatization: The Restructuring of
Small and Medium Public Enterprises in China." Contact: Tel:
305-348-0395, Fax: 305-348-6138, email:
jzeng@fiu.edu.
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Best Paper Selection Committee
Dr. He Li, Merrimack College (Chair)
Dr. Yuchao Zhu, University of Regina
Dr. Josef Gregory Mahoney, Grand Valley State University
Doctoral Student Best Paper Selection Committee
Dr. Greg Moore, Eckerd College (Chair)
Dr. John Kennedy, University of
Kansas
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