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Amanda Ziyi Fu

Program Area(s):  Political Theory; International Relations

Regional Specialization(s):  Asia

Dissertation Title:

For or Beyond the Nation?: Early Twentieth-Century Feminist Anticolonial Visions in China, Taiwan, and Manchuria

Dissertation Committee:  El Amine, Loubna (Chair); Dietz, Mary; Zamperini, Paola

Research Interests: anticolonial and postcolonial thought, feminist political theory, comparative political theory, and critical theory

Conference Presentations:

  • "Dreams of Love: He-Yin Zhen and Emma Goldman on Sex, Revolution, and Anarchism," American Political Science Association (Sept 2025) and the Association for Political Theory (Nov 2025)
  • "The Gender of Literature and Genre of Politics: Xiao Hong’s Exilic Realism," Western Political Science Association (Apr 2026) and American Political Science Association (Sept 2026)
  • "Silence as Refusal, Care as Protest: On How to See Utopias," Association for Political Theory (Oct 2023), Western Political Science Association (Mar 2024), and the Association for Political Science (Sept 2024)
  • "Against the Social as Mere Catastrophe: Common Sense, Reification and Potential for the Political," The 16th Annual Arendt Circle (June 2023)

Honors/Awards:

  • May 2026 Spring Centennial Center Research Grant (American Political Science Association)
  • May 2026 Marvin and Carol Soroos Graduate Research and Travel Award (Political Science, Northwestern University)
  • Oct 2025 The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Conference Funding (SPAN, Northwestern University)
  • Sep 2024 Interdisciplinary GA-ship, Instructor of Record (Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University)
  • Dec 2024 International Dissertation Research Travel Grant (Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University)
  • Dec 2024 Graduate Research Grant (The Graduate School, Northwestern University)
  • Jun 2023 Conference Travel Grant (The Graduate School, Northwestern University)
  • Jan 2023 Interdisciplinary GA-ship, Instructor of Record (Chicago Field Studies, Northwestern University)
  • Jun 2022 Minar Memorial Summer Award (Political Science, Northwestern University)
  • Sept 2021- Present Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Critical Theory (Critical Theory, Northwestern University)