Qin Huang
Program Area(s): Comparative Politics; Methods
Dissertation Title:
Patchwork Capitalism: Institutional Change and Regional Economies in China
Dissertation Committee: James Mahoney and Iza Ding (co-chair); Jordan Gans-Morse; Jay Seawright; Yuhua Wang (Harvard)
Research Interests: Comparative Political Economy Chinese Politics Institutional Change Bureaucratic Politics Computational Social Science Comparative and Historical Sociology Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Publications:
- "Towards Machine-Learning Enhanced QCA: Optimizing Coverage and Empirical Significance”, Quality and Quantity, Forthcoming.
Honors/Awards:
- Buffet Dissertation Fellowship Award (full tuition and stipend), 2025 - 2026
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000), 2025
- Marvin & Carol Soroos Research & Travel Award ($6,000), 2025
- Humane Studies Fellowship, George Mason University ($10,000), 2024 & 2025
- Northwestern Buffett International Dissertation Research Travel Award ($14,000), 2024 & 2025
- First Generation Scholars Travel Grant, American Political Science Association 2024
- Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University ($3,000), 2023
- Northwestern Buffet Global Impacts Fellowship (full tuition and stipend), 2023-2024
- Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University (full tuition and stipend), 2017 - 2019