Ze Han

Ze Han

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University

Email: zeh@princeton.edu

Welcome! My name is Ze Han. I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where I am affiliated with the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG). I study international political economy, focusing on the political ramifications of China’s rise.

I am on the 2024-25 academic job market.

My dissertation is advised by Professors Helen V. Milner (chair), Rory Truex, and James Raymond Vreeland. I examine how China’s evolving international economic engagement, especially through foreign direct investments (FDI) and trade, influences policy-making processes, voting behavior, and public opinion in advanced democracies.

Prior to my time at Princeton, I earned a B.A. in International Politics from the University of International Relations in China and a double M.A. in Diplomacy and Public Policy from Peking University in China and the University of Tokyo in Japan, both with the highest honors.

You can download my CV here.

Working Papers

  1. Han, Ze, Rory Truex, and Naijia Liu. Measuring Political Attitudes With Word Association (revised & resubmitted, Public Opinion Quarterly).
  2. Han, Ze, Helen V. Milner, and Kris James Mitchener. The Deep Roots of American Populism (under review).
  3. Han, Ze, and Helen V. Milner. The First Wave of Globalization and the Electoral Populism in the United States.
  4. Han, Ze. How State Legislators Respond to Chinese Ownership of U.S. Agricultural Land.

Teaching