莊梅茜🚀🐴，中國傳媒大學學士，香港中文大學碩士，澳洲國立大學政治學博士，浦江人才計劃入選者。研究興趣包括政治社會學，政治文化與政治心理，草根政治與基層治理。現教授《政治學原理》和《政治人類學》兩門本科課程。論文發表在Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics & Society, Journal of Contemporary China,  Journal of Chinese Political Science, Social Science Journal, 《開放時代》，《國外社會科學》，《中國研究》等國內外期刊。

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I am an assistant professor in political science at Fudan University. My research interests include citizen politics, social activism and comparative studies of domination and resistance. As a political sociologist, I focus on grassroots politics and governance in China. One line of inquiry looks into the question of how the relatively powerless and downtrodden act on their own subordination and exploitation in less democratic environments. A second line of inquiry seeks to understand the origins and development of political inequality in human society, especially the power dynamics  between men, environment, social structure and organization of work. I use both ethnographic and quantitative methods to address these issues. My work has appeared in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics and Society, and Journal of Contemporary China, etc. 

I obtained my PhD in political science (2018) from the Australian National University. I completed undergraduate studies with the highest distinction at the Communication University of China and received my Master of Arts from CUHK, where I was granted Intercultural Studies Scholarship.  In 2020, I was awarded Pujiang Talented Scholar by the Shanghai government.  

Originally from Wenzhou, I lived and worked in the UK, Australia and Hong Kong SAR. My hobbies include open-water swimming, hiking, gardening and watching wildlife. I am an amateurish ecologist. My interest in the relationship between animals, plants and environments has inspired me to combine political science and sociological theories with ecological systems models in studying humans' political behaviours.