Vita — Stephen B. Herschler

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 2000-2001

Ph.D. University of Chicago, Political Science, June 2000

Exchange Scholar, UC Berkeley, Political Science Department, Spring Semester 1993

Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center, Nanjing, China, Spring Semester 1992

Advanced Intensive Chinese, Middlebury College, Summer Session 1991

M.A. University of Chicago, Political Science, 1990

Intermediate Intensive Chinese, Tunghai University, Taiwan. Summer Session 1989

B.A. Princeton University, Politics, Magna Cum Laude, African Studies Certificate, 1986

Grants and Fellowships

Senior Fellow, Institute for International Research, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Spring 2002

University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2000-2001

Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1994 - 1995

Committee for Scholarly Communication with China Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1993 - 1994

Social Science Research Council International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1991 - 1992

University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship, 1988 - 1991, 1992 - 1993

Languages: strong reading and spoken Chinese, once fluent French, rudimentary Russian and Spanish Conference Presentations Market Ideology and State Power in China, presented at APSA panel I helped to organize on "Economic Concepts at Work: Ideas in the Transformation of Politics and Institutions," Washington, D.C. August 2000

Beyond Battle Lines: American Political Science and China, paper presented at panel on "The Space Between: Asian Studies and Other Academic Disciplines," Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston, March 1999

Local Administrative Identities in the Transition from Plan to Market, paper presented at a panel which I organized on "Reworking Identities in Reform-era China," AAS, Chicago, March 1997

Involuted Nationalism and State Self Subversion: authority, legitimacy and local autonomy in China's transition from command to market economy, paper presented at APSA; "Securing the Scaffolding: the changing form and function of Chinese administrative genres," poster presentation, San Francisco, August 1996

Presentation on county level administrative reform in contemporary China, Symposium on Comparative Reform in China and India, Marquette University, July 1996

Raiding the Nest: State-County Relations in a Socialist Market Economy, paper presented at a panel which I organized on "State Prerogatives and Local Politics in Republican and Post-Mao China," AAS, Honolulu, April 1996

Talks and Professional Experience

'The Dao of Chinese Political Economy: From Mao to Now,' talk delivered at the Hopkins Nanjing Center, Nanjing PRC, June 2002.

'Americans' Misperceptions of Max Weber,' Core Lecturette, Oglethorpe University, November 30, 2001.

'Movitations or Interests: Why Jiangsu Local Officials Do What They Do', talk delivered at the Berkeley China Colloquia, April 6, 2001.

Panelist on postdoctoral fellows' discussion of the '(Ir)relevance of Theory' for the study of China, Berkeley China Colloquia, October 19, 2001.

Discussant for Christian De Pee's presentation, 'Text as Practice: The Writing of Weddings in Pre-Modern China,' Berkeley China Colloquia, November 7, 2001.

Discussant for panel on 'Identities, Markets, and Morals,' March 2000. University of Chicago Conference on 'Socializing Knowledge: Transformation and Continuity in Post-Socialist Cultural Forms'

Organized and participated in an university symposium on ethnographic fieldwork, Fall 1999 'Fieldwork at the End of a Century: an Interdisciplinary Discussion,' hosted by the University of Chicago's Social Science and Humanities divisions with funding provided by the Ford Foundation

Editorial Intern at Wilder House: The Center for the Study of Politics, History and Culture, 1991-1994 Reviewing manuscripts for publication and meeting with authors to discuss research projects Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of Politics, Oglethorpe University, Fall 2001, Fall 2002- Courses include: Asian Politics, Chinese Politics, Political Development, Core II. Courses under development include: The Asian Diaspora in Atlanta, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Social Science Methods, Language and Politics.

Preceptor, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), Fall 1998 - Summer 2000 Duties included mentoring students, leading a section of the program's core class "Perspectives in Social Science Theory," advising students on researching and writing their MA theses, administrative responsibilities including admissions and funding decisions and program development

Co-instructor of survey class on 'Social Science Methods,' Winter 1999 Course designed to introduce MA students to practical skills and methodological techniques of archival research, participant observation, interviewing, questionnaires, and rational actor models

Comparative Politics M.A. Paper Workshop leader. Fall 1996 - Spring 1997 Guided first and second year political science graduate students in formulating and writing their theses

Teaching Assistant for Professor Dali Yang, Chinese Politics and Political Economy, Winter 1996

Guest Speaker, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, Spring 1994 Lectured (in Chinese) to Chinese administrators on administrative reform and US-PRC relations

Teaching Assistant for University of Chicago undergraduate core political economy course, Fall 1991

Princeton-in-Asia English Teacher, Dalian Institute of Technology, South China Normal University and the Attached Middle School (Guangzhou). Fall 1986 - Spring 1987, Spring 1988

Publications

The Sources of State Power in Communist China: Ideology and Organization in a Socialist Market Economy, University of Chicago Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Political Science, June 2000

The China Handbook, appendix providing chronology, glossary, biographies, and annotated bibliography for the post-Mao reform era; part of the series Regional Handbooks of Economic and Political Development: Prospects onto the 21st Century, Fitzroy Dearborn, Publishers, Summer 1997 "The 1994 Tax Reform: The Center Strikes Back." The China Economic Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 1995)

Research Experience

Current Research: 'Redistribution in a Socialist Market Economy: Local Government between State and Market.' Building upon my dissertation, and drawing upon materials gathered during recent research in Jiangsu, PRC, this project focuses on policy initiatives at the sub-national level to redress economic disparities within and between regions resulting from post-Mao market reforms.

Dissertation: 'The Sources of State Power in Communist China.' This research examines the master metaphor underlying official state ideology concerning political and economic development in post Southern Tour China, its relationship to Maoist understandings, and its reinterpretation by local officials. While the focus is contemporary China, the goal is to construct a theoretical framework interrelating ideology, organization, and economic behavior.

Ph.D. Qualifying Paper: 'Metaphor and Social Science Theory' This paper employs linguistic semantic field theory to explain how structure and significance are imparted to new or re-conceptualized fields of academic inquiry. Theoretical breakthroughs often result from a metaphorical process of transference from experiential domains which are already linguistically more coherently structured.

M.A. Thesis: 'Max Weber's Misappropriation by American Administrative Science' This paper argues that American administrative scientists' initial rejection of Weber's theory of bureaucracy arose from German and American academics' incommensurate professional interests and intellectual traditions.

B.A. Thesis: 'Decentralization and the Sous-Prefects of Senegal' This paper draws upon field research in Dakar and the Kaolack Region (Summer 1985) to explore the cultural and institutional impediments to decentralization reform in 1980s Senegal.

Junior Paper, Princeton University: 'Continuity and Change in the Position of Prefect' Informed by a Princeton-in-France internship in the French Senate and the Prefecture of Lyon (Summer 1984), this paper examines changes in the prefectoral system of government from Napoleonic times to devolution reforms of the 1980s.