Habi Zhang is an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Habi is a Chinese national born and raised in rural China who has studied and lived in America for the past eight years. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Purdue University and Master’s in Public Policy from Pepperdine University. She is a political comparativist who studies totalitarianism, mass movements, propaganda, ideology, and Chinese politics, among other topics.
Her dissertation, “The Confucian Road to Totalitarianism: How Confucianism Predisposed the Chinese to Totalitarian Rule,” challenges the conventional wisdom of research methods, arguments, and conclusions in the literature of totalitarianism, Confucianism, and Chinese politics. In addition to her scholarly work, she writes extensively about contemporary American politics for the public press.
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