Jonathan Hassid

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China Research Centre
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway
NSW 2007 Australia
email: jonathan.hassid@uts.edu.au

Employment

University of Technology, Sydney

•    Postoctoral Research Fellow, China Research Centre

o   July 2010—Present

Education

University of California, Berkeley

•    Ph.D., Political Science (May 2010)

o   Dissertation: Pressing Back—The Struggle for Control Over China’s Journalists

o   Committee: Kevin J. O’Brien (chair), Lowell Dittmer, Todd LaPorte, Tom Gold

o   Fields: Comparative Politics, East Asian Politics, Public Administration

•     M.A., Political Science (2004)

o   Master’s project: Power for Sale—The Political Rationale and Consequences of the PLA’s Business Empire, 1978-1998

Amherst College

•     B.A., Asian Languages and Civilizations (2002)

o   Magna Cum Laude, China Concentration

Publications

•      “Four Models of the Fourth Estate: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Journalists,” (Forthcoming).  China Quarterly.

•      “China’s Contentious Journalists: Reconceptualizing the Media,” (2008).  Problems of Post-Communism. Vol. 55, No. 4, (July/Aug.), 52-61

•      “Controlling the Chinese Media: An Uncertain Business,” (2008).  Asian Survey. Vol. 48, No. 3, (May/June), 414-30.

Working and Conference Papers

•     “Amplifying Silence: Uncertainty and Control Parables in Contemporary China” with Rachel E. Stern

o  Revise and resubmit, Comparative Political Studies

o  Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC (Fall, 2010)

o  Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans (Spring 2010)

•     “Time for Politics: Time Zones and the Politics of Centralization” with Bartholomew Watson

o  Submitted for publication

o   Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC (Fall, 2010)

•     “Guard Against Fire, Theft and Journalists: The Political Consequences of Chinese Media Corruption”

o   Presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (Spring, 2010)

•    “Pressing Back: The Struggle for Control over China’s Journalists”

o  Invited to present at the Workshop on Media in Contemporary Politics, Harvard University, (Spring 2009)

•     “Don’t Let Sleeping Blogs Lie: A Computer-Assisted Content Analysis of Chinese Blogs” with Elisa Oreglia and Xiao Qiang

o  Invited to present at the Conference on Public Diplomacy, Counterpublics and the Asia Pacific, University of San Francisco (Spring 2007)

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

•     Fall 2009: 
China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award


•     Spring 2009: 
Shung Ye Taiwanese Aboriginal Studies Fellowship (with Ray I. Orr)


•     Spring 2008: 
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship (China)


•     Spring 2006: 
Berkeley Graduate Division Academic Progress Award

•     2005-07: 
Amherst College John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship


•     Summer 2005: 
Center for Chinese Studies Summer Grant


•     Summer 2005: 
Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant


•     2003-05: 
Berkeley Graduate Division Fellowship


•     2004-05: 
Amherst College Memorial Fellowship


•     2004: 
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Grant


•     2003-04: 
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Grant

Teaching Interests

•     Comparative Politics

o  Introduction to Comparative Politics

o  Asian Politics

o  Chinese Politics

o  Thinking about the State

o  Power

•     Political Communication

o  Comparative Media Politics

o  The Media under Authoritarianism

•    Public Administration

o  Organization Theory

o  Governance Theory

•     International Relations

o  Introduction to International Relations

o  International Relations in Asia

Teaching Experience

•     Spring 2009: Graduate Student Instructor, Political Science 140e, Extreme Encounters with Power.  Prof: Kevin J. O’Brien


•    Spring 2007: Graduate Student Instructor, Political Science 143c, Chinese Politics.  Prof: Kevin J. O’Brien


•    Fall 2005: Graduate Student Instructor, Political Science 124c, Ethics and Justice in International Affairs.  Prof: Amy Gurowitz


•     Spring 2005: Graduate Student Instructor, Political Science 2, Introduction to Comparative Politics.  Prof: Andrew Janos


•     Fall 2004: Graduate Student Instructor, Political Science 120, Introduction to International Relations.  Prof: Amy Gurowitz

Academic Affiliations

Peking University (Beijing, China)

•     Visiting Scholar, Media and Communications Research Institute  (2007-2008

•     Exchange student, language training (Spring 2001)

Qinghua University (Beijing, China)

•     IUP Summer Abroad Program (Summer 2004)

Professional Activities

•     Spring 2009: 
Discussant on China’s media system and Internet at the Roundtable on New Media and Civil Society in China (UC Berkeley)

•     Fall 2008: 
Panelist on China’s media system and its implications for food safety.  At the 2008 Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability in Government: Holding China Accountable? Strategies for Protecting Consumers in a Globalized World. (UC Berkeley)

•     Fall 2005: 
Discussant for Seungjoo Lee’s paper, “The New Wave of FTAs in Northeast Asia: Common Interests and Different Strategies.” At the Northeast Asia’s New Institutional Architecture and Community-Building in a Post-9/11 World Conference (UC Berkeley)

Skills

•     Languages:

o   Mandarin Chinese

o   Latin

References

  • Kevin J. O’Brien
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley
  • 210 Barrows Hall, #1950
  • Berkeley, CA 94720
  • +1 510 642-4689
  • kobrien@berkeley.edu
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  • Lowell Dittmer
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley
  • 210 Barrows Hall, #1950
  • Berkeley, CA 94720
  • +1 510 642-4674
  • dittmer@berkeley.edu
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  • Todd LaPorte
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley
  • 210 Barrows Hall, #1950
  • Berkeley, CA 94720
  • +1 510 642-4673
  • tlaporte@berkeley.edu
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  • Tom B. Gold
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley
  • 446 Barrows Hall
  • Berkeley, CA 94720
  • +1 510 642-4760
  • tbgold@berkeley.edu