Faculty

Hurst, William
Assistant Professor

Office: BAT 3.108
Phone: 512-232-7208
whurst@austin.utexas.edu
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Education: Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005; B.A. (Political Science and East Asian Languages and Civilizations) and M.A. (Social Sciences) from the University of Chicago in 1998.

Research interests:
Labor Politics, Political Economy, Contentious Politics, Social Protection, Social Inequality, Politics of Courts and Legal Institutions.

Countries and Areas of Specialization: China, Indonesia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics

Recent Publications:
Previous publications include articles in: Studies in Comparative International Development, The China Quarterly, China Information and Issues and Studies. His book, The Chinese Worker After Socialism, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2009. He is also the co-editor of China’s Shattered Rice Bowl: Laid-off Workers in a Workers’ State, forthcoming from Palgrave-MacMillan. He is currently working on several articles, including one comparing state responses to contention by Chinese laid