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Katherine Palmer Kaup Furman Hall 222A | 864.294.3150 | kate.kaup@furman.edu B.A. Princeton University |
Dr. Kaup specializes in Chinese ethnic policy and the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law. She is the author of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China and several articles on the impact that state policy and administrative divisions have had on ethnic identity and mobilization in China’s southwest and in Xinjiang. In 2005, Kate served as special advisor for minority nationalities affairs at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and is currently a National Committee on United States-China Relations Public Intellectuals Fellow Courses: Discipline and Specialty: Political Science, China Current Research Topic: Ethnic Politics in China, Chinese Legal Development, Local-Central Relations Publications: Chuangzao zhuangzu: Zhongguo de shaoshu minzu zhengce he tade yingxiang (Kunming: Yunnan zhuangzu xuehui, forthcoming) [Translation by the Yunnan Zhuang Studies Association of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China] Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2007) “Regionalism versus Ethnicnationalism in the People’s Republic of China” China Quarterly (December 2002; Winner 2002 Gordon White Award) “China: Ethnic Conflict in the World’s Largest Multinational State,” in Joseph Rudolph (ed) Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflict (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003) “The China Disabled Person’s Federation,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 2004 “Ethnic Brothers? The Impact of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on Ethnic Identity,” presented at the Southeastern Regional Conference of the Asssociation of Asian Studies, Jekyll Island, GA January 2003 and the National Association of Asian Studies Meeting, New York City, March 2003. Professional Distinctions: Gordon White Award presented by China Quarterly Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. President, 2004; Vice-President January 2003; Program Chair 2000. Executive Board Member 2000, 2003-2006. Special Advisor for Minority Nationality Affairs, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, 2005 Executive Manager: China Initiative, The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics, and Public Leadership Invited Conferences: “China’s Opening to the West Conference” sponsored by the China Quarterly, University Technology of Sydney, and the Hamburg East Asian Institute in Hamburg, Germany May 2003. "Taiwan Relations Conference sponsored by the University of South Carolina 2002, 2003. Other Research Interests: Poverty Alleviation in Rural China; Refugee Resettlement Issues; PRC Religious Affairs Policy; Civil Society in China General Interests: U.S. Foreign Policy |
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