Aaron Glasserman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania and a non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University. His research interests include the history and politics of ethnicity and religion in China; minority nationalism; law and legal history; comparative religion-state relations; and modern Islamic political and religious movements. He was previously an Academy Scholar (postdoctoral fellow) at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 2021 and a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2013.

Last Updated: January 24, 2025

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01.24.25

Learning the Wrong Lessons at Harvard

Aaron Glasserman
Last fall, Harvard University once again found itself in the crosshairs of the U.S. Congress in a spat that left both institutions compromising American values and competitiveness. On October 18, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist...

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02.24.23

Touting ‘Ethnic Fusion,’ China’s New Top Official for Minority Affairs Envisions a Country Free of Cultural Difference

Aaron Glasserman
Pan’s election to the Central Committee suggests that the Xi administration’s hard turn toward assimilationism will likely continue and perhaps intensify. Pan is the second Han official in a row to head the Ethnic Affairs Commission, which for...