Shirley Xinyi Cai

Shirley Xinyi Cai is a researcher in comparative politics and political theory based in Montreal, Canada. She is currently engaged in issues related to the concepts of recognition and inequality in political theory. Empirically, her interests broadly lie in the feminisms of the Global South and the cultural and political identity of the Chinese diaspora. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at McGill University. She is also a research fellow at Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP) and Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS). She holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (Liberal Arts) from Sun Yat-sen University.