Yinan He (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a political scientist specialized in East Asian politics and international relations. Her scholarship covers topics of politics of historical memory and reconciliation, East Asian international security, Chinese and Japanese foreign policy, and national identity mobilization and nationalism in East Asia. She is a leading expert on contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. Her current research explores the impact of national identity politics on China’s foreign relations since the late 19th century to the present.
Yinan He
Associate Professor
610.758.3387
yih413@lehigh.edu
0009 - Maginnes Hall
Education:
Ph.D. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004;
M.A. in International Politics, Fudan University (Shanghai), 1995;
B.A. in International Politics, Peking University (Beijing), 1992
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Professor He completed her undergraduate and master’s education in China before moving to the U.S., where she earned her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Search for Reconciliation: Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since WWII (Cambridge University Press). Professor He is a Public Intellectual Program Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Princeton China and the World Program and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and a predoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies of Harvard University. Her research has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Institute of Peace, the MacArthur Foundation, and Japanese Government Mombusho Scholarship, among others. Before joining Lehigh University in 2014, she had taught international relations at Seton Hall University.
Teaching
IR/Asia 061 East Asian International Relations
IR/Asia 063 US-China Relations
IR/Asia 066 Japan in a Changing World
IR 236 Causes of War
IR/ASIA 364 Chinese Foreign Policy