Kyle A. Jaros University of Oxford China Centre Dickson Poon Building Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU kyle.jaros@area.ox.ac.uk kyle.jaros@lmh.ox.ac.uk +44 (0)1865613855 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Associate Professor in the Political Economy of China, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Supernumerary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, September 2016-present John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, August 2014-August 2016 EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. in Political Science, 2014 A.M. in Political Science, 2010 Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China Graduate Certificate in Chinese Studies, 2006 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ A.B. in Public & International Affairs, summa cum laude, 2005 Certificate in Chinese Language & Culture, 2005 RESEARCH AND TEACHING FOCUS Chinese politics Political economy of development Subnational and urban governance Mixed-methods research BOOK MANUSCRIPT China s Urban Champions and the Politics of Spatial Development (under review) PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS China s Newsmakers: Official Media Coverage and Political Shifts in the Xi Jinping Era (with Jennifer Pan, 2017, China Quarterly) Rethinking Subnational Government Capacity in China (2016, Journal of Chinese Governance) Forging Greater Xi an: The Political Logic of Metropolitanization (2015, Modern China) Loyalists, Localists, and Legibility: The Strategic Shuffling of Provincial Leaders in China (with David J. Bulman, under review) Leninism and Local Interests: How Cities in China Benefit from Concurrent Leadership Appointments (with David J. Bulman, working paper) The State of the State and the Province of the Province (with Yeling Tan, working paper)
China s Provincial-Administration-of-Counties Reforms: Redistributing Economic Opportunity or Rescaling Urban Bias? (working paper) Capital Concentration: The Politics of Metropolitan-Oriented Development in China (working paper) 2 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS John Fell OUP Research Fund Grant, University of Oxford, 2017-2019 Postdoctoral Research Travel Grants, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, 2014; 2016 Sidney R. Knafel Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2013-2014 Samuel P. Huntington Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2013-2014 Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2011 and 2013 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Mid-Dissertation Grant, Harvard University, Summer 2013 Ezra F. Vogel Fund Grants for research travel, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2009 and 2012 Taubman Center for State and Local Government dissertation research grant, Harvard Kennedy School, 2012-2013 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2011-2012 Fulbright Institute of International Education Scholarship (award declined), 2011 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship for dissertation research, Harvard University, 2011-2012 Asia Center/Fairbank Center Summer Grants for research travel, Harvard University, 2010 and 2011 George and Patricia White Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University, 2008-2009 Rupert Emerson Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University, 2008-2009 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, Princeton University, 2005 Woodrow Wilson School Senior Thesis Prize, Princeton University, 2005 Elected to New Jersey Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 2004 R.W. van de Velde Award, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2004 Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, Princeton University, 2002 and 2003 TEACHING AND ADVISING Instructor, China s Economic Reforms (option course), Contemporary China Studies MSc program, University of Oxford, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 Co-instructor, The Study of Contemporary China (core course), Contemporary China Studies MSc program, University of Oxford, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 Co-instructor, Research Methods (core course), Contemporary China Studies MSc program, University of Oxford, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 Master s dissertation supervisor, Contemporary China Studies program, University of Oxford, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 College advisor, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, 2016-2017, 2017-2018
Course assistant and guest lecturer, The Political Economy of Transition in China (Anthony Saich), Harvard Kennedy School, Spring 2015, Spring 2016 Senior thesis mentor, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Summer 2014 Senior thesis tutor, East Asian Studies Concentration, Harvard University, 2013-2014 Teaching fellow and academic advisor, Sophomore Tutorial (James Alt and Michael Rosen), Department of Government, Harvard University, Spring 2013 Teaching fellow, Government and Politics of China (Nara Dillon), Department of Government, Harvard University, Fall 2010, Fall 2012 Teaching fellow, International Political Economy (Jeffry Frieden), Department of Government, Harvard University, Spring 2011 3 SELECTED PRESENTATIONS How Localities Benefit from Access to China s Party Leadership Bodies (Invited talk, Cambridge Society for the Study of the Political Economy of China, Cambridge, UK, November 2017) China s Urban Champions and the Politics of Spatial Development (Invited talk, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2017) Sitting Pretty: Territorial Representation in China s Party Leadership Bodies (with David J. Bulman, Paper at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2017) China s Provincial-Administration-of-Counties Reforms: Redistributing Economic Opportunity or Rescaling Urban Bias? (Paper at Workshop on Chinese Politics and Society, Shanghai Jiaotong University, July 2017) China s Urban Champions and the Politics of Spatial Development (Invited talk, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, July 2017) China s Urban Champions and the Politics of Spatial Development (Invited talk, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2017) China s Provincial-Administration-of-Counties Reforms: Redistributing Economic Opportunity or Rescaling Urban Bias? (Paper at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, March 2017) China s Urban Champions: The Politics of Metropolitan-Oriented Development (Invited talk, China Political Economy Discussion Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, October 2016) Stacking the Deck: Strategic Appointment of Provincial Leadership Teams in China (with David J. Bulman, Paper at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 2016) The Politics of Metropolitan-Oriented Development: China and Beyond (Paper at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 2016) Reconceptualizing Subnational Government Capacity in China (Paper at International Conference on the Modernization of Local Governance in China, Peking University, Beijing, May 2016) The Politics of Metropolitan-Oriented Development: China and Beyond (Paper at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2016) Urban Champions: The Politics of Metropolitan Bias in China (Invited talk, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, November 2015) The Politics of Metropolitan-Oriented Development: Evidence from China (Invited talk, Department of Government, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, November 2015)
Capital Concentration: The Politics of Metropolitan-Oriented Development in China (Presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Urban China Seminar, Cambridge, MA, March 2015). China s Newsmakers: Measuring Power in Media and Politics with Named-Entity Recognition (Paper at APSA Political Communication Preconference with Jennifer Pan, San Francisco, CA, September 2015) New-style Urbanization or Metropolitanization? The Political Logic of Urban Growth in Greater Xi an (Paper at Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Miami, FL, April 2015) The State of the State and the Province of the Province (Presentation at the Faculty Seminar on Communist and Post-Communist Countries, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2014) Developing Turf: The Political Logic of Metropolitanization in China (Paper at Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2014) The Politics of Metropolitan Focus in China (Invited talk, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, November 2013) Metropolitan Focus and the Multilevel Politics of Development in China (Paper at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2013) Metropolitan Focus in China: Political and Economic Logics (Presentation at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellows Alumni Reunion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2013) The Political Economy of Metropolitan Focus in China s Provinces (Paper at 2013 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2013) ACADEMIC SERVICE Member of Governing Body, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, 2016-present D.Phil Examiner, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2018 Member, Examiners Board, Contemporary China Studies, University of Oxford, 2016-2017; 2017-2018 Co-coordinator, University of Oxford China Centre Seminar, 2016-2017; 2017-2018 Invited reviewer for academic journals including Modern China and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Co-organizer, conference on Compressed Development in Asia and Beyond, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and St Antony s College, University of Oxford, May 2018 Panel organizer, The State of the State: Inside (and Outside) China s Changing Governmental Hierarchy, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, March 2018 Panel organizer, The Politics of Uneven Development: Subnational Perspectives from China and India, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2016 Panel organizer, Rethinking China s Peri-Urban Politics, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, March 2015 Panel organizer, Scaling the State: Rethinking Multilevel Politics and Policymaking in China and India, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 2013 Panel organizer, Modeling Regions: Chinese Subnational Political Economy in Comparative Perspective, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, CA, March 2013 Co-founder and coordinator, Harvard-MIT Chinese Politics Research Workshop, 2010-2011 4 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Member, Executive Committee, Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2010-present Research Assistant to Professor Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University, Summer 2010 Research Assistant to Professor Alastair Iain Johnston, Harvard University, Summer 2010 Editing and translation assistant, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Summer 2009 Associate, Asia Practice, Eurasia Group, New York, NY, 2007-2008 Intern, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Washington, D.C., Fall 2006 Intern, Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. Fall 2006 Intern, China Development Brief, Beijing, China, Summer 2004 5 AFFILIATIONS Member, American Political Science Association Member, Association for Asian Studies Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2012-2014 Visiting Scholar, School of Management, Xi an Jiaotong University, Xi an, China, 2011-2013 Senior Visiting Student, School of Government, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2011-2012