Diana Fu

Diana Fu, Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science, The University of Toronto

Dr. Diana Fu is an Associate Professor at The University of Toronto in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science. She is a non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, a China fellow at the Wilson Center, and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations.  

Fu’s research examines civil society, popular contention, state control, and authoritarian citizenship in China. She is the author of the award-winning book Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China. Her current research examines how China’s party-state governs the global diaspora abroad, forthcoming in a co-authored book with Cambridge University Press.  

Dr. Fu’s commentary has appeared in BBC, Bloomberg TV, CBC, CNN, NPR, Foreign Affairs, US News & World Report, and The New York Times, among others. She was guest host of the TVO documentary series “China Here and Now” and of POLITICO’s China Watcher. She received her doctorate in Politics from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and previously served as National Co-secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship for China.