Professor Emerita of Political Science
Suzanne Ogden is Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. As a China specialist, her research and publications have focused on the interaction of China’s culture, politics, and development, such as Inklings of Democracy in China; and China’s Unresolved Issues: Politics, Development and Culture. Her academic articles span a variety of topics: Chinese nationalism, terrorism, intellectuals, education, Tiananmen 1989, and civil society, as well as state, nation, and sovereignty. She began her work on China’s impact on the Mekong River Basin in 2010. Presently, she is writing a book about all the major stakeholders in the Mekong River Basin, focusing on China’s stakeholders.
- 2012, Grant for field research on Mekong River Basin. Sumitomo Foundation, Japan.
- 2010-11, Grant for field research on Mekong River Basin. Casa Asia, Barcelona.
- 2005, Honorary Professor, Sichuan University.
- 1996-97: Fulbright Teaching Grant, China’s Foreign Affairs College (Waijiao xueyuan), Beijing.
- 1992: Twenty-Eighth Annual University Lectureship: The Robert D. Klein lecturer, in recognition of outstanding scholarly achievement, professional contribution, and creative classroom activity.
- 1988: American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council; Grant to study Chinese at Stanford Directed Interuniversity Center in Taiwan.
- 1979: Melon Grant, awarded to develop course on Ethics and Business (to be taught in Business School). Declined.
- 1976-1977: American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council: Grant for study of Chinese Foreign Policy.
- 1976: National Endowment for the Humanities, on post-1949 writings of Mao Zedong (Prof. Kau Ying-mao, director, Brown University).
- “The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus” (Journal of Contemporary China 32:139, forthcoming in print, 2023).
- “The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus” (Journal of Contemporary China, 2022).
- Author and Editor, Global Studies; China (Guilford, Ct.: McGraw Hill), 12th edition, 2007.
- Author, Inklings of Democracy in China, (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press), 2002.
- Co-Author, with Mayer, L., Burnett, J., Tuman,J., Comparative Politics: Nations and Theories in a Changing World,( Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall), 3rd edition, 2000.
- Author, China’s Unresolved Issues: Politics, Development and Culture, 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.
- Project Director and Chief Editor, in collaboration with Kathleen Hartford, Lawrence Sullivan and David Zweig, China’s Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989. (M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, N.Y.) 1992.
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