Complexities of China-U.S. Relations

Professor Mary Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights, Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Institute in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Political Studies for the Institute for Social Research also at U-M

Mary is an expert in Chinese politics, law and society, and labor politics. A U-M faculty member since 2000, she directed U-M's Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies from 2008 to 2020. She also taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, was a Fulbright Research Scholar at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, and, in 2012-13, was a visiting professor at the Koguan School of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Professor Gallagher is the author of Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State, and Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China. She also co-edited three other books: Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China; From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China; and Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies. Additionally, she has published many articles in academic and non-academic publications, including World Politics, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Dr. Gallagher is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and has consulted for the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and Department of Labor, and many other international organizations. In 2018, Professor Gallagher received a U-M Faculty Recognition Award for her contributions to the understanding of China and autocratic regimes, her teaching, and her leadership.