Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitlePhD Student

AffiliationGraduate

Primary Office LocationMerrill College Academic Building
9

Office HoursMonday 2pm-4pm

Mail StopMerrill College

Biography, Education and Training

Lanzeng focuses on education reform and agricultural reform in mainland China and Taiwan. Through comparative studies of reforms in the 1960s and 2000s, his research addresses the impact of reforms on agriculture, rural areas and peasants.

B.A. Warren Wilson College

History and Political Science summa cum laude

M.A. University of Chicago

International Relations

Research Interests

De-collectivization and Collectivization, Promotion System for officials in mainland China and Taiwan.

Teaching Interests

Teaching Assistantships:

POLI-1 Introduction to Politics and Government

POLI-20 American Politics

POLI-160A Theories of International and World Politics

POLI-61Politics of Social Policy

Awards, Honors and Grants

Chancellor's Fellowship (2022-23)

Selected Presentations

(2023) Socialist industrialization, deskilling, and efforts to diminish the gap between mental and manual labor in China. Workshop at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

(2024) The Disintegration of Community and Agriculture Crisis in Rural China and Taiwan. Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse University.