Assistant Professor
Political Science, Asian Studies听
Christian Sorace is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College. His work is grounded in the intersection of comparative politics and political theory. His book听听(Cornell University Press, 2017) explores the ideological and discursive foundations of the Chinese Communist Party鈥檚 authority and governance. Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Sorace鈥檚 book examines the Party鈥檚 response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which was intended to showcase its benevolence, glory, and state capacity. At the same time, he examines from a bottom-up perspective, how the reconstruction plans often failed to address the concrete and particular needs of the earthquake survivors.
He is also a co-editor of听听(Verso/ANU Press, 2019)听and听Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour听(Verso forthcoming).听听His articles have appeared in听Comparative Politics,听The China Quarterly,听The China Journal,听Critical Inquiry,听Public Culture, and听positions: asia critique, among other journals. He also is the editor of the Arts section of an open-access quarterly called听, and host of the podcast听Utopian Futures.听
Sorace鈥檚 current research focuses on the interlocking crises of democracy, capitalism, air pollution, and urbanization in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award to conduct research in Mongolia in Spring 2022. He speaks Chinese fluently and Mongolian at an advanced level.
Among the courses he teaches are听Politics of China,听Reading Marx in the Time of COVID-19,听Utopia and Dystopia,听Power and Everyday Life,听and听Introduction to Comparative Politics.
Previously, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National University's Australian Centre on China in the World (ANU-CIW), obtained a PhD in Government from the University of Texas, Austin, MA from the University of Chicago, and BA from Trinity College (Hartford, CT).
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Areas:听Politics of China, Comparative Politics, Political Theory听
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