Dr. Aiqun Hu

Associate Professor of History

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Education

• Ph.D. History, Northeastern University, US, January 2008
• M.A. Public Service Management (Social Security), The University of York, UK, 2000
• M.A. Sociology, Wuhan University, China, 1996
• B.A. Sociology, Wuhan University, China, 1990
• Certificate in American Studies, Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center, 1994-1995

Professional Credentials

• Research Associate, World History Center, University of Pittsburgh, summer 2013
• Member, Guangdong Institute for Social Policy, China, 2013-present
• Visiting Scholar, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (Canton), China, July 2012
• Lee Hysan Visiting Scholar Scheme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, summer 2008
• Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, summer 2006
• Teaching Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2001-2006
• British Chevening Scholarship, 1999
• Second-class Prize of Philosophy and Social Science of Guangdong Province, China, 1999
• Guangdong Provincial-Level Outstanding Worker, China, 1998

Teaching Specialties

• Modern China
• East Asia
• Global Approaches

Research Interests

• “China’s Social Insurance in Global Historical Perspective,” Chinese Public Policy Review (April 2013), vol. 6, pp. 1-18. (in Chinese)
•  “The Global Spread of Neo-liberalism and China’s Pension Reform since 1978,” Journal of World History (2012), vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 609-638.
• “China, Social Insurance, and the Welfare State: a Global Historical Perspective,” World History Connected (2012), vol. 9, no. 1.  
• “The Global Social Insurance Movement since the 1880s,” Journal of Global History (2010), vol. 5, issue 1, pp. 125-148.
• Book Manuscript in Progress
  China’s Social Security in the Twentieth Century: A Global Historical Perspective.  To be published by   Brill Academic Press.  

Curriculum Vitae

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