HAEMIN JEE

Bio & C.V.

About

Haemin Jee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Swarthmore College. Her research bridges the political economy of China with the international and domestic implications of great power competition. Before arriving at Swarthmore, she was an Assistant Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She completed her PhD in 2022 at the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Prior to attending Stanford, she received an A.B. in Government from Harvard University.

Her peer-reviewed work has appeared in Governance, Perspectives on Politics, and Democratization, and she has contributed a chapter to Automated Governance in China? (Leiden University Press, 2025). She is a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research and has conducted 14 months of fieldwork in China.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University, 2015–2022
  • B.A. in Government, Harvard University, 2010–2014

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College, 2026–present
  • Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point, 2022–2026
  • Dissertation Fellow, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University, 2021–2022
  • Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford Center at Peking University, 2018–2019

Professional Affiliations

  • Nonresident Fellow, National Bureau of Asian Research, 2025–present

Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

  • Civilian Service Commendation Medal, Department of the Army, 2025
  • Research Grant, Smith Richardson Foundation, 2024
  • Dean’s Faculty Research Fund, West Point, 2024
  • Research Grant, Dutch Research Council, 2023
  • William F. Murdy Award for Teaching Excellence for International Affairs, West Point, 2023
  • Graduate Student Fellowship, Stanford King Center on Global Development, 2021–2022
  • George P. Schultz Dissertation Fund, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, 2021
  • Chinese Language Fellow, National Bureau of Asian Research, 2019–2020
  • Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford Center at Peking University, 2018–2019

C.V.

A full copy of my curriculum vitae is available as a PDF download.