Fanglu Sun

Curriculum Vitae

Contact
Information

Department of Political Science

Rice University
MS-24, 6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005

Education

Rice University, Houston, Texas USA

Ph.D. Political Science, 2016 Expected
Pass Dissertation Proposal Defense, Feb. 2014
M.A. Political Science, 2012

Phone: +1(713) 3975567

Fax: +1(713) 3485273
Email: fanglu.sun@rice.edu
Website: http://sunfanglu.com/

Nankai University,Tianjin, China

M.A. International Relations, 2010
B.A. International Politics, 2008
Tianjin University,Tianjin, China
B.A. Business Administration, 2008
Additional
Training

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, Duke University, 2014

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, University of Houston, 2015

Research
Interests

Internal Conflict Process and Resolution, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ethnic Politics in
China, Formal Theory and Quantitative Methods

Dissertation

Divide and Concede: Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Ethnic Rebellion

Advisor: T. Clifton Morgan
Committee: Ashley Leeds, Songying Fang, Steven Lewis

Publications

2009

Organization Process Analysis of Arms-Sale Policy to Taiwan during Clinton

Administration. Theory Research, 518(2): 163-165. [In Chinese]

Translation
Works

2015

John Gerring.Case Study Research: Principles and Practices. Ch.6. Translated

into Chinese. Edited by Ruizhuang Zhang. Chongqing Press. Forthcoming.

Under Review

Working
Papers

Divide and Concede: Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Ethnic Rebellion.

Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Sponsorship of Anti-China Bills on Capitol Hill.

Same Skins, Different Shirts: Strategies of State Accommodation, and The Occurrence
of Intraethnic Conflict
Negotiation and Concession, and The Occurrence of Anti-Government Violence
Relative Electrification and Ethnic Rebellion (with Konstantin Ash at UCSD).
Democratic Transition, Domestic Riots and International Conflict

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Research
in Progress

Understanding Chinas Growing Participation in Peacekeeping Operations: Domestic

Motivations and Constraints (with Prof. Songying Fang at Rice)
Why Some Ethnic Groups Get More Autonomy Than Others
Who Said No to the Hegemony: Refusing Singing Bilateral Non-surrender Agreements
with the United States
The Impact of the Designs of Bilateral Trade Treaties on FDI Inflows

Conference
Participation

Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Ethnic Rebellion: A Cure Or A Curse.

2015 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association
2015 Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association
2015 Texas Triangle International Relations Conference
Sponsorship of Anti-China Bills On Capital Hill.
2015 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association
2015 Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association
2015 Annual Meeting of Association of Chinese Political Studies
When More Autonomy Makes Minorities Worse Off: Territorial Autonomy, Local
Power Distribution and Ethnic Rebellion
2015 Annual Meeting of International Security Studies
2014 Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association
Relative Electrification and Ethnic Rebellion: Incorporating Government Repression
into the Sub-national Study of Civil Conflict. (with Konstantin Ash at UCSD).
2015 Annual Meeting of International Security Studies
Strategic Demands of Minority and The Risk of Ethic Conflict.
2013 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association
Ethnopolitical Organizations Mobilization and Ethnic Conflict Occurrence.
2013 Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association
U.S.-China Bilateral Relations
2011 U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium, Washington D.C., USA

Teaching
Experience

Instructor
Civil Wars (Undergraduate)
Teaching Assistant
Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Graduate)
Instructor: Randy Stevenson

Spring 2015, 2016

Fall 2014

Teaching Assistant
Introduction to International Relations (Undergraduate) Fall 2011, Spring 2012,
Spring 2013
Instructor: Richard Stoll
Research
Experience

Research Assistant
Supervisor: Songying Fang
Fall 2016
Project: Historical Ownership, Issue Indivisibility, and Territorial Disputes: Evidence
from China
Research Assistant
Supervisor: Cliff Morgan
Summer 2012 - 2014
Project: Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions (TIES)

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Research Assistant
Supervisor: Richard Stoll
Project: Militarized Interstate Dispute (MIDs)

Feb. 2010 - Sep. 2011

Conference Coordinator
Conference: International Conference of Economic Sanctions and Political Process
Sponsored by ISA and Rice University
Fall 2013
Research Assistant
Supervisor: Guang Zhang
Project: Handbook of the U.S. 109th Congress

2007

Scholarship &
Awards

National Science Foundation Funding to Attend EITM at UH

2015
National Science Foundation Funding to Attend EITM at Duke
2014
Rice Graduate Student Fellowship
Fall 2010 - present
Chinese Government Scholarship for Studying Abroad Fall 2010 - Spring 2014
Chinese National Encouragement Scholarship
2010
Best Graduate Fellowship, Nankai University, China
2008-2010
Best Undergraduate Fellowship, Nankai University, China
2004-2008

Computer Skills

Statistical softwares: Stata, R, Mathematica

Geographic software: ArcGIS
Typesetting softwares: LATEX, Beamer

Language Skills

Chinese (native), English (fluent)

Professional
Membership

American Political Science Association (APSA)

International Studies Association (ISA)
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)

School Service

Social Science Graduate Students Association (SSGSA), Rice University

Fall 2014 - present

Reference

T. Clifton Morgan (Supervisor)

Albert Thomas Professor
Department of Political Science
Rice University
Email: morgan@rice.edu

Brett Ashley Leeds

Professor& Department Chair
Department of Political Science
Rice University
Email: leeds@rice.edu

Songying Fang
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Rice University
Email: sfang@rice.edu

This version is updated by December 10, 2015

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