May Farid

Assistant Professor

• New York University, International Relations & Sociology (BA)
  
• Oxford University, Political Science (DPhil)

Dr. May Farid is a Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies beginning Fall 2023. Dr. Farid holds a doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford. Her academic research and teaching are supplemented by seven years of experience with an international foundation running an institutional capacity building program for grassroots NGOs in China. Before joining HKU, she concluded a four-year research project on behalf of China’s leading government policy think-tank. Her work has been published in International Affairs, World Development, Studies in Comparative International Development, Voluntas, and the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Dr. Farid's research centers on the interplay between citizen initiatives and state policy and practice, and the implications of this dynamic for development and governance. She has explored these questions of citizen initiatives and their impact on government policies by studying how Chinese grassroots NGOs influence policy, how cross-sector knowledge communities generate knowledge that intersects with the policy process, education and development policy in China's ethnic minority regions, and how International NGOs intermediate China's overseas aid and investment and in its Belt and Road Initiative.

Office Hours

• KROC 597
• KROC 594
• KROC 596
• KROC 593