Assistant Professor, IIAS, Tsinghua University

Language: Chinese, English, Portuguese, Spanish

Email: zhou_yan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Countries/Regions: Brazil, Latin America

Research Interests: State and society relations; social class and political behaviours; culture and religion

• Postdoctoral Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford;

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Tsinghua University;

• M.A. program in International Journalism, Tsinghua University;

• Dual B.A. degree in International Relations and English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

• 2025-present: Visiting Lecturer, National School of Public Administration (Escola Nacional de Administração Pública), Brazil;

• 2022-2025: Collaborative Researcher, Institute of Political Science, University of Brasília, Brazil;

• 2014-2017: Visiting Scholar, Political Science Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil;
  

• 2013-2014: Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.

• ZHOU, Yan. 2024. Capitals and Segregation: A Study on Educational Mobility of Brazilian New Middle Class. China Social Sciences Press. (in Chinese).

• ZHOU, Yan, XIA Songze. 2024. “Green Energy Transition: The Brazilian Experience”. World Affairs, 19: 63-65. (Academic paper in Chinese).
  

• ZHOU, Yan. 2023. “Institutional Demand and Supply: Exploring the Reasons for Brazil’s Proximity to the United States.” Area Studies, 2: 5-31. (Academic paper in Chinese).

• ZHOU, Yan. 2023. “The U.S. Influence on Brazil’s ‘Capitol Riot’”. World Affairs, 4: 51-53. (Academic paper in Chinese).

• ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Conservatism in Brazil: New Wave or a Return to History?” World Affairs, 1747(8): 52-53. (Academic paper in Chinese).

• ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Christian Evangelicals’ Participation in Brazilian Institutionalized Politics and Its Impact.” World Religion and Culture, 117(3): 60-67. (Academic paper in Chinese, published on peer-reviewed journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index).

• ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Explaining the Brazilian New Middle Class’s Weakening Support for Left-wing Parties.” International Forum, 21(1): 114-126. (Academic paper in Chinese, published on peer-reviewed journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index).

• ZHOU, Yan. 2022. “The Two Worlds of the Rich and the Poor in Brazil”. In The Global as Field Site: 10 Years of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, edited by Gao Liangmin et al, China Commercial Press, pp. 325-341.

• ZHOU, Yan. 2020. “The Road to Elite Higher Education for Brazilian Students with Low Socioeconomic Status.” In Area Studies: New Realities, New Conceptions, edited by Timothy Niblock, Yang Guang and Zhou Yan, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, pp.123-155.

• Timothy Niblock, Yang Guang and Zhou Yan. 2020. Area Studies: New Realities, New Conceptions, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.

• Zhou Yan. 2025. Translation in Chinese of Arnold J. Bauer, Goods, Power, History, Latin America’s Material Culture, Shanghai People’s Press.

• LI, Yin and Zhou Yan. 2023. Translation in Chinese of William H. Beezley, Cheryl Martin and William French edited, Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico, Shanghai People’s Press.