Associate Professor of Political Science, School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai
Educated as a political scientist, Dr. Ren Junfeng is currently an associate professor of political theory in the School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, CHINA. Dr. Ren holds senior associate membership of St. Antony’s college, Oxford University. His research fields include U.S. politics, western political history, political theory, and early modern western political thought. Teaching courses include U.S. Constitution and politics, western classics, democracy in america, western political history, and western classics from middle ages to modern. His working project is a systematic examination of American township politics in the quest for some insights into the internal dynamics of the federalism of the United States. The research is will address two fundamental questions: First, what is the character of township politics in the context of the whole federal system? Second, in what ways does township politics contribute to the federal democracy of the United States?