Meg Elizabeth Rithmire Morgan Hall 262, Soldiers Field Boston MA 02163 617 495 1097 mrithmire@hbs.edu EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D., Government, Harvard University Thesis: The Political Economy of Spatial Change in Urban China Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Perry (chair), Timothy Colton, Alan Altshuler 2006 M.A., Government, Harvard University 2004 M.A., Political Science, Emory University 2004 B.A., phi beta kappa, summa cum laude, International Studies and Chinese Studies, Emory University HARVARD UNIVERSITY Appointments 07/2011 Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School (Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit) 07/2013 Hellman Faculty Fellow PUBLICATIONS Book Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform. Cambridge University Press. 2015. Articles China s New Regionalism : Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy. World Politics Vol. 66, No. 1. (January 2014): pp. 165 194. ʺLand Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China.ʺ China Quarterly. Issue 216. (December 2013): pp. 872 895. Page 1
Works in Progress Other Land and the Management of Chinese Capitalism. Urbanization and the Future of China. Under Review. Review of State Market Interactions in China s Reform Era: Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry by Junmin Wang. China Quarterly. Vol. 215. September 2013. Review of Integrating Regions: Asia in Comparative Context. Edited by Miles Kahler and Andrew MacIntyre, editors. Perspectives on Politics. Forthcoming. WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Land and the Management of Chinese Capitalism. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2015. The Making of the Real Estate Economy, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 27, 2014. Property Rights or Perverse Fiscal Relations? Explaining Land Conflict in Urban China, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 2013. Local States of Play: Subnational Property Rights Regimes in China, Workshop on Subnational Comparative Politics. Brown University. May 9 10, 2013. China s New Regionalism : Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 22, 2013. Local States of Play: The Origins of Different Property Regimes in Contemporary Urban China, Harvard Business School international seminar series, September 13, 2013. China s New Regionalism : Subnational Analysis in the Study of Chinese Political Economy Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. San Diego, March 25, 2012. Page 2
Local States of Play: Land and Local Politics in Contemporary China Workshop on the History of Land and Power, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University. November 9 and 10, 2012. Building Communities on the Ruins of Neighborhoods: Institutional Change in the Provision of Public Services in China, accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA, September 2012. The Politics of Spatial Stagnation in Harbin, 1978 to the Present, Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2011. Closed Neighborhoods in Open Cities: The Politics of Urban Socio Spatial Change in China, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C., September 2010. The Politics of Spatial Control in Reform Era China, presented at the Urban Studies Workshop, East China Normal University and Harvard Yenching Institute, Shanghai, June 2010. Building Modern Cities: The Politics of Spatial Control in Urban China, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 2010. Toward Sub Urban Geography, presented at Urban Geography Conference at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, September 2009. Winner: Outstanding Presentation. (in Chinese). The Inferno is not Burning: The Politics of Protracted Struggles Between Neighborhood and City, presented at the Asian Neighborhoods Research Group Workshop, Harvard Yenching Institute, April 17 19 2009. INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism. University of Michigan Contemporary China Series. November 10, 2015. Land and the Management of Chinese Capitalism. Workshop on Land and Property Rights in China. University of Chicago Center in Beijing, June 19 20, 2015. Property Rights in Urban China. Workshop on Property Rights and Urbanization in China. Columbia University, March 2015. Page 3
The Making of the Real Estate Economy: Lessons of the first Modern Chinese Real Estate Bubble, Workshop on Land Grabbing, Harvard University Fairbank Center, March 7 8, 2014. Land and Chinese Capitalism, Training Session in Urban Research and Policy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, June 19 and 20, 2013. Chinese Cities: Booming Growth or Doomed to Fail? with Tony Saich. Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, April 29, 2013. The Making of the Real Estate Economy: Land and Macroeconomic Management in China, Fidelity Investments, Boston, March 7, 2013. Local States of Play: Land and Chinese Capitalism, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, China Urban Development Discussion Series, March 6, 2013. The Politics of Land Control in China, Histories of Land, Economy, and Power, Harvard University, November 10, 2012. The Roots of Local Territorial Control: Housing Privatization and Enterprise Reform in the 1980s and 1990s, the New England China Seminar at Harvard University, February 1, 2012. The Political Logics of Urban Reform in China, invited presentation at the China House and Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, April 2011. Urban Planning in China, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, November 18 and 23, 2010. Pedagogical Innovation in Graduate Student Teaching, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Board Meeting, Harvard University, November 5, 2010. Conducting Interviews in the Field, Training Session for Government Undergraduate Thesis Writers, Harvard University, October 2008. AWARDS AND HONORS 2015 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence, HBS 2015 HBS Student Association Teaching Award, Required Curriculum 2010 Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates (one of five annual recipients university wide, nominated by department). 2009 Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching (based on student evaluations), Sophomore Tutorial and State Society Relations in China. Page 4
2008 Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching (based on student evaluations): Introduction to Comparative Politics and Political Economy of Reform in China. 2007 Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching (based on student evaluations), Sophomore Tutorial. Nominee, Joseph Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University Undergraduate Council 2006 Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching (based on student evaluations): Introduction to Comparative Politics and State Society Relations in China. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2010 2011 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Graduate Student Associate. 2010 Norton Long Young Scholars Award, Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for excellent paper proposal for the APSA annual meeting. 2009 10 Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the Social Sciences, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Justice, Welfare and Economics Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Research Grant. 2008 2009 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Graduate Student Associate. 2009 Research Associate, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Center for Urban Development (Fall). 2009 Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard Research Grant (Summer Fall). 2007 8 Fulbright Student Fellowship (Institute of International Education), for dissertation fieldwork in Northeastern China. 2007 8 GSAS Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University, supplemental funding for fieldwork. 2007 8 China Government Scholarship, Awarded by Chinese Ministry of Education, funding for dissertation fieldwork in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. 2007 8 Fulbright Hays DDRA 2(declined) Page 5
2005 Harvard Asia Center Director s Fund, for independent fieldwork research on the relationship between minorities and state economic institutions in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China (Summer). 2004 Lucius Lamar McMullan Award given to one graduating senior each year for scholarship and citizenship, Emory University. 2004 Eliot Levitas Award for Best All Around Political Science graduate, Emory University. 2003 4 Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Emory University, funding for Fieldwork in Beijing and Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, for Master s Thesis (December 2003 January 2004.) 2002 Study Abroad at Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang Province China, Fall 2002. 4 courses in Mandarin Chinese and 24 hour language pledge. Recipient of Best Student award. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member: Referee: American Political Science Association, Association of Asian Studies The China Quarterly, Oxford University Press, International Security, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, China Journal, Studies in Comparative and International Development, Public Budgeting and Finance SPECIAL SKILLS Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, reading and speaking General proficiency in Spanish and Classical Chinese Page 6