Susan K. McCarthy Department of Political Science Providence College Providence RI 02918 smccarth@providence.edu Academic Positions Professor of Political Science, Providence College, 2011-present Associate Professor, Political Science, Providence College, 2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Political Science, Providence College, 2001-2007 Instructor, Political Science, Providence College, 2000-2001 Education Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2001 Dissertation: Whose Autonomy is it Anyway? Minority Cultural Politics and National Identity in the PRC M.A. Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 Thesis: The 1990 Baren Uprising and the Legacy of Reform: Muslim protest in post-mao China" B.A. cum laude, honors in major study, Political Science-Philosophy, Whitman College, 1987 Publications Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009 Peer-reviewed articles Serving Society, Repurposing the State: Religious Charity and Resistance in China, The China Journal, 70 (July 2013), 48-72 If Allah Wills It: Integration, Isolation, and Muslim Authenticity in Yunnan Province in China, Religion, State & Society, 33:2 (June 2005), 121-36 "Gods of Wealth, Temples of Prosperity: Party-State Participation in the Minority Cultural Revival," China: An International Journal, 2:1 (Mar 2004), 28-52 "Ethno-Religious Mobilisation and Citizenship Discourse in the People's Republic of China," Asian Ethnicity, 1:2 (Sept 2000), 107-16
McCarthy 2 Non-peer-reviewed articles "The State, Minorities, and Dilemmas of Development in Contemporary China," Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 26:2 (Summer/Fall 2002), 106-118 Book chapters Economic Development and the Buddhist-Industrial Complex of Xishuangbanna, in Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism and the Chinese State, Tim Oakes and Donald Sutton, eds., Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. Conference proceedings The Three Represents and the Four Noble Truths: Faith-based Civil Society Organizations in Contemporary China, in proceedings of The 4 th International Symposium on the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 80-93, Shanghai, China: Shanghai University Center for the Study of Religion and Society, 2007 Papers and Presentations Piety, Patriotism and Empowerment in Chinese Muslim Charity. Paper presented at the Tenth International Conference on the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China, Hong Kong, July 10-14, 2013 Serving Society, Repurposing the State: Religious Charity and Resistance in China. Paper presented at the Conference on Religion, Resistance, Movements, and Contentious Politics in Greater China, Oregon State University, October 26-27, 2012 Exit, Voice, Loyalty and Re-purposing: Religious charity and resistance in contemporary China. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 3, 2011 Religion and the Space of State Power in Contemporary China. Presented at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Newport, Rhode Island, April 24, 2010 Condoms, Community, and Karmic Congee: Faith-based Social Service in Contemporary China. Invited presentation to the Seminar on Chinese Religions, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, May 8, 2009 Of Karma, Congee and Community: Religious charity and civic engagement in urban China. Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, March 26-28, 2009 Doing Strange Things: Religion, faith, and the definition of social problems. Paper presented (in Chinese) at the Beijing Summit on Chinese Spirituality and Society, Beijing University, China, October 9, 2008
McCarthy 3 Religious Charity and Civic Engagement in China. Public lecture sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, May 12, 2008 Religion and Social Service in China: The emergence of FBOs. Public lecture sponsored by the Department of Ethnology at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi an, China, May 8, 2008 The Three Represents and the Four Noble Truths: Faith-based civil society organizations in contemporary China. Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China, Shanghai University, July 13-15, 2007 Mao, Metta and Muhammad: Religion and civil society in China. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 8-10, 2007 The Varieties of Chinese Muslim Experience: Authenticity, Integration, and Quasi-separatism in a Chinese Province. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, in Portland, Oregon, March 12-14, 2004 Chinese Islamic Revival and the Post-Mao State: The Challenge of Invented Traditions. Paper delivered at the International Studies Association International Convention, Budapest, Hungary, June 28, 2003 "If Allah Wills It: Defining Identity and Tradition in the Yunnan Hui Islamic Revival. Paper delivered to the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 4, 2003 Gods of Wealth, Temples of Prosperity: The Chinese State as Minority Cultural Entrepreneur. Invited presentation for the China Seminar Series, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, March 15, 2002 Contesting Modernity, Contesting the Nation: Minority cultural resurgence and nationalist understandings in China. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 16, 2001 Constraining Culture, Framing Dissent: Cultural Politics in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. Paper delivered to the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, California, March 12, 2000 Ethnic Nationalism or Nationalistic Ethnic Politics? Interpreting Chinese minority cultural activism. Paper presented at the Conference on Nationalism, Identity, and Minority Rights, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., September 18, 1999 Whose Autonomy is it Anyway? The Politics of Language and Culture in China's Nationality Autonomous Regions. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 4, 1998
McCarthy 4 Citizenship Discourse and Minority Cultural Politics. Presented to the Colloquium on the Politics of Cultural Identity, Institute for International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley, April 1, 1998 Modernization, Autonomy, and Minority Cultural Activism in the PRC. Presented at the Berkeley-Stanford Contemporary China Colloquium, Stanford University, February 4, 1998 Book Reviews Review of Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-era China, by Emily Chao (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), in Pacific Affairs (forthcoming Spring 2014). Review of The Uyghurs: Strangers in their Own Land, by Gardner Bovingdon, Perspectives on Politics, 9:1 (Mar 2011), 194-95. Review of Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America, by Bamo Ayi, Stevan Harrell and Ma Lunzy, Pacific Afffairs 82:1 (2009) Other Professional and Conference Activity Research Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2001-present Peer reviewer for The China Journal; Pacific Affairs; Religion, State & Society; Review of Religion and Chinese Society; Studies in Comparative International Development. Panel chair and discussant, Small d democracy in Comparative Perspective, the New England Political Science Association annual meeting, Newport, Rhode Island, April 24, 2010 The Politics of Belief in Contemporary China. Presentation for the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, St. George s School, Middletown, RI, January 29, 2009. Invited participant, Placating Credible Rebels conference on ethnic minorities, political stability and the state in China, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 23, 2007 Participant, Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Being Human, Providence College, 2007 Panel chair and discussant, Bureaucratic Reform in Asia, at the Western Political Science Association, annual meeting, Oakland, California, March 19, 2006 Panel chair for Political Identities at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Portland, Oregon, March 12, 2004 Discussant, panel on Nationalism, Community, Conflict and Identity the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Long Beach, California, March 22, 2002 Discussant, panel on Collective Action: From Middle Class Movements to Revolution, Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 17, 2001
McCarthy 5 Grants & Awards Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Scholar Grant for sabbatical research, 2007-2008 Committee on Aid to Faculty Research grant, Providence College, 2007-2008 Davis Grant for Technology in Teaching, Providence College, 2004 Committee on Aid to Faculty Research grant, Providence College, 2002-2003 Continuing Student Fellowship, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, 1998-99 MacArthur Foundation/Berkeley Colloquium on Cultural Identity Fellowship, 1996-98 Foreign Language and Area Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-97 (declined) Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, 1993 Service Chair, Department of Political Science, Providence College, 2010-2013 Senior Honors Thesis External Evaluator, Bates College, 2012 Dean s Advisory Committee, School of Arts & Sciences, 2011-present Chair, Committee on Aid to Faculty Research, 2010-2012 Accinno Teaching Award Selection Committee, 2009-2010 Providence College Faculty Senate, 2009-2010 Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Status, 2009-2010 Chair, Latin American Politics Search Committee, 2009 Member, Committee on Aid to Faculty Research, 2008-2012 Core Curriculum Review Committee, 2005-2007 Core Curriculum Fine Arts Subcommittee, 2006-2007 Pi Sigma Alpha Faculty Adviser, 2005 to 2007 Post-Baccalaureate Scholarship Committee, 2004-2006 International Relations Search Committee, 2005-2006 Political Science Graduate School Adviser, 2000-2005 Comparative and European Politics Search Committee, 2004 Political Science Assessment Committee, 2004 Women's Studies Advisory Committee, 2001-2004 Asian Studies Committee, 2000-2004 Truman Scholarship Campus Representative, 2000-2004 Undeclared Adviser, 2001-2003
McCarthy 6 Chair, Forand Scholarship Committee, 2001 Academic Employment History Professor, Department of Political Science, Providence College, 2011- Chair, Department of Political Science, Providence College, July 2010-2013 Visiting Scholar, NGO Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Spring 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Providence College, 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Providence College, 2002-2006 Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2002-present Instructor, Department of Political Science, Providence College, 2000-2001 Teaching Experience and Interests The Global Politics of Religion Comparative Politics Chinese Politics Comparative Asian Politics Comparative Revolutions Model Organization of American States Introduction to Politics Political Ideologies Additional Teaching Experience Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley Department of Political Science, 1993-1999 Instructor, English conversation, Chiaokuang College, Taichung, Taiwan, 1989-91 Instructor, English conversation and composition, Yunnan University, China, 1988-89