Hi! I am a PhD student at the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My current research interests lie in the field of international political economy, with a particular focus on foreign aid effectiveness, geopolitics of aid, public opinion towards aid, and the use of experimental and computational methods. My geographical focus is on South Asia. I am currently working on Formations of Trust, a project that documents historical narratives of foreign aid in Pakistani newspapers.

Previously, at the University of Chicago, I was honored to work with Prof. Tyler Williams on the political economy of the mass production and circulation of Ibn-e-Safi's crime novels and the publishing industries in Pakistan and India, and the paper is available here. In my early projects, I worked on the social and political situations of Tibetan Catholics and conducted ethnography along the Yunnan-Tibet border in China under the supervision of Prof. Theodore Pulcini.

I graduated with a BA (Hons.) in Political Science and Religion from Dickinson College, whose commitment to liberal arts education has forever urged me to find a balance between humanities and sciences. I also hold a MTS in Religion and the Social Sciences from Harvard University, and a MA in South Asian Languagues from The University of Chicago. For more information, please reach out to me at shuyanh2@illinois.edu or michaelhuangshuyan@outlook.com.

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