Joel Andreas, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2685
Phone (410) 516-7325
Fax (410) 516-7590
E-mail:  jandreas@jhu.edu

Curriculum Vita (PDF)

I study changes in class relations in China since 1949. I recently finished a book manuscript that analyzes the contentious merger of old and new elites in China during the communist era. The book, based on a case study of Tsinghua University (China's premier school of science and technology and the alma mater of many of its top leaders), focuses on conflict over the political and cultural foundations of class power. I am currently investigating changing labor relations in Chinese factories between 1949 and the present.

I joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2003 after completing a doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. I teach social theory at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as courses on political sociology, class structures in capitalist and socialist societies, and social inequality in China.