Professor

Dr. ZHOU Yan is Professor at the Fudan Development Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tsinghua University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. She is a Visiting Professor at Brazil’s National School of Public Administration, a Collaborative Researcher at the University of Brasília, and a board member of the Chinese Association of Latin American Studies. Previously, she served as Deputy Director at the Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University, as well as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo.

Her research falls within area studies with a focus on Brazil and other Latin American countries. Her interests include political elites, state–society relations, class and political behavior, as well as culture and religion. She is fluent in English and Portuguese and has working proficiency in Spanish. She has conducted more than five years of fieldwork in Brazil.

Representative works include:

1. ZHOU, Yan. 2024. Capitals and Segregation: A Study on Educational Mobility of Brazilian New Middle Class. China Social Sciences Press. 

2. ZHOU, Yan. 2023. “Between Left and Right: An Analysis of the Political Ideology of Evangelicals in Brazil.” World Religion and Culture, 6: 88-95. 

3. ZHOU, Yan. 2023. “Institutional Demand and Supply: Exploring the Reasons for Brazil’s Proximity to the United States.” Area Studies, 2: 5-31. (Academic paper in Chinese).

4. ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Explaining the Brazilian New Middle Class’s Weakening Support for Left-wing Parties.” International Forum, 21(1): 114-126.

5. ZHOU, Yan. 2019. “Christian Evangelicals’ Participation in Brazilian Institutionalized Politics and Its Impact.” World Religion and Culture, 117(3): 60-67. 

6. ZHOU, Yan. 2025. Translated work: Arnold J. Bauer, Goods, Power; History.:Latin Americas Material Culture, Shanghai People’s Press. 

Email: yan_zhou@fudan.edu.cn