Associate Professor

Xiong Xinghan is an Associate Professor at the Fudan Development Institute. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Doctoral Program in Developing Country Studies at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on African Indian Ocean island states and Francophone African countries, with interests spanning African human geography, identity, and social development. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the Madagascar Institute of Political Studies, the University of Toamasina (Madagascar), and the University of Mauritius, and has conducted four years of long-term fieldwork in Madagascar and Mauritius. He is proficient in English and French, and can read Malagasy and Mauritian Creole.

He has published one sole-authored monograph, An Island Becoming Landlocked: Madagascar’s Development Dilemma from an Evolutionary Economic Geography Perspective, and has co-edited six volumes: Guang Yang, Jing Zhang, Xinghan Xiong, and Lanyu Liu (eds.), Risks, Resilience and Interdependency: Developing Countries in the Age of Uncertainties(Chinese and English Version); Guang Yang, Jing Zhang, Lanyu Liu, and Xinghan Xiong (eds.), Countries and Regions: Dynamic Interconnectivity (Chinese and English Version); Zhang Jing and Xiong Xinghan (eds.), World Affairs, Human Relations, and the Field: Selected Fieldwork Studies from Tsinghua University; and Gao Liangmin, Li Yuqing, Xinghan Xiong, Zheng Nan, and Li Yin (eds.), The Global as Field: A Decade of Area Studies at Tsinghua University.

He has published more than ten academic articles in journals such as Area Studies, Fieldwork Studies, and has also contributed multiple chapters to edited volumes. He has participated in several major and general projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.