Victor Wu

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Graduate School Student

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Victor C. Wu is a PhD student in political science at Yale University. Substantively, his main research interests are in democratic theory, focusing in particular on the place of executive power and political organizations in modern democracies. Methodologically, he is interested in integrating political theory and philosophy of social science with the empirical study of politics, especially comparative-historical approaches. Previously, he was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, an artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a research associate at Harvard Business School. He received his AB in 2016 from Harvard College.

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Education

  • M.A. in China Studies, Peking University, 2024
  • A.B. in Social Studies and Philosophy (magna cum laude), Harvard University, 2016

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Areas of Interest

  • Political Theory
  • Comparative Politics