Cheng Chen is Assistant Professor of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Her research and teaching interests include post-communist politics, nationalism and nation-building, democratization, Chinese politics, and comparative-historical methodology. She is the author of The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist States (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007). In addition, she has published in refereed journals such as Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies and East European Politics and Societies. Currently, she is working on a methodological research note on cross-regional historical comparisons in comparative politics and an article on politics in North Korea.
