Student Profile

Evelyn Chia

Evelyn's research touches on issues of state-society relations in forest governance over three periods in China - the Maoist period from 1949 to 1976, the initial phase of post-Maoist period from 1977 and the recent few years since the implementation of the national logging ban in China. Her interests are in the concept of community governance, political leadership at the local levels, and how state-society relations as well as forest policies shape the politics of common-pool resource governance. She has just completed 8 months of fieldwork in the northwest of Yunnan province.
Evelyn graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia, and more recently obtained an MA in International Studies (focusing on China studies) at the University of Washington in Seattle. She also completed one year of PhD coursework at the University of Maryland Government and Politics PhD program. She was a teaching assistant at the University of Washington for 2 years, teaching courses on political economy of Asia of post-WWII era and Chinese history. She also helped compiled information on environmental movements in Asia for a forthcoming dictionary of Green Movements by Miranda Schreurs, and edited some articles on Asia's environmental governance for the book entitled The Environmental Dimensions of Asian Security: Conflict and Cooperation in Pollution, Energy, and Resources. Evelyn's broader academic interests are of environmental governance in general and the relations of local and extra-local (including policy) on community-owned natural resources.
Email: evelyn.chia@anu.edu.au