Welcome to my site! My name is Hui Zhou. I earned my Ph.D degree in Political Science from the University of Houston in December 2022. I worked as a non-tenure track Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Louis Univeristy from August 2023 to June 2024. After a wonderful journey at SLU, I will be joining the Institute for Chinese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin as a postdoctoral fellow. I am interested in how political institutions and economic factors shape bureaucratic accountability, government responsiveness and policy outcomes in authoritarian contexts, with a particular focus on China. Besides, I am also interested in big data techniques such as text analysis and machine learning. My research has been published in the China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Social Science & Medicine and International Journal of Legal Medicine. Additionally, I coauthored a book chapter on China's social policy and social equity.

Beyond research, I am also passionate about teaching. My teaching experience includes quantitative methods, American government, Chinese politics and the politics of developing countries. For more details about my research and teaching, please visit the Research and Teaching pages on my site.