
Maria Adele Carrai
Assistant Professor, Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai
Address: New York University Shanghai, 1555 Century Ave,
Pudong, Shanghai, China, 200122
Email: mac1041@nyu.edu
Twitter: @adele_carrai
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Maria Adele Carrai is an Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai. Her research explores the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power shapes norms and redefines the international distribution of power. She co-leads the Research Initiative ‘Mapping Global China,’ and is the author of Sovereignty in China. A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840 (CUP 2019) and co-editor of The China Questions 2 – Critical Insights into US-China Relations (HUP 2022). Before joining NYU Shanghai, she was a recipient of a three-year Marie-Curie fellowship at KU Leuven. She was also a Fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Max Weber Program of the European University Institute of Florence, and New York University Law School.
Education
PhD, Law
The University of Hong Kong
MA, Political Science
University of Bologna
MA, East Asian Studies
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
BA, Chinese Studies
Sapienza University of Rome
Research Interests
International Law
Legal History
International Relations
Global China