Jiajia Zhou

Jiajia Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation research seeks to clarify the populist threat to democracies through a comparative perspective of political parties and policy processes. Her project is supported by the Japan Foundation, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Association, and the Tan Kah Kee Foundation. She holds an M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia from Columbia University and a B.A. (Hons) in Japanese Studies and Economics from the National University of Singapore.