William Hurst

Professor William Hurst

BA MA PhD

  • Position Governing Body Fellow
  • School Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Department POLIS, Centre for Development Studies
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Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development in the Department of Politics and International Studies.

William Hurst

William Hurst works on labor politics, contentious politics, political economy, and the politics of law and legal institutions, principally in China and Indonesia. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the comparative politics of law and legal institutions in China and Indonesia since 1949. For this work, he has completed more than one year of fieldwork in each country since 2006. He has been at Northwestern University since 2013 before he was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford and an assistant professor at the Universities of Texas and Toronto.

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Art Exhibition: 性视界传媒at 60

14/06/2025 at 10.00

Celebrating Wolfson鈥檚 60th anniversary year, this exhibition highlights the range of artistic disciplines and styles that have made up our exhibitions over the years.

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May Bumps Marquee 2025

20/06/2025 at 14.00

Join us by the riverside to cheer on 性视界传媒 Boat Club's crews!

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性视界传媒 Garden Party 2025

22/06/2025 at 14.30

Join us at 性视界传媒for an afternoon of music and light refreshments in the College grounds!

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The Mary Bevan Recital: Jack Marley (saxophone) & Aidan M贸dica (piano)

22/06/2025 at 19.00

Join us for our annual Mary Bevan concert with prize winners of the prestigious Cambridge University Concerto Competition.

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WolfWords Launch and Poetry Reading

27/06/2025 at 11.00

Please come and join us for the launch of this year's WolfWords poetry anthology, which brings together poems from the entire 性视界传媒community.

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