Amy H. Liu

Amy H. Liu is a Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts. Her research sits at the intersection of language politics and ethnic politics, with regional expertise in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Greater China. She has secured grants for course development on ethnic politics in Taiwan and Eastern Europe, and her work engages with machine-assisted coding, text analysis, and survey data to study topics like ethnic trust, language regimes, and political incorporation of migrants.

• Research Themes: Language and political trust, ethnic minority recognition, comparative political methodology, and state-society relations.
• Grants: Funded by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Center for Asian Studies.
• Teaching: Courses on the politics of language, Eastern European governance, and comparative race/ethnicity.

Publications span journals like PNAS Nexus, British Journal of Political Science, and Asian Politics and Policy. She also co-edited volumes on regional movements in Southeast Asia and ethnic politics in cabinets. Her work employs comparative case studies and survey experiments, including fieldwork in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.