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James Lin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History (College of Arts & Sciences). He holds a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley (2017), an M.A. from Columbia University (2010), and a B.A. from UC Berkeley (2007). His research focuses on modern Taiwan’s global engagements, agrarian development, and Cold War-era technical diplomacy. He is the author of *In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan* (UC Press, 2025), examining rural reform and Taiwanese development missions in the Global South.
Lin’s work bridges political economy, environmental history, and science studies. He has held fellowships at the Shanghai University Center for Global Development History and Academia Sinica. His awards include the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Fellowship and Fulbright.
He teaches courses on global capitalism, Taiwan studies, and modern East Asia. Lin actively engages in public scholarship through writing for *The Guardian*, *Jacobin*, and media consultations (e.g., for *Last Week Tonight*).
