Lucie Lu

Lucie Lu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University and serves as a Project Fellow for the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2023 and previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University.

Lu's research examines how rising powers like China influence global governance norms and international cooperation frameworks, with focus areas including human rights, technology competition, and energy transition. She investigates how China employs narrative strategies to construct shared identities in international relations and responds to recipient country initiatives.

Her work in political communication analyzes China's media strategies for international image-building through state-run media and development project narratives. Lu employs computational methods and text analysis techniques to study large-scale textual data from social media, policy documents, and news sources.