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William Hurst is the Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge. He is a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College and is affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies and the Centre for Geopolitics.
Hurst has been a faculty member at the University of Cambridge since 2013. Prior to this, he held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and as an assistant professor at the Universities of Texas and Toronto.
His research spans four major themes: labor politics, contentious politics, political economy, and the politics of law and legal institutions, with a regional focus on 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, based on over a year of fieldwork in each country since 2006.
Hurst’s publications reflect a deep engagement with the evolution of Chinese and Indonesian governance, labor rights, urban development, and legal reform. His work critically examines how authoritarian regimes manage legal institutions, labor unrest, and urban transformation, offering comparative insights into state-society relations in East and Southeast Asia.
While no specific students or awards are listed in the provided text, Hurst’s academic trajectory and publication record indicate a strong commitment to both research and pedagogy in development studies and comparative politics.
