Mary Elizabeth Gallagher (born June 26, 1969) is an American political scientist. She is currently the Marilyn Keough Dean of the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's John L. Thornton China Center.
Education Gallagher holds a BA in government and East Asian studies (1991) from Smith College and a PhD in politics (2001) from Princeton University.
Academic career Prior to joining Notre Dame, Gallagher was the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Chair in democracy, democratization and human rights at the University of Michigan. She directed UMich's International Institute from 2020 to 2024.
Gallagher serves on the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations' board of directors.
Publications
Books
Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State, Cambridge University Press, September 7, 2017 Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China, Princeton University Press, 2005
Articles
Does a Stronger Xi Mean a Weaker Chinese Communist Party? The New York Times, March 2, 2018
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