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Dr. Maria C. Morgan

Status
Lecturer

Contact
mcmorgan@nps.edu

Research Interests
Comparative development strategies; comparative political economies;foreign direct investment in China

Biography
Maria Morgan is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Naional Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. She joined the school in 2002 after teaching at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Morgan's publications include "Decentralization in China: The Special Economic Zones as Legacy of an Unresolved Policy Dilemma" in Manfred Romich, ed. Wirtschaftsreform und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung, China im zweiten Jahrzehnt nach Mao (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991); "Economic Reform and Political Legitimacy in Post-Mao China" in Stuart Nagel, ed., Handbook of Global Economic Policy (New York, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc. 2000); and "Administrative Reforms in China" in Krishna K. Tummala, ed. Comparative Bureaucratic System (Lexington Books, 2003). She has also published in journals such as Asian Survey, American Journal of Sociology, and China Review International.

Dr. Morgan consults for American firms doing business in China, and teaches courses on Political Economy of China and Comparative Market Reforms. Born in Hong Kong, she earned her undergraduate degree in Economics at Hong Kong University (1964) , her Master's degree in Political Science at Syracuse University (1967), and her Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University (1987).