Yao Lin

Yao Lin (林垚) is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai, and was previously a Global Perspectives on Society Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he had taught and researched at a variety of institutions including Columbia University, Yale University, City University of Hong Kong, and Beijing Normal University. His research and teaching range over philosophy, political theory, comparative politics, and law, and he has written extensively in those areas for both academic and non-academic audiences, especially on applied ethics, liberalism, democratic theory, feminism, American politics, and Chinese politics. More information on Professor Lin’s research, writing, teaching and other activities can be found on his website.

Select Publications

• 2022. “Brokered Dependency, Authoritarian Malepistemization, and Spectacularized Postcoloniality: Reflections on Chinese Academia”, American Behavioral Scientist (online first).

• 2022. “From the Specter of Polygamy to the Spectacle of Postcoloniality: A Response to Bai on Confucianism, Liberalism and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate”, Politics and Religion 15(1): 215-227.

• 2022. “The Bending World, a Bent World: Supernatural Power and Its Political Implications”, in Helen De Cruz & Johan De Smedt (eds.), Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy: Wisdom from Aang to Zuko. Wiley-Blackwell.

• 2021. “Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals”, Journal of Contemporary China 30(127): 85-101.

• 2019. <“我也是”：作为集体行动的公共舆论运动> [“‘Me Too’: Public Opinion Movement as Collective Action”], 《思想》 [Reflexion] 38: 253-324.

• 2017. <同性婚姻、性少数权益与“道德滑坡”论> [“Same-Sex Marriage, Sexual Minority Rights and the ‘Moral Slippery Slope’ Argument”], 《清华西方哲学研究》[Tsinghua Studies of Western Philosophy] 3(2): 411-437.

Education

• JD, Law
  Law School, Yale University (2021)

• PhD, Political Theory & Comparative Politics
  Political Science Department, Columbia University (2016)

• MA, Philosophy
  Philosophy Department, Peking University (2007)

• BSc, Biology
  School of Life Sciences, Peking University (2004)