Adam K Webb has served on the faculty at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center as a Professor of Political Science since 2008. He previously taught at Princeton and Harvard and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests cut broadly across political thought, globalization, and critiques of modernity. He has also engaged topics connected with politics on the ground, including social movements, alternative development, and public opinion on cosmopolitanism and the rise of China. He brings an international perspective to the HNC and Sino-American relations, including a background of living in England, Spain, the U.S., and China, as well as doing fieldwork in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. He is the author of three books, includingBeyond the Global Culture War(2006), A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow’s Economy of Values(2009), and Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation(2015). He is currently completing a book project laying out a traditional pluralist vision of future global constitutional order. He received his AB in Social Studies from Harvard and his MA and PhD in Politics from Princeton University.