Kyle Jaros

Kyle Jaros is associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs, with a concurrent appointment in the Department of Political Science. He became a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow in 2024.

Jaros’s research explores the politics of urban and regional development, intergovernmental relations, and subnational foreign engagement with a focus on China. His first book, China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development (Princeton University Press, 2019) examines the policy logics and political factors driving uneven development in China’s provinces. His work has appeared in leading China studies and social science journals such as The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Modern China, Politics & Society, and Studies in Comparative International Development. 

Previously, Jaros was associate professor in the political economy of China at the University of Oxford and held a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. Jaros earned a PhD and MA in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University and holds a graduate certificate in Chinese studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.