Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California at Irvine

Editor, Journal of Asian Studies

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in Law, Political Science, and Literary Journalism. A widely published China specialist, who writes trade as well as academic books and contributes to leading general interest periodicals, his book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020) was one of the first studies to deal with the 2019 protests. He has continued to publish updates on developments in Hong Kong in venues such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Journal of Democracy.