Humanities Core Friday Forum welcomes journalists Katie Stallard and Lucy Hornby, in conversation with Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Katie Stallard is Senior Editor, China and Global affairs, at the New Statesman and the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea (OUP 2022). She is also a non-resident fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. She was previously based in Russia and China as a foreign correspondent for Sky News.
Lucy Hornby lived in China for almost 20 years, working as a journalist for Reuters and the Financial Times, before returning to the United States as a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She first moved to China in 1995, teaching English in Wuhan thanks to Princeton in Asia, a program that builds bridges between the United States and Asia. A fluent Mandarin speaker, Lucy has reported from every Chinese province and region, on topics ranging from elite politics to the trade war and environmental pollution. Her coverage was honored with the 2018 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for excellence in business reporting, among other awards, for investigations into the ownership and financing of some of China’s largest and most opaque conglomerates. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and is now a senior non-resident associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her research focuses on the revival of the Chinese state and the rise of Xi Jinping during the reform era.