Date: February 17, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm -
Speaker: Dr. Maria Repnikova
Location: Hamilton School, 5th Floor, Room E581 (CSE Building)
Maria Repnikova is an expert in China’s political communication (both domestic and global), an Associate Professor in Global Communication, and the inaugural William C. Pate Chair in Strategic Communication at Georgia State University. Dr. Repnikova is the author of the award-winning book, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge 2017), and the recent “element” book, Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge Global China Element Series 2022). Her public writings have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Atlantic, as well as in many academic journals. In the past five years, she has been researching and completing a monograph on China’s image-building in Africa, with a focus on Ethiopia (forthcoming with CUP). Other than working on China, Repnikova does comparative work on information politics in China and Russia and transnational work on China-Russia relations. Dr. Repnikova holds a doctorate in politics from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar. In the past, she was a China Wilson Fellow (2023-24), a Wilson Fellow (2020-2021), a visiting fellow at the African Studies Center at Beijing University (2019), and a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication (2014-2016). WSS Seminar
