About Me

Dr Jodie Yuzhou Sun is Associate Professor in Modern African and Global History at the Department of History, Fudan University, China. She is also a Non-resident Research Fellow of Fudan Development Institute and Research Fellow of the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa. She holds an MSc in African Studies and a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. Her research interests are modern African history, Cold War history and China-Africa relations. She is the author of Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019 (James Currey, 2023) a finalist for the African Studies Association’s 2024 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize. She has published in Cold War History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Executive Board member of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network. Between 2023-24, she is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for African Studies, Stanford University.