Amy Liu is a professor in the Government Department and co-director of the Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on the intersection of ethnic politics, language politics, and migration politics. Amy’s first book, Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015), examines how the recognition of lingua francas can be conducive to economic growth. The second book, The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe (Temple University Press 2021), looks at the linguistic networks of Chinese migrants and the implications for engagement with local authorities in Europe. She has a forthcoming coauthored monograph (Cambridge University Press) explaining the diversity and representation of government cabinets in Asia and Europe.
Amy Liu
Guest Speaker
Professor, Government Department, University of Texas at Austin
