Frank Maracchione is a critical political economist and an international relations scholar focusing on Global China and Central Asia. He is currently ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, where he is working on a book manuscript based on his PhD on agency and coloniality in Uzbekistan's encounter with Global China. In February 2027, he will start a Hallsworth Fellowship in Chinese Political Economy at the University of Manchester, where he will work on a three-year project exploring community-level interactions with Chinese-funded economic production in Uzbekistan through a social reproduction approach.
Frank Maracchione
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London (UK)