“In treating all Chinese students and scholars as suspect, the United States jeopardizes the benefits of one of our largest service ‘exports’ to China and risks diminishing one of our greatest sources of soft power — our world class universities,” said Mary Gallagher, U-M professor of political science and director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, on the prospect the U.S. may restrict Chinese students coming to America.

Professor Gallagher's research areas are Chinese politics, comparative politics of transitional and developing states, and law and society.