Aaron Glasserman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania and a non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University. His research interests include the history and politics of ethnicity and religion in China; minority nationalism; law and legal history; comparative religion-state relations; and modern Islamic political and religious movements. He was previously an Academy Scholar (postdoctoral fellow) at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 2021 and a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2013.