Dr. Jan Robert R Go

Non-resident Fellow of RCAS

Email: jrgo1@up.edu.ph

Dr. Jan Robert R Go is Non-resident Fellow at Research Centre for Asian Studies (RCAS), China, as well as an assistant professor of political theory at the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman and currently Associate Dean for Research, Extension, and Publications of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP). He has been the managing editor of the Philippine Political Science Journal (PPSJ), the internationally refereed journal of the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA), since 2014. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies (PACS).

Dr Go obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) degree from UP Manila and Master of Arts (Political Science) from UP Diliman. In 2017, he attended the Chinese Language Summer School at Peking University in Beijing, China. He received his doctoral degree in political theory from the Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China, in 2022.

Dr Go was selected as a fellow for the 2021 American Political Science Association Asia Workshop, focusing on local politics and governance in East and Southeast Asia. He handles undergraduate courses in Philippine politics, Asian and Philippine political thought, and qualitative methods of inquiry. His areas of interest include local politics and decentralisation, urban and rural grassroots politics, construction of power, participation theory, and Chinese politics.

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