The Asian Institute is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Professor William Hurst to political science at the Department of Social Sciences, UTSC. Professor Hurst, a graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago, will be affiliated with the Asian Institute beginning in the fall of 2011. He is currently an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas-Austin, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. Professor Hurst’s first book, The Chinese Worker After Socialism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. He recently completed a Fulbright fellowship in Indonesia, where he has been conducting field work for a new book project comparing courts and legal institutions in China and Indonesia. We are thrilled that Professor Hurst will be joining us soon.