The Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (hereafter, the "Fudan lAS") was established in 2008 as a university-level, substantial and comprehensive social sciences research institute. In line with Fudan University's strategic mission to become a "Double First-Class" university, the Fudan IAS has been an important platform for interdisciplinary integration, high-level talents recruitment, hosting world-renowned scholars and international scholarly exchange at Fudan University.
The Fudan IAS has initiated two regular and signature interdisciplinary research projects—— "Annual Themes" and "Global Justice Index and Database Project." For the annual theme project, an academic research team consisting of full-time researchers, "researchers in-residence", postdoctoral fellows and international visiting scholars conducts thematic interdisciplinary researches on some major topics in frontier fields and theories in social sciences. The research team has published works and academic papers, including book series China in Transition jointly published by the Shanghai People’s Publishing House/Truth & Wisdom Press. In addition," Global Justice Index and Database" is a comprehensive project integrating academic research, scholarly exchange, international publication and database construction. This project focuses on the cutting-edge and global issues of "global justice," integrating social science related faculty and bringing together outstanding international scholars to collaborate on key research agendas and problems. In 2020, the project released its first Global Justice Index Report. Since then, annual report has been released for four consecutive years.
The Fudan IAS also runs academic institutions including the Contemporary China Research Center, Chinese Modernization Research Center, AI and Social Science Research Lab, the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (FDHS) editorial office and Chinese Political Science Review (CPSR) editorial office. These two journals are International English journals published by the Springer-Nature Press, and both of the journals are included in the Web of Science Core Collection of Clarivate Analytics. FDHS IF=2.3, SJR Q1, CPSR IF=3.4, SJR Q1.
The Fudan IAS has 15 research fellows, including one University Honorary Professor (Sujian Guo), two Fudan Distinguished Professors (Sujian Guo and Donghang He), two Fudan Distinguished Chair Professors (Jean-Marc Coicaud and Daniel A. Bell), three full professors (Su GU, Guodong SUN and Xi LIN), one Senior Research Fellow (Yu WANG), four associate professors (Zhongyuan WANG, Yanfeng GU, Xuan QIN and Weizhan MENG), three assistant professors (Wen QU, Yiqing GAN, Hanzhi DENG).
Dr. Sujian GUO, a political scientist and Honorary University Professor, serves as the Dean of the Fudan IAS. Professor Guo is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of four international English journals (Journal of Chinese Political Science, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences，Chinese Political Science Review, Journal of Chinese Governance), the editor of the book series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development published by the Rowman & Littlefield, the editor of the book series China in Transition published by the Shanghai People’s Publishing House/Truth & Wisdom Press, the Director of the Center for US-China Policy Studies and the former president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies.