Songying Fang is an assistant professor of political science at Rice University. Her research focuses on how international institutions influence state behavior. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and Quarterly Journal of Political Science. While at Hoover, she will study how the relationships between different types of regimes may affect international conflict. Professor Fang received her PhD from the University of Rochester and was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota before joining the faculty at Rice University. She was also a fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and co-organized the “International Political Economy and China” conference in 2008 in Beijing sponsored by the Niehaus Center.