Education Background:

B.A. in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK, 2014

M.Phil. in Politics, University of Oxford, UK, 2015

D.Phil. in Politics, University of Oxford, UK, 2019

Research Areas：

International conflict, International relations theory, Global anthropology

Books:

Lu, Xiaoyu. Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate. St Antony's Series, Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.

Lu, Xiaoyu. Dreams of Lima: Xiaoyu’s Latin American Notes, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2021

Articles:

Lu, Xiaoyu. How Jihadists Travel: The Clandestine Migration of Chinese Transnational Fighters to Syria, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2022.2130738, 2022.

Lu, Xiaoyu, Hao Wu, and Beini Liu. "Eroded sovereignty or algorithmic nation? Transnational diffusion of blockchain in governance." International Journal of Electronic Governance 13, no. 4 (2021): 486-518.

Lu, Xiaoyu. "The Imperative to Narrate: Personal Storytelling and LGBT Norm Translation in China." Human Rights Quarterly, 42, no. 3 (2020): 545-572.

Transcending the North-South Divide: Norm Subsidiary and China’s Development Experience through the UNDP, in L.M.Alagna (edited by), Sud Nord: identità,sviluppo,confini, Palermo University Press, Palermo, 2019.

Double Dissidents: The Cognitive Dissonance of Overseas Chinese Students”. China Channel, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018.