Anatol Klass

Anatol Klass is a CWP fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. He is a historian with research interests focused on twentieth-century China. Anatol’s first book project, adapted from his dissertation, examines the bureaucratic development of the institutions through which the Chinese state engages with the world and the professional identities of experts working within those institutions. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024 and, prior to joining CWP, was a predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Anatol’s research has been published in the International History Review and Cold War History. His writing on China has also appeared in publications including the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and History Today.