I am Ryan (Shixiong) Xu, a researcher at the University of Chicago, where I received my M.A. in International Relations.
My work examines the strategic role of legitimacy, reputation, credibility, and trust in international organizations' decision-making, especially in human rights governance.
I study how international organizations respond to contested legitimacy, and how organizational actors interpret the expectations of different audiences.
My approach brings together international relations, organizational theory, computational text analysis, and perspectives from gender and queer theory.
Curriculum Vitae coming soon.
I am interested in how legitimacy, reputation, credibility, and trust shape organizational behavior and decision-making, particularly in international organizations and global governance. My research brings together perspectives from organizational studies and international relations.
This project examines how UN human rights officials use public naming and shaming to respond to legitimacy challenges facing the Human Rights Council, and how these statements can function as institutional self-legitimation.
Recent publications will appear here after the research feed is connected.