Rate My Professor June Dreyer

Dreyer teaches courses on China, U.S. defense policy, and international relations of East Asia. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, minority nationalities, Sino-Japanese relations, and U.S.-China security issues. She is the author of several influential books, including China's Political System: Modernization and Tradition, now in its 11th edition (Routledge, 2023); Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2016, updated paperback 2018); and China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China (Harvard University Press, 1976). She has edited volumes such as Chinese Defense and Foreign Policy (Paragon House, 1989) and Taiwan in the Tsai Era: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge). Dreyer has received the University of Miami Faculty Senate’s Distinguished Scholar award (2017), the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals award for best book of 2016 (2017), and served as President of the American Association for Chinese Studies (2018-2021). She is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and serves on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Contemporary China.