Dr. Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University. She is currently a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University for spring 2024 through the DFAT-funded Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies.
Dr. Fung is concurrently Non-Resident Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; at Asia Society Australia, and at the Lowy Institute. She is also part of the Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS) initiative.
Dr. Fung was previously an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, where she was a 2016 recipient of the HKU Early Career Teaching Award. Her other prior positions include research fellowships with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and the East Asia Institute (Seoul) in their Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia; a post-doctoral research fellowship with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, based at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, and pre-doctoral research fellowships with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and with the Global Peace Operations Program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University.
Dr. Fung's book, China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) explains the effects of status on China's varied response to intervention and foreign-imposed regime change at the United Nations. Her book was shortlisted for the BISA LHM Ling Outstanding First Book Prize and received the 2019 - 2020 HKU Research Output Prize for the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Australian Journal of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Cooperation and Conflict, Global Governance, Global Policy, International Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Cyber Policy, Journal of Global Security Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, The China Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and International Peacekeeping.
Dr. Fung holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where she was awarded the Peter Ackerman Dissertation Prize for her doctoral thesis. She also holds an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from the George Washington University, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Fung is also a graduate of the Middlebury College Chinese Summer Language School, where she was a Kathryn Davis fellow. Additional training includes the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research, Syracuse University and the Graduate Institute for Teaching, Tufts University.
She serves as an associate editor for H-Diplo ISSF, Contemporary Security Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. She is on the Board of Advisors of the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and with the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. She is the 2023 - 2025 treasurer of the ISA International Organization Section.