David R. Stroup is a Senior Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester, where he has been since 2019. He is the author of Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims (University of Washington Press, 2022) which focuses on how the renegotiation of ethnic boundaries in ethnic Hui Muslim communities in the context of urbanization interacts with China’s state policies on ethnic and religious identification. His current research on examines the relationship between everyday expressions of Islamophobia and Han chauvinist expressions of nationhood on Chinese social media platforms. His areas of specialization within the field of comparative politics include: nationalism and ethnic politics, everyday ethnicity, the politics of authoritarianism, and state-society relations.