Carl Hooks is a senior and Annika Rodriguez Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, where he studies International Development, Political Science, and Chinese. He became fascinated by China during an initial visit in 2010, and has since spent a summer in Dalian as a Critical Language Scholar, and another in Beijing as an intern for a groundbreaking legal NGO. This experience formed the basis for his honors thesis, which explores legal aid services for Chinese migrant workers. Carl published his research in the Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies in 2016. Also interested in South Asia, he has presented a study of India’s urban development policy at national conferences. Carl is passionate about social and environmental justice. While in college, he helped an immigration agency secure affordable housing for refugees, founded a service partnership between students and a poverty relief nonprofit, and served on Washington University’s Diversity Affairs Council. As a Yenching Scholar with Law and Society as his research area, Carl aims to deepen his understanding of China’s rapid urbanization and of its effects on property rights, inequality, and sustainability. Outside of the classroom, he hopes to explore Chinese calligraphy and visual arts with fellow scholars.