Her research interest include Comparative Urban Politics and Policy, Urban Governance, Globalization, Urbanization in Developing Countries, Historic Preservation, and Cultural Policy. Dr. Zhang has published in Studies of International Politics, Urban China Review, China Governance Review, The China Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review, among others. Dr. Zhang received her PhD in Politics from Princeton University, and received a Stone Scholar Award in 2010, as well as a Norton Long Young Scholar Award in 2009 from the American Political Science Association’s Urban Politics Section .