She is the director of the Rutgers Institute on Anti-Corruption Studies, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Zhang is currently working on an anti-corruption research project that consists of two phases: data collection of public corruption cases at the individual and organizational levels and empirical examination of systematic factors that lead to public corruption. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, and Public Performance and Management Review.