Education

PhD 2021, Brwon University;

MA 2015, Columbia University

MA 2007, University of Oklahoma;

BA 2003, Peking University.

Work Experience

Peking University:

    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology ,2021-

Research Interests

Ethnosociology
Political Sociology
Ethnic conflicts
Nationalism and State Building

Courses Taught 

UndergraduateCourses: 

    Identity Politics (2022-); 

Graduate Courses: 

    Ethnic and National Policy (2022-);

    Nationalism and State Building (2022-).

Selected Publications (since 2017)

Zhang, Zhe and Sansar Tsakhirmaa (forthcoming). "Higher Income, Greener Grass, or Imagined Community: Why Ethnic Kazakhs Migrated from China to Kazakhstan, 1992-2016." China Information.

Zhang, Zhe, Xu Zhang, and Louis Putterman. 2019. "Trust and Cooperation at a Confluence of Worlds: An Experiment in Xinjiang, China." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 161: 128-144.

Shao, Lei and Zhang, Zhe, 2023. "The Social Integration of Floating Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative Study of Tibetans in Beijing and Chengdu, China." Chinese Political Science Review.