Indiana University welcomes CWP alum Hong Zhang to faculty

The Hamilton Lugar School is pleased to welcome four new faculty members this fall who will bring expertise in a wide range of areas, including Chinese linguistics and second language acquisition, migration law and policy in Korea, African languages and linguistics, and China’s role in global development from Africa to Asia. “We are delighted to have these accomplished scholars and teachers join our faculty,” Hamilton Lugar School Executive Associate Dean David Bosco said. “We look forward to the many ways in which they will strengthen HLS.” 

Hong Zhang

Zhang joins the Department of International Studies as an assistant professor. Her research focuses on China’s role in global development, particularly in infrastructure development and industrialization. Her fieldwork has taken her to various countries in Asia and Africa to examine China’s developmental impact. She co-edits the People’s Map of Global China and the Global China Pulse journal, initiatives that foster collective efforts to study China’s global presence.

Prior to joining Indiana University, Zhang was a China Public Policy postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (2022-2024), a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program (2021-2022).

Zhang earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University, a master’s degree in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Renmin University of China.

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