Fengxiu Zhang

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Fengxiu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is also a core faculty member at the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities in George Mason University.

Her primary areas of research include climate actions, disaster resilience and technology in government. She focuses on integrating institutional, organizational, psychological and network perspectives to advance understanding of the precondition, planning, implementation and challenges of climate actions, including climate adaptation in public organizations and climate mitigation through deployment of electric vehicles. She also expands research on risk and resilience to examine how and why individuals and organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, with a special focus on social vulnerability and social justice. Her recent work on technology centers on open government data (OGD), with a particular focus on problem-driven OGD geared toward addressing complex social problems. Zhang’s work has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Global Environmental Change, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Public Administration, Journal of Environmental Management, Urban Climate and selected transportation journals.

Zhang’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Natural Hazard Center. She has received multiple awards and recognition for her work, including the 2019 Staats Emerging Scholar at Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affair and Administration (NASPAA), 2019 Digital Governance Junior Scholar in Section on Science & Technology in Government (SSTIG) at American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), 2019 Best Student Paper in Section of Transportation Policy and Transportation (STPA) at ASPA, 2019 Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Graduate College of Arizona State University as well as 2019 Honorable Mention, William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for her Public Administration Review article.

She received her Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from Arizona State University in 2020.

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Areas of Research

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Disaster Resilience
• Social Vulnerability and Justice
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Electric vehicles
• Technology In Government
• Quantitative Methods