Fengxiu Zhang

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Fengxiu Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She also serves as an advisory committee member for the Virginia Climate Center (VCC) and is a core faculty affiliate at the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at George Mason University. She earned her PhD in public administration and policy from Arizona State University in 2020.

Her primary areas of research include climate adaptation, disaster resilience, technology in government and EV transition. She focuses on integrating institutional, organizational, psychological and network perspectives to advance understanding of climate adaptation in public organizations to inform management and policy for enhanced resilience. She also expands research on risk and resilience to examine how and why individuals and organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. Her recent work on technology centers on open government data, with a particular focus on the users’ perspective and its implications for social equity. Through collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, she is also conducting extensive research on the transition to EVs, including both personal vehicles and public fleets. The former seeks to comprehensively investigate the energy justice implication of policy actions to address EV infrastructure needs, and the latter focuses on developing equitable sociotechnical solutions to facilitate fleet electrification. 

Zhang’s research 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, Climatic Change and selected transportation journals. Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Natural Hazards Center, and the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority, totaling over $2 million.

Zhang has received multiple awards and recognition for her work, including the 2022 Best Reviewer from Journal of Public Administration and Research Theory, 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, and the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for her Public Administration Review article.

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Areas of Research

• Climate change adaptation
• Disaster resilience
• EV transition
• Social Justice  
• Decision making under risk and uncertainty
• Technology in government
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Critical Infrastructure Protection