Han Zhang
Han Zhang

Assistant Professor

I am an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Before joining Brown, I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I have also worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, once at MSRA (Beijing) and once at MSR NYC.

If you are interested in working with me as a research assistant, please send an email with your CV and a brief description of your research interests. My previous students have a great placement records into top programs.

If you would like to work with me as a PhD student, please apply to Brown’s Sociology PhD program.

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Interests
  • Social Movements and Collective Action
  • Political Sociology
  • Surveillance
  • Computational Social Science
  • Quantitative Methodology
  • Social Networks
Education
  • Ph.D. in Sociology, 2020

    Princeton University

  • M.A. in Sociology, 2018

    Princeton University

  • B.A. in History (minor), 2013

    Peking University

  • B.S. in Computer Science, 2013

    Peking University

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