Schar Faculty

Areas of Research: Comparative Politics, Conflict Studies, Democratization, Gender, Latin America, Historical Memory, Human Rights, Qualitative Methods, State-Society Relations, Transitional Justice

Areas of Research: Public Management, Public Administration Ethics, Administrative Law, Judicial Process, and Organization Theory

Areas of Research: Politics of punishment, Penal law, Law & society, Democratic theory

Areas of Research: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Biodefense, Ethics and Weapons Development, Former Soviet States, Health and Security, Illicit Trade, International Security, Knowledge Management, Qualitative Methods, Science and Technology Studies, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Areas of Research: Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nationalist and Ethnoreligious Social Movements, Politics and Society in Contemporary Israel

Areas of Research: Economic Development, Economic Policy, Energy Policy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Industrial Organization, International Development, Microeconomics, Regional Development, Science and Technology Policy

Areas of Research: Race and Ethnicity, Urban Policy, Housing

Edmund J. Zolnik is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His major areas of expertise are community and regional development; safe and sustainable transportation; and multilevel modeling.

Ketian Vivian Zhang is an assistant professor of international security in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She studies rising powers, coercion, economic statecraft, and maritime disputes in international relations and social movements in comparative politics, with a regional focus on China and East Asia.

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