Yue Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Political Science
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About
Yue Zhang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Politics from Princeton University and her B.A. degree in International Relations from Peking University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of comparative and urban politics, with a focus on urbanization in the Global South, metropolitan and urban governance, city building and infrastructure development, and global migration. She has conducted research in urban settings of a wide range of countries including China, India, Brazil, France, and the United States. Professor Zhang received the Norton Long Young Scholar Award in 2009 and the Stone Scholar Award in 2010, both from the American Political Science Association’s Urban Politics Section. She is a recipient of a number of distinguished fellowships and grants, with the most recent ones including a residential fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 2015-16, and a “Humanities Without Walls” Global Midwest Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2016-19. She is the author of The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris (University of Minnesota Press 2013; Chinese translation 2018). Her other published work has appeared in Urban Affairs Review, Town Planning Review, Land Use Policy, The China Quarterly, among others. She has been an Editor of Urban Affairs Review. She has conducted policy analysis for the World Bank, UNESCO, Asia Urbs, and other organizations on issues pertaining to governance reforms, inclusive development, and the welfare of migrant workers.
Selected Publications
Book
2013. The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2018. “The Credibility of Slums: Informal Housing and Urban Governance in India.” Land Use Policy, vol. 79, pp. 876-90.
2017. “From the Medinah Temple to Bloomingdale’s: Historic Preservation in a Neoliberal Context.” In Chicago: Neoliberal City, eds. Larry Bennett, Euan Hague, and Roberta Garner. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, pp. 191-208.
2014. “Governing Art Districts: State Control and Cultural Production in Contemporary China.” The China Quarterly, vol. 219, pp. 827-48.
2011. “Boundaries of Power: Politics of Urban Preservation in Two Chicago Neighborhoods.” Urban Affairs Review, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 511-40.
2008. “Steering Toward Growth: Symbolic Urban Preservation in Beijing, 1990-2005.” Town Planning Review, vol. 79, no. 2-3, pp. 187-208.
Notable Honors
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 2015-16
Stone Scholar Award, American Political Science Association, Urban Politics Section, 2010
Norton Long Young Scholar Award, American Political Science Association, Urban Politics Section, 2009
Provost Faculty Award, UIC, 2015
UIC, Faculty Mentor Award for Undergraduate Research Initiative, 2013
Education
Ph.D. in Politics, Princeton University, 2008
B.A. in International Relations, Peking University, 2002
Research Currently in Progress
Beyond the “Slums”: Informal Housing and Urban Governance in China, India, and Brazil. Book
manuscript in progress.
Detroit in China: Postindustrial Cities and Urban Representations in the Midwest and China.
Photo-documentary in progress.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Urban Politics (POLS 210)
Chinese Politics and Society (POLS 231/GLAS 231)
Theories of Urban Politics (POLS 551)
State, Society, and Urbanization: Perspectives from the Global South (POLS 559)
Cities and Globalization (POLS 579)