Honors & Grants

Grants

  • Research Grant for Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, 2023
  • The Spring Breeze Fund for the COVID-19 Research, Tsinghua University, 2020
  • National Social Science Fund, National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), 2019
  • Larry Yung Dissertation Fellowship, Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI), Stanford University, 2015-2017
  • Dale G. Leathers Memorial Research Fund for Promotion of Communication in Emerging Democracies, National Communication Association, 2016
  • Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) Global Policy Fellows Research Grant, Stanford University, 2016
  • Center for East Asia Studies Summer Research Grant, Stanford University, 2015
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Graduate Student Fellowship, Stanford University, 2011

Honors

  • Top Paper Award, The Division of Political Communication, 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, 2023
  • Teaching Excellence Award for Junior Faculty Nomination, Tsinghua University, 2023
  • Best Paper Award, The 40th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Communication Association, 2022
  • Excellence in Online Teaching Award, Tsinghua University, 2021
  • Tang Zhongying Outstanding Junior Scholar, Tsinghua University, 2019
  • Excellent Young Scholar (Overseas) Award, the Ministry of Education, China, 2016
  • Stanford Center at Peking University Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2016
  • Distinguished Graduate Award (top 10%), Tsinghua University, 2009
Kaiping Zhang
Kaiping Zhang
Associate Professor

My research interests include Chinese politics and governance, political communication, deliberative democracy, computational social science.