Biography
Zhanyang Liu is a first-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds dual master’s degrees from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor: an M.S. in Information (Big Data Analytics) and an M.A. in International and Regional Studies (Middle East and North Africa).
Her research examines identity, dissent, and state–society relations in the Middle East and beyond. She is particularly interested in how religion and institutions shape political behavior and public discourse. Methodologically, her work integrates natural language processing and computational text analysis with qualitative approaches.
Research Interests:
Comparative politics, political methodology, identity politics, contentious politics