Nan Zhang, Ph.D.

Nan Zhang
Leader Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
nan.zhang [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2098
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2803
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:321
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.2105
Making Diversity Work: New Behavioural Indicators of Social Cohesion in Multiethnic Communities

Publications

Journal Articles

Poertner, Mathias, and Nan Zhang (In Press): The Effects of Combating Corruption on Institutional Trust and Political Engagement: Evidence from Latin America. Political Science Research and Methods, (publ. online before print). more
Lee, Melissa, Nan Zhang and Tilmann Herchenröder (2024): From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century America. American Political Science Review, 118, issue 1, pp. 127-143. more
Zhang, Nan, and Maria Abascal (2024): Cultural Adaptation and Demographic Change: Evidence from Mexican-American Naming Patterns During the California Gold Rush. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50, issue 1, pp. 132-148. more
Kretschmer, David, Johanna Gereke, Fabian Winter and Nan Zhang (2023): No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: A Comment on Smith et al. 2016. American Journal of Sociology, 129, issue 2, pp. 570-585. more
Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Hung Nguyen, Daniel Auer, Oke Bahnsen, Paul C. Bauer, Julian Bernauer, Simon Ellerbrock, Tobias Gummer, Stefanie Heyne, Matthias Mader, Christoph Wolf, Nan Zhang and et al. (2022): Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: PNAS, 119, issue 44, (article no. e2203150119), pp. 1-8. more
Gereke, Johanna, Joshua Hellyer, Jan Behnert, Saskia Exner, Alexander Herbel, Felix Jäger, Dean Lajic, Štěpán Mezenský, Vu Anh, Tymoteusz Ogłaza, Jule Schabinger, Anna Sokolova, Daria Szafran, Noah Tirolf, Susanne Veit and Nan Zhang (2022): Demographic change and group boundaries in Germany: The effect of projected demographic decline on perceptions of who has a migration background. Sociological Science, 9, issue May, pp. 206-220. more
Zhang, Nan, Johanna Gereke and Delia Baldassarri (2022): Everyday Discrimination in Public Spaces: A Field Experiment in the Milan Metro. European Sociological Review, 38, issue 5, pp. 679–693. more

Conference Presentations

Kommol, Alexandra, and Nan Zhang (2023): Cross-cutting cleavages and refugee-native contact. [IMEBESS 7th Annual Conference, Lisbon, May 18th to May 20th, 2023] more
Kommol, Alexandra, and Nan Zhang (2023): Cross-cutting cleavages and refugee-native contact. [V Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology, Madrid, August 30th to September 01st, 2023] more
Kommol, Alexandra, and Nan Zhang (2023): Cross-cutting Cleavages and Refugee-Native Contact: Evidence from Germany. [20th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Warsaw, July 03rd to July 06th, 2023] more
Kommol, Alexandra, and Nan Zhang (2023): Intergroup Similarity and Refugee Native Contact: A Field Experimental Design. [MZES Ethnic Diversity Spring Workshop, Mannheim, March 30th, 2023] more
Kommol, Alexandra, and Nan Zhang (2022): Cross-cutting cleavages and native-refugee contact: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany. [Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications, Venice, November 14th to November 17th, 2022] more
Kommol, Alexandra, and Nan Zhang (2022): Cross-cutting cleavages and native-refugee contact: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany. [DeZIM Annual Conference 2022, Berlin, October 05th to October 07th, 2022] more
Gereke, Johanna, Joshua Hellyer and Nan Zhang (2021): Do trigger events trigger stress? Hate crime victimization and stress after Charlottesville. [ECSR Annual Conference 2021, (virtual conference), October 07th to October 08th, 2021] more
Zhang, Nan, and Maria Abascal (2021): Cultural Adaptation and Demographic Change: Evidence from Mexican-American Naming Patterns During the California Gold Rush. [Collegio Carlo Alberto: Politics and Society Departmental Seminar Series, Turin, November 11th, 2021] more
Zhang, Nan, and Maria Abascal (2021): Cultural Adaptation and Demographic Change: Evidence from Mexican-American Naming Patterns During the California Gold Rush. [Seminar "Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications", Venice, November 08th to November 11th, 2021] more
Zhang, Nan, and Maria Abascal (2021): Cultural Adaptation and Demographic Change: Evidence from Mexican-American Naming Patterns During the California Gold Rush. [Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES) 2021, Ascona, September 15th to September 17th, 2021] more
Zhang, Nan, Johanna Gereke and Delia Baldassarri (2019): Covert discrimination is unaffected by immigrants' socioeconomic status. [2nd Academy of Sociology Conference: "Digital Societies", Konstanz, September 25th to September 27th, 2019] more
Zhang, Nan, Johanna Gereke and Delia Baldassarri (2019): Covert discrimination is unaffected by immigrants' socioeconomic status. [Neuchâtel Graduate Conference "Innovative Approaches to Migration and Mobility Studies", Neuchâtel, September 12th to September 13th, 2019] more