Zhang Xiaojing is currently the Secretary of the Party Committee at the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China (RUC). Her main research areas include higher education administration, research on historical figures in modern and contemporary China, and research on contemporary Chinese political systems. She has received the Third Prize for Outstanding Research in Ideological and Political Education in Capital Universities (2009–2010), the title of Excellent Party Branch Secretary, and the 2009 Advanced Individual in Academic Society Work. Her representative works include Student Affairs Administration in American Universities  and A Critical Biography of Luo Jialun: A Diverging Figure in Modern China .