Marcus Yee

I am a PhD student researching environmental history and the history of Southeast Asia, as well as a 2022-2023 Whitney Humanities Center Fellow in the Environmental Humanities. My doctoral research proposes to look at the history of heat against the legacies of imperialism, international and national developmentalist agendas, and urban environmental injustice across cities within the South China Sea littoral. I understand heat as a multivalent historical phenomenon that involves the histories of climatology, cities, technology, environmental health, and the senses. Ultimately, I work towards crafting parables that register the ongoing climate crisis as a crisis of inequality.