Xinyue Zhang

Xinyue Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Yale University. Her research focuses on the environmental history and the history of science in modern China and East Asia. Currently, her work explores the intersection of disasters, wars, and climate knowledge between the 1930s and the 1950s in China and transnationally in Asia. She is particularly interested in exploring the role of transnational knowledge networks, as well as how non-expert actors understood and mitigated weather-related risks during and after the Second World War. She is involved in the Environmental Humanities program at Yale and is currently a co-convener of the Asia History Working Group.

Xinyue received a B.A. in History and College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale. She began her Ph.D. in 2023.