Xinyue Zhang

Xinyue Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Yale University. Her research focuses on environmental history and the history of science in modern China and East Asia. Her dissertation explores the history of climate knowledge in the South China Sea region, especially among mobile maritime communities, from World War II through the Cold War. Her previous work on the history of timekeeping technologies in wartime China was awarded the Nathan Reingold Prize for the best graduate student paper from the History of Science Society in 2025.

Xinyue is currently a co-coordinator of the Global Environmental History Working Group and serves on the Graduate Advisory Council of Yale’s Environmental Humanities Program. She co-convened the Asia History Working Group from 2023 to 2024 and was a Graduate Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center during the 2023–2024 academic year.

Xinyue holds a BA in History and the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University (University Honors) and an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University.