Xinyue Zhang

Xinyue Zhang is a third-year Ph.D. student in History at Yale University. Her research focuses on environmental history and the history of science in modern China and East Asia. Her proposed dissertation explores the history of climate knowledge in the South China Sea region, especially among fishing communities, from World War II through the Cold War.

 

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. From 2023 to 2024, she was a graduate fellow in Environmental Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center. She also co-convened the Asia History Working Group from 2023 to 2024. 

 

Xinyue earned her bachelor’s degree in History and the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University and completed her master’s in East Asian Studies at Yale.