PhD Students

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Zelin Wang

East Asia, 2025 (PhD Student)

zelinwang@uchicago.edu

Interests:

history of science, history of medicine, history of psychiatry, ecology and displacement.

Wei Wang

East Asia, 2025 (PhD Student)

weii@uchicago.edu

Interests:

East Asia; gender history

Muyu Xie

East Asia - China, 2023 (PhD Student)

muyuxie@uchicago.edu

Ruiling Xue

East Asia - China, 2021 (PhD Student)

akishiro@uchicago.edu

Joseph Yalowitz

United States, 2022 (PhD Student)

jyalowitz@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Twentieth-century United States; history of capitalism; history of science, technology, and medicine.

Tingfeng Yan

United States, pre-1865, 2020 (PhD Student)

tingfengyan@uchicago.edu

Interests:

British empire and the American Revolution

Olivia Young

Early Modern Europe, 2022 (PhD Student)

omyoung@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early Modern and Modern Europe, Jewish History, Political Economy and Economic Theory, Transregional and Cross-Cultural Relations, Intellectual History, and the Middle East. 

Shaoyu Zhang

East Asia, 2024 (PhD Student)

shaoyu@uchicago.edu

Rui Zhao

East Asia, 2025 (PhD Student)

rzhao1@uchicago.edu

Interests:

history of early modern and modern China; interactions between China and Southeast Asia; frontier history; economic history; environmental history; indigenous history; family and gender

Xinyang Zhou

East Asia - China, 2023 (PhD Student)

xinyangz@uchicago.edu

Interests:

History of childhood of late imperial and modern China; girlhood studies; gender and family; everyday life and material culture; history of bodies and emotions

Galina Zhuravleva

Russia/Eurasia, 2023 (PhD Student)

galyazhur@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Empires and revolutions; former Russian empire in the 20th century; interbellum period; political culture and history of vandalism; history of migration and mobility.