# Haoran Zhang ![Haoran Zhang smiling outdoors, wearing glasses, a light button-down shirt, and graduation gown before a stone campus building.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-08/Picture%20of%20Haoran%20Zhang.jpeg?itok=vgcG2yQX) email Haoran Zhang (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. student in History. He is broadly interested in the environmental, economic, and social histories of twentieth-century transpacific East Asia and the United States. His current research focuses on the sugar industries of Taiwan and Hawaiʻi during the colonial and Cold War eras. Haoran holds a B.A. in History and Government from Wesleyan University, and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University. Prior to graduate school, he worked in public interest litigation as a paralegal. - ## Specialty (Graduate Students) [China](/specialty-graduate-students/china) [East Asia](/specialty-graduate-students/east-asia) [Environmental](/specialty-graduate-students/environmental) [Global](/specialty-graduate-students/global) [United States](/specialty-graduate-students/united-states)