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...
Rebecca Wu joined Harvard’s Ph.D. program in History and East Asian Languages in the fall of 2025. She graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in History, magna cum laude (2025). Her senior thesis, which examined petitioning practices in late...
Ben Hales entered Harvard’s History and East Asian Languages (HEAL) program in 2024. He researches the modern history of China’s relationship with Central Asia, focussing in particular on settler-indigenous and sedentary-pastoral relations from the 1940s...