Elya Zhang Database

Elya J. Zhang (elya.j.zhang@gmail.com) is a lecturer of history at University of Rochester. She received her B.A. from the Renmin University of China and her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego. In her research and teaching, she explores the financial and spatial history of capitalism in China. Her writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies, Business History Review, Reviews in American History, and two edited volumes by Cornell University Press and Stanford University Press. She has been awarded an An Wang postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center, an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship, and an Abraham J. Karp teaching award at the University of Rochester. As a map lover, she also designed eight different courses in a row to systematically test the integration of scientific map-making into history research. By 2021, this unique challenge has attracted 327 students from 51 majors to experiment outside their comfort zones.