Hello everyone! My name is Zou Yun and I am a PhD candidate in the history department. My research interests lie in the gender and environmental history of 20th-century China, and my dissertation explores women’s active participation in transforming nature through labor in Mao’s China.
My passion for digital heritage springs from a deep commitment to public history. The more I study history, the more convinced I become that it shouldn’t be confined to intellectuals and academics. It belongs to everyone. I hope that my own research and projects can reach beyond academia and become accessible, engaging, and meaningful to the public. I also see a pressing need to digitize, preserve, catalog, and exhibit historical sources so they can live on in new, interactive forms. Joining the CHI Fellowship feels like the exciting first step on what I hope will be a long and fulfilling digital humanities journey. Eventually, I aim to master essential tools such as digital preservation, data visualization, and collaborative digital storytelling to enrich my research and public engagement.
Before beginning my PhD program, I spent a year working in a digital advertising company, where I learned to design and run multi-channel campaigns and became fluent in SEO, social media strategy, and user engagement analytics. That experience gave me a practical understanding of how digital platforms operate as public interfaces, how metadata shapes discoverability, and how narrative framing influences audience response.That said, I’m still very much a beginner when it comes to the technical side of digital humanities. Coding and all that comes with it are brand new to me! But that’s exactly why I’m so eager to learn from CHI and from the incredible community of fellows. I can’t wait to dive in and grow together!
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