Marcus Yee

Marcus Yee is a Ph.D. student in History. Focusing on cities within the South China Sea littoral, his research proposes to look at the history of heat against the legacies of imperialism, international and national developmentalist agendas, and urban environmental injustice. He approaches heat as a multivalent historical phenomenon that involves the histories of climatology, cities, technology, environmental health, and the senses, in hopes of crafting parables that register the climate crisis as a crisis of inequality. He earned a B.A. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), double majoring in History and Earth Systems Science, with a minor in Thai. At HKU he worked on a dissertation examining air-conditioning and thermohistory in Hong Kong.