MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center

Jing Zhang

Fox International Fellow
Fox International Fellowship, MacMillan Center
Academic Year: 2026-27
Direction: To Yale
Exchange Partner: University of Cambridge, England
Project Title: Class, Mobility and Study-to-work Transitions of First-generation Chinese International HASS PhDs

Jing Zhang is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Cambridge. Her research investigates class, mobility, and study-to-work transition of Chinese first-generation postgraduates from HASS (humanities, arts, and social science) disciplines in a transnational context. She holds an M.Ed. in Higher Education and a B.A. in Anthropology. Her master’s thesis adopted an autoethnographic approach to analyse the educational trajectory of a Chinese “small-town swot”. Her undergraduate thesis investigated the educational change of a rural She ethnic minority village named Guanshe in Zhangzhou, Fujian province.