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Yandong is a PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies and the program of Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the University of Washington, where he is a Presidential Dissertation Fellow and a Society of Scholars. He works at the intersection of media theory, history of technology and design, and environmental humanities.
In 2024-25 academic year, he is a visiting graduate scholar at Johns Hopkins University in history of science and technology, and a pre-doctoral fellow in art and architectural history at Max Planck Institute, KHI (Art History Institute Florence). His work has been supported by Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (Intersecting Energy Culture Award, 2023), Linda Hall Library in Science, Engineering and Technology (2023-24 Fellow), University of Stavanger, Norway (2022 Greenhouse Green Transition Fellow), the Simpson Center for Humanities (2021-22 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow), Boeing/ Fritz International Research (2022 Fellow), China Studies Program Fellowship (2024) at UW, and Parsons School of Design (Dean's Scholarship, 2016-18).
His writings appeared in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Journal of Environmental Media, NiCHE, and The Lab Book (entry for the "Cultural Techniques" chapter), among others. He is also a guest co-editor of the special issue “Energy and Media” for the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.