Yi Ning Chang is a political theorist with research interests in twentieth-century and postcolonial political thought. She specializes in mid-twentieth-century Southeast Asia; race and ethnicity; international law and politics in the global cold war; and theories of capitalism and development. Her dissertation offers a political theory of decolonization that begins in 1950s–60s Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on the political thought and action of postcolonial politicians in Malaya/Singapore and Indonesia. She received her B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in 2020 and held the Harold Laski Fellowship at Harvard in 2020–2021. At Harvard, she is a Graduate Student Associate at the Asia Center and a Graduate Student Affiliate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.