Gail Hershatter

Gail Hershatter is an American historian of Modern China who holds the Distinguished Professor of History chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[1] She previously taught in the history department at Williams College.^[2]

She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2010^[3] and subsequently elected president the following year.^[4] She was an assistant director for the documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace.^[5]

Her research interests include modern Chinese women's history and labor studies.^[6] Her 2011 monograph, The Gender of Memory, uses the lens of rural women in Shaanxi Province, China, to examine revolutionary China in the 1950s and 1960s.^[7]

Awards

• 1997 1997 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History, American Historical Association
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
• 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences ^[8]

Works

• The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past, University of California Press, 2011, ISBN 9780520267701
• The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949, Stanford University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-8047-2216-2
• Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-520-20438-6
• Women in China's long twentieth century, University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-09856-5
• Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's, Authors Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8047-1431-0
• Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain, Editor Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8047-2509-5
• Guide to Women's Studies in China, editor Gail Hershatter, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1998, ISBN 9781557290632
• Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-674-25332-2.

References

1. http://history.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=14
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xU5UrgIfE_cC&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8&dq=williams+college
3. http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3522
4. http://history.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/hershatter-aas.html
5. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/202021/Gail-Hershatter
6. http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=gbhers
7. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267701
8. New Academy Members

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