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 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History, American Historical Association
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
- 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences[8]
Works
- Women and China's Revolutions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4422-1570-2
- The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past, University of California Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-26770-1
- 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 978-1-55729-063-2
- Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State, Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-674-25332-2.
References
- ^ "UC Santa Cruz - Department of History - Directory - Gail B. Hershatter". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
- ^ Hershatter, Gail (August 1993). The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804722162.
- ^ "Gail Hershatter elected vice-president of Association for Asian Studies". UC Santa Cruz News.
- ^ "Gail Hershatter elected President of the Association of Asian Studies". Archived from the original on 2013-08-22. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
- ^ MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES (2012). "Movies". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012.
- ^ "Gail Hershatter".
- ^ The Gender of Memory. University of California Press.
- ^ New Academy Members
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- Arthur W. Hummel Sr. (1948)
- Charles S. Gardner (1949)
- Harold S. Quigley (1950)
- Robert B. Hall (1951)
- Rupert Emerson (1952)
- Felix M. Keesing (1953)
- Kenneth Scott Latourette (1954)
- Edwin O. Reischauer (1955)
- L. Carrington Goodrich (1956)
- Hugh Borton (1957)
- John K. Fairbank (1958)
- George B. Cressey (1959)
- W. Norman Brown (1960)
- Lauriston Sharp (1961)
- Earl H. Pritchard (1962)
- William W. Lockwood (1963)
- Arthur F. Wright (1964)
- Knight Biggerstaff (1965)
- Karl J. Pelzer (1966)
- John Whitney Hall (1967)
- Holden Furber (1968)
- Wm. Theodore de Bary (1969)
- Cora Du Bois (1970)
- C. Martin Wilbur (1971)
- Robert E. Ward (1972)
- George McTurnan Kahin (1973)
- Richard D. Lambert (1974)
- Ping-ti Ho (1975)
- Marius B. Jansen (1976)
- John M. Echols (1977)
- Richard L. Park (1978)
- Benjamin I. Schwartz (1979)
- Eleanor Jorden (1980)
- Paul Wheatley (1981)
- Ainslie Embree (1982)
- G. William Skinner (1983)
- James William Morley (1984)
- Frank H. Golay (1985)
- Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (1986)
- Rhoads Murphey (1987)
- Robert J. Smith (1988)
- Stanley J. Tambiah (1989)
- Barbara Stoler Miller (1990)
- Albert Feuerwerker (1991)
- Tetsuo Najita (1992)
- David K. Wyatt (1993)
- Barbara D. Metcalf (1994)
- Evelyn Rawski (1995)
- Carol Gluck (1996)
- James Scott (1997)
- Wendy Doniger (1998)
- Susan L. Mann (1999)
- Peter Duus (2000)
- Charles F. Keyes (2001)
- David Ludden (2002)
- James L. Watson (2003)
- Mary Elizabeth Berry (2004)
- Barbara Watson Andaya (2005)
- Anand Yang (2006)
- Elizabeth J. Perry (2007)
- Robert Buswell Jr. (2008)
- Robert W. Hefner (2009)
- K. Sivaramakrishnan (2010)
- Gail Hershatter (2011)
- Theodore C. Bestor (2012)
- Thongchai Winichakul (2013)
- Mrinalini Sinha (2014)
- Timothy Brook (2015)
- Laurel Kendall (2016)
- Katherine Bowie (2017)
- Anne Feldhaus (2018)
- Prasenjit Duara (2019)
- Christine Yano (2020)
- Hy Van Luong (2021)
- Kamran Asdar Ali (2022)
- Jean Oi (2023)
- Hyaeweol Choi (2024)