Gail Hershatter is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

of Modern China who holds the Distinguished Professor of History chair at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

. She previously taught in the history department at

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

. She graduated from

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with a B.A., from

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with a M.A., and from

with a Ph.D. She was elected vice-president of the

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in 2010 and subsequently elected president the following year. She was an assistant director for the documentary ''The Gate of Heavenly Peace''. Her research interests include modern Chinese women's history and labor studies. Her 2011 monograph, ''The Gender of Memory'', uses the lens of rural women in

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Province, China, to examine revolutionary China in the 1950s and 1960s.

Awards

* 1997

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Memorial Prize in Women's History,

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* 2007

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 2015

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New Academy Members
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Works

*
Women and China's Revolutions
', Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, *
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past
', University of California Press, 2011,
''The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949''
Stanford University Press, 1986,
''Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai''
University of California Press, 1997,
''Women in China's long twentieth century''
University of California Press, 2007,
''Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's''
Authors Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1988,
''Remapping China: fissures in historical terrain''
Editor Gail Hershatter, Stanford University Press, 1996, * ''Guide to Women's Studies in China'', editor Gail Hershatter, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, 1998,
''Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State''
Editor Christina K. Gilmartin, Harvard University Press, 1994, .

References

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