Tani Barlow is a scholar of feminism, postcoloniality, and history in Asia and most specifically in China. She is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universities ...

. Formerly, Barlow was a professor of history and women studies at the

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. She is known for her research on Chinese feminism.

Education

*1985 Ph.D. History,

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, *1979 M.A. History, University of California, Davis *1975 B.A. History and Chinese language dual degree,

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Career

Shanghai Teachers University, lecturer in American culture, 1981–82; University of Missouri-Columbia, assistant professor of history, 1985–90, associate professor of history, 1990–92; San Francisco State University, associate professor, 1992–94; University of Washington, Women Studies, associate professor, 1994–97, professor, 1997-2008, professor of history, 2004–08; Rice University, professor of history, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Studies, Chao Center for Asian Studies, director, 2008-2019. George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities,

Awards

Barlow edits the journal ''positions: east asia cultures critique'',. for which she received the 1995 Best New Journal Award, the 2009 Best Special Issue Award and the 2011 Best Special Issue Award from The Council of Editors of Learned Journals of the Modern Language Association.

Publications

*Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum (eds.)
The Modern Girl Around the World
', Durham: Duke University Press, 2008 *Tani Barlow,
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
', Durham: Duke University Press, 2004 *Tani Barlow (ed.)
New Asian Marxisms
', Durham: Duke University Press, 1997 *Tani Barlow (ed.),
Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia
', Durham: Duke University Press, 1997 *Tani Barlow (ed.),
Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism
', Durham: Duke University Press, 1994 *Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, ''Body, Subject, and Power in China'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Video

A lecture at Duke University

Notes

External links

Rice University, Department of History website
- Includes Barlow's Curriculum Vitae, Courses, and Selected Papers.
Google scholar profile

Tani Barlow Papers
- Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University {{DEFAULTSORT:Barlow, Tani E. Rice University faculty University of Washington faculty University of California, Davis alumni San Francisco State University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Gender studies academics American women historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women