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.