Gina Anne Tam, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor , History
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Gina Anne Tam is an associate professor of history and co-chair of Women and Gender Studies, a former National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectual Fellow, and a former Wilson China Center Fellow. Her interest, at its core, is how the identities we ascribe to ourselves or are ascribed to us-- including gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class-- translate into access or the removal of access to cultural, political, and material power. Her first book, Dialect and Nationalism in China, explores the relationship between language and national identity twentieth-century China. She is currently writing a history of Hong Kong's grassroots feminist movement. She is an Italian-American originally from Lakewood, Colorado.
- Stanford University, Ph.D.
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
- Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 (Cambridge, 2020) (Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best First Book Prize)
- "Historical Memory in Hong Kong: Agency Under the Shadow of Empires," Sage Handbook on Interpreting Chinese History (Sage: 2025)
- Decolonizing Chinese History: A Roundtable (Editor and Author). The Historical Journal, 67 (1), 2024
- “Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–1949" Comparative Studies in Society and History, 65 (1), 2022 (Shortlisted for Routledge Area Studies Interdisciplinarity Award)
- "China's Language Police: Why Beijing Seeks to Extend the Hegemony of Mandarin" Foreign Affairs, 2023
- Modern China
- Hong Kong
- Nationalism
- Identity
- Gender Studies
- Language
- History of China to 1800
- Modern East Asia
- Gender in China
- Race and Ethnicity in East Asia
- Global China: A History of Migration
- Global Food History
- Wilson Center China Fellowship (2022-2023)
- National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectual Program Fellowship (2021-2023)
- Trinity University Early Career Distinguished Award in Teaching and Research (2021)
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania Young Alumni Achievement Award (2019)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Grant (2013-2014)
- Blakemore Foundation Fellowship (2011-2012)
- History
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Trinity Celebrates Women’s History Month 2024
Friday, March 01, 2024Women’s and Gender Studies program offers an engaging lineup of events
Gina Tam Named Chinese Public Intellectual Fellow
Wednesday, December 15, 2021History professor selected as one of 20 prominent Chinese specialists in the country
Social Scholars Scour Statistics
Monday, August 09, 2021More than 50 Tiger faculty dive into Summer 2021 research projects and 2021-22 academic leaves
A World of Change
Thursday, May 30, 2019Trinity supports more than 60 faculty research projects for the 2019-20 academic year