Gina Anne Tam, Ph.D.

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.