Alexander Jin will continue work on their in-progress book-manuscript, “Heathen Intimacy: Chinese Migrants and Criminal Sexualities in Turn of the Century California,” which explores the varied gender and sexual histories of Chinese Californians between the 1850s and early twentieth century. They are also working on a second project examining the entanglements between the anti-Chinese movement, the suffrage movement, and US empire in the American West. 

Alexander Jin is a historian of gender, sexuality, and Asian America and is a visiting assistant professor in history at Bennington College. Examples of their work can be found in the Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and Amerasia (forthcoming). Jin’s work has been generously supported by fellowships from The Huntington Library, the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, and the Effron Center for the Study of America. Jin completed a PhD in history and graduate certificate in gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University.