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 Mellon Teaching Fellow in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Examples of their work can be found in Gender & History, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and Amerasia. Jin’s work has been generously supported by fellowships from The Huntington Library, Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, and Effron Center for the Study of America. Jin completed a PhD in history and graduate certificate in gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University.