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Professor Hershatter Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

May 29, 2007

History professor Gail Hershatter has been selected to receive a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship award. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

An expert on Chinese history, Hershatter’s research since 1996 has centered on the investigation of rural Chinese women during the period of early socialism. She will use the fellowship, in conjunction with an award from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, to write a book based on this research entitled "The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past."

Read more about Professor Hershatter and her work, here.

This selection written by Scott Rapport for UCSC Currents, April 19th, 2007. The full article may be viewed, here.