Tani E. Barlow

Tani Barlow is an American historian. She is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Formerly, Barlow was a professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington and the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is known for her research on feminism in China.

Career[edit]

Barlow was professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington. She researched modern China with a particular focus on feminism in China.^[1][2] She received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 1995 for her journal Positions: Asia critique.^[1] In 2008, she published a co-edited volume entitled The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization on Duke University Press.^[3]

She is currently the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at Rice University.^[4] In 2021, Barlow published In The Event of Women with Duke University Press.^[5]

Selected works[edit]

• Tani Barlow, In The Event of Women Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
• Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum (eds.) The Modern Girl Around the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
• Tani Barlow (ed.), New Asian Marxisms, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997
• Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, Body, Subject, and Power in China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

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External links[edit]

• Google scholar profile
• Tani Barlow Papers – Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University