Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Sandy Chang, Department of History, University of Florida

Sandy F. Chang is an assistant professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Florida. She specializes in Chinese migration, gender, and sexuality studies in Southeast Asia and the British Empire. Her scholarly areas of interest also include global China, inter-Asian connections, modern border regimes, women’s history, and comparative colonialisms. She is currently working on a book project, Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration to British Malaya, 1877-1941 that explores the border-crossing journeys of over a million Chinese women and their intimate lives across the Malay Peninsula. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

For questions, please contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.

Gatty Lectures will be held in-person at the Kahin Center, with the option to attend virtually as well. To attend virtually, please register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOuhrDkpHNx7g2ky3ZfuJ_N1ej….

Beverages will be served outside before the talk, and in accordance with current Cornell guidance we will be wearing masks indoors. Feel free to bring your own brownbag lunch and eat outside with us before the talk.