Past Member

Tamara Chin

Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Comparative Literature
From
Tamara Chin’s research approaches the Silk Road as a modern idea—one of several conceptual frameworks and rhetorical tropes of China’s interconnected antiquity that emerged during the century spanning new imperialism and the Cold War, from ca. 1870 to ca. 1970.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
2005

Honors

2019-2020
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
2016
American Comparative Literature Association Harry Levin Prize

Appointments

Brown University
2014
Associate Professor
University of Chicago
2006–2013
Assistant Professor