Alexander Jin is a historian of gender, sexuality and Asian America and is Mellon Teaching Fellow in History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Examples of their work can be found in Gender & History, Pacific Historical Review, Amerasia, and forthcoming in Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Their in-progress book, "Heathen Intimacy: Chinese Migrants and Criminal Sexualities in Turn of the Century California," explores the varied gender and sexual histories of Chinese Californians between the 1850s and early twentieth century.

Jin's work has been generously supported by fellowships from The Huntington Library, The Bancroft Library, and The Effron Center for the Study of America. Jin completed a PhD in history and graduate certificate in gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University and comes to Dartmouth by way of Bennington College.