James Lin
Assistant Professor, Associate Chair - Taiwan Studies Program
Contact
- jyslin@uw.edu
- Thomson Hall 226
About
Prof. Lin is accepting new MA students but is not accepting PhD students for the 2025-2026 academic year
James Lin is a historian of Taiwan and its interactions with the world in the 20th century. His book, “In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan” (University of California Press 2025), examines rural reform and agricultural science in China and Taiwan from the early 20th century through the postwar era, then its subsequent re-imagining during Taiwanese development missions to Africa, Asia, and Latin America from the 1950s onward.
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, CA, Ph.D. in History, 2017
- Columbia University - New York, NY, M.A., History, 2010
- University of California, Berkeley, CA, B.A., History, with High Honors, 2007
