Shirley Jennifer Lim

Shirley Jennifer Lim is the go-to Anna May Wong expert and professor of history and affiliate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, and Africana Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. She is the author of A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930–1960 and Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern, which was a finalist for the Organization of American Historians’ Mary Nickliss Prize. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and NPR’s Morning Edition, and news programs such as C-NBC, Inside Edition, and CBS-2 News at 9 A.M. She has discussed Anna May Wong on Turner Classic Movies, two PBS documentaries (Asian Americans and Unladylike 2020), BBC 4 (Screenshots), and podcasts like History This Week (History Channel) and Mobituaries.