Matthew Chin

Matthew Chin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia. A scholar at the intersection of Caribbean Studies, Queer Studies, and Anthropology, his research examines feminist and queer histories of race, reparations for colonial violence, and transnational Asian-Caribbean geographies.

• Recipient of Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award
• Winner of the John Boswell Prize (LGBTQ+ History Association)

His first book, Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica (2024), explores how gender and sexuality intersect with demands for reparations in the Caribbean. His second project traces the construction of Asian-Caribbean geographies across the 19th-21st centuries, analyzing imperial dynamics shaping contemporary anxieties about China's influence in the Caribbean.

Matthew’s research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and supported by fellowships at Columbia University, the University of Kent, and the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies. He has also developed a digital archive of Jamaica’s Gay Freedom Movement materials.