Anne S. Chao received her M. A. and Ph.D. from the Rice University Department of History (2005 and 2009), under the direction of Professor Richard J. Smith. Her research interests include using computational techniques to do network analysis, text-mining and archival research on historical figures in the late Qing, early Republican China, as well as in the immigration history of Asian Americans to the south.

Dr. Chao, an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Arts, has taught courses and mentored students in the Department of History. Currently she is Program Manager of the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA), which focuses on the immigration experience of Asian Americans to Houston. Dr. Chao is a College Associate and a Divisional Advisor to undeclared humanities and arts students at Lovett College. She is a member of the advisory boards of the School of Humanities and Arts, the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Chao Center for Asian Studies, the Kinder Institute and the Shepherd School of Music, and a member of the Patron Group of the Moody Center for the Arts.