Patricia Buckley Ebrey (born March 7, 1947) is an American art historian and sinologist specializing in cultural and gender issues during the Chinese Song Dynasty.
Upon receiving her PhD, Ebrey was hired as visiting assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
[1] Subsequently, in 1997, she accepted a Professor of History position at the University of Washington, from which she retired in July 2020.
[1][3] Ebrey's The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period received the 1995 Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
[3][4] She received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly distinction in 2013.