Speaker: Dr. Erika Lee J91
One of the nation’s leading immigration and Asian American historians, Erika Lee teaches American history at the University of Minnesota, where she is a Regents Professor and Director of the Immigration History Research Center. The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, Lee is the recipient of multiple fellowships and awards, including the Carnegie Fellowship, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is an active public intellectual, serves as the Vice President of the Organization of American Historians, and is the author of four award-winning books, including At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (co-authored with Judy Yung, Oxford University Press, 2010), and The Making of Asian America: A History (Simon & Schuster, 2015; Chinese version, 2019.)
Sponsored by the Bridging Differences Initiative, the Office of the Provost, Office of the President, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion