Erika Lee

Erika Lee is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota and an award-winning non-fiction writer.[1]

Erika Lee
Alma materTufts University,
University of California, Berkeley
Genresnonfiction; history
Notable awardsTheodore Saloutos,
Caughey Prize in Western History

Life

The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, she grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2]

Lee graduated in history at Tufts University in 1991 before continuing her studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned an M.A. in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1998.[3] She has authored two books on American history, both of which received several awards. At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (2003) won the 2003 Theodore Saloutos prize for the best book in immigration studies and the 2003 History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010) received the Caughey Prize in Western History from the Western History Association as well as the 2010 Adult Non-Fiction Award in Asian Pacific American Literature from the American Library Association.[1]

Published works

Books
  • Lee, Erika (2003). At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807827758.
  • —; Yung, Judy (2010). Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199734085.
  • — (2015). The Making of Asian America: A History. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1476739403.
  • — (2019). America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-1541672604.

Contributions
  • Lee, Erika (2004). "Chapter 6: American Gatekeeping: Race and Immigration Law in the Twentieth Century". In Foner, Nancy; Fredrickson, George M. (eds.). Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immgiration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. pp. 119–144. ISBN 978-0871542595. JSTOR 10.7758/9781610442114.
  • — (2010). "Chapter 9: The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping". In Yu-Wen Shen Wu, Jean; Chen, Thomas (eds.). Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. pp. 143–167. ISBN 978-0813545745. JSTOR j.ctt1bmzn3s.
  • — (2012). "Chapter 11: The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru: A Transnational History of Japanese Exclusion, 1920s–World War II". In Fojas, Camilla; Guevarra, Rudy P. (eds.). Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 315–358. ISBN 978-0803237957. JSTOR j.ctt1ddr6mv.

Journal articles
  • Lee, Erika (1999). "Immigrants and Immigration Law: A State of the Field Assessment". Journal of American Ethnic History. 18 (4): 85–114. JSTOR 27502472.
  • — (2002). "The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924". Journal of American Ethnic History. 21 (3): 36–62. JSTOR 27502847.
  • — (2002). "Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882-1924". The Journal of American History. 89 (1): 54–86. doi:10.2307/2700784. JSTOR 2700784.
  • — (2007). "he "Yellow Peril" and Asian Exclusion in the Americas". Pacific Historical Review. 76 (4): 537–562. doi:10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.537. JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.537. S2CID 145388977.
  • — (2015). "A Part and Apart: Asian American and Immigration History". Journal of American Ethnic History. 34 (4): 28–42. doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.34.4.0028. JSTOR 10.5406/jamerethnhist.34.4.0028.
  • —; Gabaccia, Donna (2017). "The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia". Journal of American Ethnic History. 37 (1): 70–77. doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070. JSTOR 10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070.

Awards
  • 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship[4]
  • 2018 Distinguished Historian Award from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era[4]
  • 2018 Distinguished Lecturer in the Organization of American Historians[4]

References
  1. "Monday, October 29, 2012". Angel Island: Local, National, and Transnational Immigration Histories: Professor Erika Lee (University of Minnesota). Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. "Erika Lee". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  3. "Faculty: Erika Lee". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  4. "Erika Lee". Faculty Profile. University of Minnesota. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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