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 four books on American history, which have 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] The Making of Asian America: A History (2016) won the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association [4] America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019) won the 2020 American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation.[5][6]

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.
  • — (2016). 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

Awards
  • 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship[7]
  • 2018 Distinguished Historian Award from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era[7]
  • 2018 Distinguished Lecturer in the Organization of American Historians[7]

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. ""2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winners Selected"". Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. 1/12/2016. Retrieved 11/20/20. Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)
  5. Lee, Erika (2019). America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. Basic Books. ISBN 1541672607.
  6. "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-first Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. 2020-09-14. p. 2.
  7. "Erika Lee". Faculty Profile. University of Minnesota. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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