Erika Lee
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| Alma mater |
Tufts University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Genres | fiction; history |
| Notable awards |
Theodore Saloutos, Caughey Prize in Western History |
Erika Lee is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair and Director of the Immigration History Center at the University of Minnesota and an award-winning non-fiction writer.[1]
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]
Her most recent work, The Making of Asian America: A History, was published in September 2015.[4]
References
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- 1 2 "Monday, October 29, 2012:". Angel Island: Local, National, and Transnational Immigration Histories: Professor Erika Lee (University of Minnesota). Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ "Erika Lee". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ "Faculty: Erika Lee". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ "Erika Lee". Amazon. Retrieved 6 September 2015.