{{short description|American historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Erika Lee | image = Erika Lee 2024 Texas Book Festival.jpg | caption = Lee at the 2024 Texas Book Festival | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = Tufts University (BA)<br>University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) | genres = Nonfiction<br>History | awards = Caughey Western History Association Prize }} '''Erika Lee''' is a historian and author. She is currently the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History at Harvard University, a position she began in July 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Erika – ERIKA LEE |url=http://www.erikalee.org/about-erika/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-06 |title=Erika Lee to Join Harvard as Second Professor in Ethnic Studies Cluster Hire |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/6/Erika-Lee-ethnic-studies-hire/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> In addition, she is still active as an award-winning author, known for her non-fiction work upon the subjects of immigration and Asian American history in America'''.''' Previously, she was the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.<ref name=eventsb>{{cite web|url=https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/iseees?event_ID=59843 |title=Monday, October 29, 2012 |publisher=Angel Island: Local, National, and Transnational Immigration Histories: Professor Erika Lee (University of Minnesota) |access-date=September 6, 2015 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Early life and education== Lee is the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Erika Lee |url=http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Erika-Lee/411723294 |access-date=September 6, 2015 |publisher=Simon & Schuster}}</ref> Lee attended Tufts University before continuing her studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned an M.A. in 1993 and a PhD in 1998.'''<ref name=":03">{{Cite web |title=Erika Lee |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/erika-lee-radcliffe-professor |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University |language=en}}</ref>'''
== Career == Erika Lee served as the director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Minnesota throughout 2003-2006, in addition to directing the Asian Studies Program (2009-2012), and the Immigration History Research Center and Archives(2012).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Erika Lee {{!}} University Awards & Honors |url=https://uawards.umn.edu/erika-lee |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=uawards.umn.edu}}</ref>
During her time at the University of Minnesota, she has also founded, written and edited for multiple online humanities projects that include but are not limited to: Immigrants in COVID America, Immigrant Stories, and the #ImmigrationSyllabus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-02 |title=Erika Lee {{!}} American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/erika-lee |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.amacad.org |language=en}}</ref>
Recently, Erika Lee has accepted the position of the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History at Harvard University in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Erika Lee to Join Harvard as Second Professor in Ethnic Studies Cluster Hire {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/6/Erika-Lee-ethnic-studies-hire/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>
As an author, Erika Lee is noted to have written five non-fiction books, for which she has received multiple awards such as the American Book Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her most recent work is ''Made in Asian America: A History for Young People (2024),'' cowritten with Newberry-award winning author Christina Soontornvat.<ref name=":03"/>
==Published works== ===Books=== *{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943 |date=2003 |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=978-0807827758}} *{{cite book |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |last2=Yung |first2=Judy |title=Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0199734085}} *{{cite book|author-mask=1|last1=Lee|first1=Erika|title=The Making of Asian America: A History|date=2016|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-1476739403|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/makingofasianame00leee}} *{{cite book |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States |date=2019 |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1541672604}} *{{cite book |author-mask=1 | last1=Lee | first1=Erika | last2=Soontornvat | first2=Christina | title=Made in Asian America: a History for Young People | publisher=Quill Tree Books | date=2024-04-30 | isbn=978-0-06-324293-7}} <ref name="m895">{{cite web | last=Yoo | first=Paula | title=Book Review: 'Made in Asian America: A History for Young People,' by Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat | website=The New York Times | date=2024-04-26 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/books/review/erika-lee-christina-soontornvat-made-in-asian-america-a-history-for-young-people.html | access-date=2024-10-23}}</ref><ref name="p264">{{cite web | last=Skinner | first=Dan | title="Made in Asian America: A History for Young People" | website=Kansas Public Radio | date=2024-05-31 | url=https://kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/conversations/2024-05-31/made-in-asian-america-a-history-for-young-people | access-date=2024-10-23}}</ref>
===Contributions===
* Lee, Erika (2011). "Chapter 1: A Nation of Immigrants and a Gatekeeping Nation: American Immigration Law and Policy" In Reed, Ueda (eds.). ''A companion to American immigration''. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. {{ISBN|978-0-631-22843-1}}. *{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States |date=2004 |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn=978-0871542595 |editor1-last=Foner |editor1-first=Nancy |location=New York |pages=119–144 |chapter=Chapter 6: American Gatekeeping: Race and Immigration Law in the Twentieth Century |jstor=10.7758/9781610442114 |author-mask=1 |editor2-last=Fredrickson |editor2-first=George M.}} *{{cite book |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |editor1-last=Yu-Wen Shen Wu |editor1-first=Jean |editor2-last=Chen |editor2-first=Thomas |title=Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader |date=2010 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |location=New Brunswick |isbn=978-0813545745 |pages=143–167 |chapter=Chapter 9: The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping|jstor=j.ctt1bmzn3s }} *{{cite book |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |editor1-last=Fojas |editor1-first=Camilla |editor2-last=Guevarra |editor2-first=Rudy P. |title=Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific |date=2012 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=978-0803237957 |pages=315–358 |chapter=Chapter 11: The "Yellow Peril" in the United States and Peru: A Transnational History of Japanese Exclusion, 1920s–World War II|doi=10.2307/j.ctt1ddr6mv |jstor=j.ctt1ddr6mv |url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=unpresssamples }}
===Journal articles=== *{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=Immigrants and Immigration Law: A State of the Field Assessment |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |year=1999 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=85–114 |jstor=27502472 }} *{{cite journal |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882–1924 |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |year=2002 |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=36–62 |doi=10.2307/27502847 |jstor=27502847 |s2cid=157999472 }} *{{cite journal |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882–1924 |journal=The Journal of American History |year=2002 |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=54–86 |doi=10.2307/2700784 |jstor=2700784 }} *{{cite journal |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |s2cid=145388977 |title=The "Yellow Peril" and Asian Exclusion in the Americas |journal=Pacific Historical Review |year=2007 |volume=76 |issue=4 |pages=537–562 |doi=10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.537 |jstor=10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.537}} *{{cite journal |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |title=A Part and Apart: Asian American and Immigration History |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |year=2015 |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=28–42 |doi=10.5406/jamerethnhist.34.4.0028 |jstor=10.5406/jamerethnhist.34.4.0028 }} *{{cite journal |author-mask=1 |last1=Lee |first1=Erika |last2=Gabaccia |first2=Donna |title=The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |year=2017 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=70–77 |doi=10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070 |jstor=10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070 }}
==Awards== * 2015 Immigrant Heritage Award in Education from the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |title=Immigrant Heritage Awards {{!}} Angel Island Immigration Station - San Francisco |url=https://www.aiisf.org/immigrantheritage |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=AIISF |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2016 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Awards for ''The Making of Asian America: a History''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.apalaweb.org/awards/literature-awards/winners/2015-2016-awards-winners/ |title= 2015-2016 Awards Winners |work= Asian Pacific American Librarians Association |access-date= December 27, 2023 |archive-date= December 27, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231227183840/https://www.apalaweb.org/awards/literature-awards/winners/2015-2016-awards-winners/ |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship<ref name=fp>{{cite web |title=Erika Lee |url=https://uawards.umn.edu/erika-lee |website=Faculty Profile |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=January 13, 2020}}</ref> * 2018 Distinguished Historian Award from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<ref name=fp/> * 2018 Distinguished Lecturer in the Organization of American Historians<ref name=fp/> * 2019 Honoree of the Richard Frisbie Award from the Society of Midland Authors.<ref name=":03"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Loerzel |first=Robert |title=Midland Authors Announces Awards for 2019 Books {{!}} The Society of Midland Authors |url=https://midlandauthors.org/2020/05/midland-authors-announces-awards-for-2019-books/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2020 American Book Awards<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/arts-and-entertainment-general-news-8c4cb4c7193622a84620f65a158cdf3b |title= George Takei, Ocean Vuong win American Book Awards |work= Associated Press |date= September 15, 2020 |access-date= December 22, 2023 |archive-date= December 22, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231222130810/https://apnews.com/arts-and-entertainment-general-news-8c4cb4c7193622a84620f65a158cdf3b |url-status=live}}</ref>
==References== {{commons category|Erika Lee}} {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://uawards.umn.edu/erika-lee Faculty Page – University of Minnesota] *[http://www.erikalee.org/ Erika Lee Homepage]
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