# Erika Lee
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{{short description|American historian}}
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| name = Erika Lee
| image = Erika Lee 2024 Texas Book Festival.jpg
| caption = Lee at the 2024 Texas Book Festival
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| education = [Tufts University](/source/Tufts_University) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))
[University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) ([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts), PhD)
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| awards = [Caughey Western History Association Prize](/source/Caughey_Western_History_Association_Prize)
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'''Erika Lee''' is a historian and author. She is currently the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), a position she began in July 2023.[{{Cite web |title=About Erika – ERIKA LEE |url=http://www.erikalee.org/about-erika/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |language=en-US}}][{{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}}] 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](/source/Immigration_History_Research_Center) at the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota).[{{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 }}]
==Early life and education==
Lee is the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, growing up in the [San Francisco Bay Area](/source/San_Francisco_Bay_Area).[{{cite web |title=Erika Lee |url=http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Erika-Lee/411723294 |access-date=September 6, 2015 |publisher=Simon & Schuster}}] Lee attended [Tufts University](/source/Tufts_University) before continuing her studies at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley), where she earned an M.A. in 1993 and a PhD in 1998.'''[{{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}}]'''
== 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).[{{Cite web |title=Erika Lee {{!}} University Awards & Honors |url=https://uawards.umn.edu/erika-lee |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=uawards.umn.edu}}]
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.[{{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}}]
Recently, Erika Lee has accepted the position of the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History at Harvard University in 2023.[{{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}}]
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.[{{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}}][{{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}}]
===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[{{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}}]
* 2016 [Asian Pacific American Librarians Association](/source/Asian_Pacific_American_Librarians_Association) Awards for ''The Making of Asian America: a History''[{{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](/source/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}}]
* 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship[{{cite web |title=Erika Lee |url=https://uawards.umn.edu/erika-lee |website=Faculty Profile |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=January 13, 2020}}]
* 2018 Distinguished Historian Award from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era[
* 2018 Distinguished Lecturer in the Organization of American Historians][
* 2019 Honoree of the Richard Frisbie Award from the Society of Midland Authors.][{{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}}]
* 2020 [American Book Awards](/source/American_Book_Awards)[{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/arts-and-entertainment-general-news-8c4cb4c7193622a84620f65a158cdf3b |title= George Takei, Ocean Vuong win American Book Awards |work= [Associated Press](/source/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}}]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://uawards.umn.edu/erika-lee Faculty Page – University of Minnesota]
*[http://www.erikalee.org/ Erika Lee Homepage]
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