Erika Lee

Erika Lee
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. 1 2 "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". Amazon. Retrieved 6 September 2015.


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