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.Life
The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, she grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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. 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 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 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.Published works
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