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Erika Lee

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

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Erika Lee Biography

Erika Lee is a Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, she is Vice President of the Organization of American Historians and the author of award-winning books including At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (co-authored with Judy Yung, Oxford University Press, 2010), and The Making of Asian America: A History (Simon & Schuster, 2015, 2nd ed., 2016, Chinese version, 2019). Her recently-published America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. Called “unflinching and powerful” by Carol Anderson (author of White Rage) and “essential reading” by Ibram X. Kendi (author of How to Be an Antiracist), America for Americans won the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature ,and the Richard Frisbie Honored Book Award for Nonfiction. It was also a finalist for the Ralph Waldo Emerson award and the Minnesota Nonfiction Book Award and was named to best books lists by Time, USA Today, and Ms. Magazine. It was highlighted by the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the New York Public Library as one of the most important books illuminating the Trump era and informing essential issues in the 2020 election. It has been excerpted in The Atlantic and profiled in The New Yorker. Op-eds based on the book appeared in Time and the Washington Post.

She has been awarded numerous national and university fellowships and awards for her research, teaching, and leadership, including the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the 2017 Dean's Medal and the Arthur Red Motley Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Liberal Arts, the 2016 Pioneer Award from OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates, and the 2015 Immigrant Heritage Award from the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. She is an active public scholar, appears regularly in the media, and has been an invited speaker at universities, historical societies, and community organizations around the U.S. and internationally.

At the Immigration History Research Center, Lee has helped to pioneer new ways of merging immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Immigrant Stories Project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve, and share their experiences with a new multi-lingual digital story-telling website (immigrantstories.umn.edu) and archive. She also founded and directs the Immigrants in COVID America project, documenting the impact of the pandemic on immigrants and refugees (https://immigrantcovid.umn.edu/) and founded and co-organized the #ImmigrationSyllabus project (www.immigrationsyllabus.umn.edu), a digital educational resource offering historical perspectives to contemporary immigration debates.

Erika Lee Videos

  • Historian Erika Lee & activist Helen Zia on rise in anti-Asian violence ...
    During the coronavirus pandemic, Asian Americans have experienced a sharp increase in racist verbal abuse and physical attacks. From the ...
  • Xenophobia in America: How we got here and what's at stake | Erika ...
    America is called a "nation of immigrants," but it is also a nation of xenophobia. Historian Erika Lee explores the deep roots of xenophobia in ...
  • Full Frame: Race and Immigration in the U.S. with Erika Lee - YouTube
    The coronavirus has led to increased reports of harassment against Asian- Americans. This kind of discrimination has long been part of U.S. ...

Erika Lee Books

  • America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
    America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
  • The Making of Asian America: A History
    The Making of Asian America: A History
  • Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
    Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
  • At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
    At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

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Erika Lee is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Erika Lee for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Erika Lee generally travels from Minneapolis, MN, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Laura Ling, Amanda Nguyen, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Simon Tam and Helen Zia. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Erika Lee for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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