Author and professor Erika Lee will join Harvard University’s developing ethnic studies program.
The Harvard Crimson reports that Lee is the second ethnic studies professor the university has hired as part of a cluster hire initiative by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She will join Harvard as a Bae Family Professor of History and as a professor at Radcliffe on July 1, 2023.
“I am incredibly honored to join Harvard’s amazing History Department and to help build Asian American and Ethnic Studies at the university,” Lee wrote in a statement, according to The Harvard Crimson. “I know that this is the result of decades of work by students, alumni, and faculty and I look forward to contributing to their efforts.”
Lee is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota. According to The Harvard Gazette, she is the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants. She received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University. A Bay Area native, she earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.
The professor is well-known for her expertise in Asian American history. She is the author of “The Making of Asian America: A History,” as well as three other books about Asian American history and immigration.
“Erika Lee is a trailing blazing historian of the Asian American experience. There is no voice of greater authority in this domain. Moreover, she brings a keen and critical eye to recent anti-Asian, Anti-immigrant and Xenophobic movements in the U.S.,” Social Science Dean Lawrence D. Bobo told The Harvard Gazette.
“She is a truly powerful writer and voice, with wide influence across the social sciences and humanities. Erika Lee is exactly the sort of eminent and impactful scholar Dean Gay had hoped to attract with the Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Migration cluster hire,” he continued.
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