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Lisa Mar specializes in modern Canadian and U.S. immigration and ethnic history, especially the experiences of Asian Canadians and Asian Americans. Her research focuses on Chinese Canadians and Chinese Americans, exploring their relations with neighbors and connections in a global and local multicultural context in Canada. Mar's book, 'Brokering Belonging: Chinese Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945' (Oxford University Press, 2010), exemplifies her approach by tracing the political struggles of community leaders to represent the concerns of Chinese Canadians within Canadian institutions. This work highlights how Canada is deeply embedded in the Pacific World, linking Canada with China, the United States, and the British Empire. Mar’s innovative re-imagining of early Chinese Canadians as influential political actors earned her the Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award in 2011, as well as an Honorable Mention for the Albert B. Corey Prize from the American Historical Association and Canadian Historical Association in 2011. She was also nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction in 2010. Currently, Mar is working on book projects that include a historical study of ethnic Chinese and Confucianism in Canada and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, and a comparative history of Chinese Canada and the United States during World War II.
Department of Sociology