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Shelley Lee is the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at Brown University, with an affiliation in Urban Studies. Prior to joining Brown, she was the chair of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. Her research and teaching focus on the histories of immigration, race relations, Asian Americans, and U.S. cities in the twentieth century. Lee has published articles in notable journals such as Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Western Historical Quarterly. She is the author of several books, including 'Koreatown, Los Angeles: Race, Immigration, American Dream' (Stanford University Press, 2022), 'New History of Asian America' (Routledge, 2013), and 'Claiming Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle Japanese America' (Temple University Press, 2011). A revised edition of the 'New History of Asian America' is set to be published by Routledge in 2026. Currently, Lee is leading a project titled 'The Origins and Afterlives of Ethnic Studies' as part of the Humanities Initiative at the Cogut Institute, and she co-leads a working group on Asian Pacific American Diaspora Studies at Brown.
Department: Department of Economics