As was announced on 4/1 (Tufts Now), Dr. Erika Lee J91 will return to Tufts as the 2022 Commencement speaker. A preeminent scholar of U.S. immigration and the Asian American experience, Dr. Lee's books have won numerous awards. Visit her website for a fuller picture of her scholarship & career.
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
New York: Basic Books, 2019
The Making of Asian America: A History
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010
Erika Lee's chapter "The Chinese are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping."