Genevieve Ching-wen Lee '96 Memorial Lecture

The Genevieve Ching-wen Lee '96 Memorial Fund was established in 1995, to support the development of multi-disciplinary Asian American studies. One of the benefits of the Fund is an annual lecture, by distinguished scholars in the field.

2018: Deborah Wong, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Riverside

Women of Color Creating Change: Taiko, Fandang Obon, and Asian American Arts Activism

2017: Elena Creef, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

Traveling with Red Warriors, Prayer Riders, and Water Protectors: An Ethnography (on horseback) of the Annual Chief Big Foot Ride to Wounded Knee, South Dakota

2016: Sameer Pandya, Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Blind Writer: Stories and a Novella

2015: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Professor of Art, University of Rhode Island

Living Between Cultures

2014: Karin Chien, Independent Film Producer

Today's Content, Tomorrow's Audience: The Present/Future of Asian American Cultural Production

2013: Sarita See, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

Accumulating the Primitive: Filipino American Art In and Out of the Imperial Museum

2012: Helen Gym, Philadelphia City councilperson and Asian-American activist

Beyond Black, White and Polka Dot: Asian America and the Struggle for Justice

2011: Sucheta Mazumdar, Professor of History, Duke University

A History of One's Own: Asian America in the Global Age

2010: Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Slaying the Dragon Reloaded: Asian American Women and Visual Media Today

2009: Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of American Studies and East Asian Studies, University of Delaware

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

2008: Lok Siu, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University

Hemispheric Asian America: Rethinking Migration, Sociality, and Racialization

2007: Mooh Ho Jung, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington

Racial Divisions, Common Struggles: Asian & African Americans in the Age of Emancipation

2005: Rinku Sen, Publisher of ColorLines magazine and Communications Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC)

The In Between World of Asian Americans: Finding Our Place in America's Racial Hierarchy

2004: K. Scott Wong, Associate Professor of History and Chair of American Studies, Williams College

The Good Asian in the Good War 

2003: Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University

How the Chinese Family Made History: Four Centuries of Emigration

2002: Professor Frank H. Wu, Howard University School of Law

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

2001: Nayan Bhupendra Shah '88, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1939 (2001).

2000: Pratibha Parmar, Documentary Filmmaker, Activist and Writer

A panel featuring prominent young scholars who all studied with Sau-ling Wong at UC Berkeley: Mark Chiang, University of Pennsylvania, Department of English and Asian American Studies; Daniel Kim, Brown University, Department of English; and Gloria Chun, Bard College, Director of the Multi-Ethnic Studies Program.

1999: Yen-le Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Former president of the Association of Asian American Studies, Professor Espiritu is a much respected sociologist and prolific author. Her publications include: Asian American panethnicity: bridging institutions and identities (1992); Filipino American Lives (1995); Asian American women and men: labor, laws and love (1997).

1998: Cynthia Sau-ling Wong, Professor of Asian American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

But What on Earth is an Asian American? - Culture, Class, and Invented Traditions in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land

1998: Roundtable: Asian American Studies: New Directions, New Debates

A panel featuring prominent young scholars who all studied with Sau-ling Wong at UC Berkeley: Mark Chiang, University of Pennsylvania, Department of English and Asian American Studies; Daniel Kim, Brown University, Department of English; and Gloria Chun, Bard College, Director of the Multi-Ethnic Studies Program.

1997: Sucheng Chan '63, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Swarthmore student Sucheng Chan went on to help create the field of Asian American Studies, as well as one of the first academic departments in North America dedicated to the field. An extremely prolific scholar, she is the author or editor of nine books, and author of dozens of articles on the social history of Asian diaspora communities in California.

1996: L. Ling-chi Wang, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Overrepresentation and Underreprestantaion: Issues and Concerns of Asian Americans in Higher Education