AAAYA 2026 Virtual Lecture Series: Lecture 1

Echoes of Exclusion: Asian American History and Contemporary Immigration Justice A Webinar with Prof. Mary Liu

Mary Lui is Professor of American Studies and History and is affiliated with Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.  Her primary research interests include: Asian American history, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005).  Most recently, she is working on the history of Asian American scientists in the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the work and migration histories of physicists and mathematicians.  The book is currently under contract with the University of California Press.  

Moderator Carl Kubler (YC '10) is Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American histories at Carnegie Mellon University. His scholarship and teaching focus on how the forces…