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Past Member

Jennifer Lee

Robbert Dijkgraaf Member

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Sociology
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Since the wake of the COVID-19, 1 in 6 Asian Americans has experienced a hate incident. At IAS, Lee will write a book in which she links the present to the past, showing how this moment of anti-Asian racism reflects a legacy of xenophobia, misogyny & exclusion that is embedded in our laws, institutions, and history of science & medicine.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

Columbia University
Ph.D.
1998

Honors

2022
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2021
Distinguished Contribution to the Field, American Sociological Association's Asia and Asian American Section
2015
Sociological Research Association
2011-12
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
2008
Fulbright Scholar to Japan
2006-07
Fellow, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago
2002-03
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Appointments

Columbia University
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences