Elizabeth Lew-Williams is a historian and professor of Asian American history at Princeton University, the first ever appointed by the school.[1] Her research focuses on Asian American studies, migration, ethnic studies, violence, and the history of the U.S. West.[2]
Biography
editLew-Williams received a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2010. Her dissertation was titled The Chinese Must Go: Immigration, Deportation, and Violence in the American West, 1882-1892.[3]
In 2012, Lew-Williams became a faculty fellow at Northwestern University.[3] She is the author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in America.[4]
Recognition
editIn 2026, Lew-Williams won the Bancroft Prize for John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law.[5]
References
edit- ↑ "Princeton hires first professor of Asian-American history - the Daily Princetonian". Archived from the original on May 7, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Beth Lew-Williams | Department of History". history.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
- 1 2 "Elizabeth Lew-Williams F'12, F'10". www.acls.org. Archived from the original on May 21, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ↑ "The Chinese Must Go — Beth Lew-Williams | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
- ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 12, 2026). "Histories of Native American Treaties and Anti-Chinese Violence Win Bancroft Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
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