Mary Ting Yi Lui (born 1967) is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and head of Yale's Timothy Dwight College.Lui, Mary. "Mary Lui Yale University. Retrieved on 2 June 2016"New Timothy Dwight master named: historian Mary Lui", YaleNews, 14 April 2015. Retrieved on 2 June 2016. She is Yale's first tenured professor specializing in Asian American Studies and the first Asian American female to serve as head of a Yale residential college.Wang, Victor. "For diverse faculty, admin roles hinder teaching" Yale Daily News, 4 March 2016. Retrieved on 2 June 2016.Wang, Monica. "At AACC, students discuss diversity", Yale Daily News, 13 November 2015. Retrieved on 2 June 2016.Siegel, Rachel and Wang, Monica. "Lui to succeed Brenzel as TD master", Yale Daily News, 14 April 2015. Retrieved on 2 June 2016. A former director of undergraduate studies and director of graduate studies for Yale University's American Studies program, she is also affiliated with Yale's Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program and its Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program."New Timothy Dwight master named: historian Mary Lui", YaleNews, 14 April 2015. Retrieved on 2 June 2016. Lui is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, a co-winner of the 2007 Best Book Prize for History from the Association for Asian American Studies."Awards" Association for Asian American Studies. Retrieved on 2 June 2016
Background
Lui received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1989 with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a certificate in East Asian Studies."2011 Candidate Biographies", Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 2 June 2016. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in history from Cornell University, studying under Asian American historian Gary Okihiro.Ye, Joey. "Donation triples size of AACC library", Yale Daily News, 4 November 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2016. Prior to arriving at Yale in 2000, Lui held appointments as a public historian at the Chicago History Museum, as the Charles Gaius Bolin Fellow at Williams College, and as a curator at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City."New Timothy Dwight master named: historian Mary Lui", YaleNews, 14 April 2015. Retrieved on 2 June 2016.
Writings
Mary Lui's first book The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City examines the unsolved 1909 murder of Elsie Sigel to explore race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the formation of New York City Chinatown, 1870–1920. Using a variety of English and Chinese-language sources such as census data, church records, reportage, and immigration files, Lui argues that coverage of the case magnified public hostility toward inter-racial relationships and further restricted Chinese mobility in New York City's Chinatown.Bovsun, Mara. "The Chinatown trunk mystery", New York Daily News, 25 March 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2016.Lui, Mary. "Mary Lui" Yale University. Retrieved on 2 June 2016Lui, Mary (2005). The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Lui is currently at work on a new book entitled Making Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Citizenship in Cold War America at Home and Abroad, which examines the history of Asian Americans and U.S. cultural diplomacy in Asia during the Cold War.Lui, Mary. "Mary Lui" Yale University. Retrieved on 2 June 2016
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