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Shelley Sang-Hee Lee is a professor of American Studies at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, she was a Professor of History and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the histories of immigration, race relations, Asian Americans, and U.S. cities during the twentieth century. Her articles have been published in journals such as Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and the Western Historical Quarterly. Her books include Koreatown, Los Angeles: Race, Immigration, and the American Dream (2022); A New History of Asian America (2013) and Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America (2011). Other writings on subjects from college student activism to the #MeToo movement in higher ed have been published in online venues such as Ms. Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, and Salon. Lee also consults widely on K-12 initiatives to develop curricula in Asian American studies. She is working on a project about the history of undocumented Asians in the United States.