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Hardeep Dhillon
ABF/NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality, American Bar Foundation/National Science Foundation

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Hardeep Dhillon
ABF/NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality, American Bar Foundation/National Science Foundation
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Detention and Deportation, East Asian Migration, Family and Child Migration, Immigration During the 19th Century, Immigration During the 20th Century, Immigration During the 21st Century, Nativism and Xenophobia, Race and Ethnicity, South / Southeast Asian Migration
AREAS OF TEACHING
Immigration and Border Enforcement, Law and Society, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, History, Asia, South Asia, United States, Latin America, Canada
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BIO
Hardeep Dhillon (pronouns are she/her/hers) is currently Assistant Professor in Asian American History and core faculty in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Dhillon’s research focuses on the history of immigration to the United States and the laws and legal practices that impact immigrant communities. Professor Dhillon’s current book project studies the legal construction of the mixed-status family. She is increasingly interested in the history of eligibility for U.S. citizenship, modern alienage, and the history of children born to non-citizen parents (including birthright citizens).
Her research has been published in the Journal of American History, Journal of Immigration and Ethnic History, The Historical Journal, and Western Historical Quarterly.
In her first year at Penn, Professor Dhillon was awarded The Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching by Standing Faculty at Penn. Prior to arriving at Penn, Professor Dhillon completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the American Bar Foundation. She earned her doctorate at Harvard University in History. At Harvard, her teaching also earned her the Faculty of the Year Award.
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