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Madeline Hsu
Professor of History and Asian American Studies, UT Austin

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Madeline Hsu
Professor of History and Asian American Studies, UT Austin
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
East Asian Migration, Educational Migration, Immigration During the 19th Century, Immigration During the 20th Century, Immigration During the 21st Century, Labor Migration, Race and Ethnicity
AREAS OF TEACHING
Asian American studies, US immigration and ethnic history, Chinese migration history
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Madeline Hsu is professor of history at UT Austin, and former director of the Center for Asian American Studies. She was born in Columbia, Missouri but grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong between visits with her grandparents at their store in Altheimer, Arkansas. She received her undergraduate degrees in History from Pomona College and PhD from Yale University. Her first book was Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000). Her most recent monograph, The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015), received awards from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and the Association for Asian American Studies. Her third book, Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction was published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and the co-edited anthology, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 by the University of Illinois Press in 2019. Professor Hsu has served in leadership roles for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, Association for Asian American Studies, and International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas. Please visit her most recent project, “Teach Immigration History,” at http://immigrationhistory.org.
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