Evelyn Hu-DeHart () is a Professor of History and a Professor of

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Biography

Hu-DeHart was born in

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

, China in 1947. Her family fled to Hong Kong in 1949 and then to the United States in 1959. She received a full scholarship to attend

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in 1965 at the age of 17 and graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in Political Science with Honors, and was recognized with the Dinkelspiel Award. Her encounter with the

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and

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activism was particularly influential during those years. After a Fulbright to Brazil, she proceeded to receive her Ph.D. at the

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in 1976 in Latin American History. She then joined the Department of History at the

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, where she stayed from 1973 to 1985, initially as an Instructor and was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure. She then moved to the Graduate Center at the

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, where she taught until 1988. After which, she served as the first Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA) at the

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. She then became a Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at

, as well as the Director of the school's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America in 2002. Additionally, she received a Doctor of Laws ''honoris causa'' from the

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in 2003. She has lectured and held visiting appointments in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, as well as at

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, and the

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. She speaks and/or reads over eight languages, including English, Spanish, and Chinese.

Academic work

Hu-DeHart has authored three books, served as editor for four edited volumes, and penned dozens of articles and chapters. She began her career with two books on the

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people of northwest Mexico and its borderlands. After which, her attention turned towards the lost history of Asian migration in Latin America, focusing in particular to their histories in Cuba,

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, and

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, where she examined the ways these immigrants have contributed to their respective societies and cultures. More broadly, she is a noted theorist of diasporas and transnationalism, as well as multicultural education in the United States.

Selected publications

*''Missionaries, Miners, and Indians: History of Spanish Contact with the Yaqui Indians of Northwestern New Spain, 1533-1830'' (1981) *''Yaqui Resistance and Survival: Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1910'' (1984) *''Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization'' (Editor) (1999) *''Voluntary Associations in the Chinese Diaspora'' (co-edited with Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce) (2006) *''Latino Politics en Ciencia Política: The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness'' (co-edited with Tony Affigne and Marion Orr) (2014)

References

External links

Brown University Faculty PageChinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University
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