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Award-Winning Faculty, Successful Students

Our faculty members have won national awards for their research and University of Minnesota teaching awards for their excellence in both undergraduate and graduate teaching. Our students have gone on to careers in the arts, law, business, health care, social work, and education.

Recent Accomplishments

  • Prof. Erika Lee has won the 2011 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award.
  • Prof. Josephine Lee has begun her term as President of the Association for Asian American Studies
  • Prof. Richard Lee has been elected as the next President of the Asian American Psychological Association
  • Prof. Teresa Swartz has won the 2010 Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching Award and was recently interviewed about her research on Access, MN Radio
  • Prof. Erika Lee was recently interviewed about the Angel Island Immigration Station's centennial and her new book, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
Mai Nai Lee

Prof. Mai Na Lee was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education on September 4, 2011 commenting on "The Batter over Zomia."


Listen to Prof. Lee's January, 2009 speech:
“A Culture in Peril: Hmong Grave Desecration in Thailand.”