Mary Lui

Mary Lui is Professor of American Studies and History. Her primary research interests include: 19th and 20th Century U.S. History, Asian American history, transnationalism, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). The book uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the cultural, social and spatial formation of New York City Chinatown from 1870-1920.  She is working on a new book project on the role of Asian Americans in U.S. cultural diplomacy projects in the early years of the Cold War.