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Beth Lew-Williams is a Professor of History and Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at Princeton University. She holds affiliations with the Program in American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Princeton Migration Lab. Her research focuses on race, migration, and Asian American history, with a specialization in 19th century U.S. West dynamics and legal exclusion policies.
- Educations: A.B. from Brown University, Ph.D. in History from Stanford University
Her groundbreaking work explores how racial violence, immigration policy, and imperialism shaped U.S. concepts of citizenship and alienage. Key contributions include The Chinese Must Go (2018), which won multiple prestigious awards, and her forthcoming book John Doe Chinaman (2025), examining Chinese inclusion under racial law. Her research on Chinese migrants’ legal struggles has redefined understandings of exclusion policies’ societal impacts.
Her articles analyze topics like voting rights, undocumented histories, and racialized intimacy in California. Awards include the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award and NEH support for her latest project. Lew-Williams has held fellowships from Mellon, ACLS, and others, and previously taught at Northwestern University.
- Grants: NEH-supported book project, ACLS New Faculty Fellowship
Her advising includes student Yi Feng Alexander Jin, and she actively participates in interdisciplinary collaborations through the Migration Lab.
