Join the Yale Club of Washington, DC for an annual meeting of members, including a presentation on the State of the Club followed by a conversation with Yale History Professor Mary Lui.

Calling all members of the Yale Club of Washington, DC! You are invited to our annual meeting of members, which will include a presentation on the state of the Club followed by an open conversation with Mary Lui, Yale Professor and Timothy Dwight Head of College.  The conversation will be focused on the historical context and current insights into the issues currently being faced by Asian American communities as a result of the pandemic.  Registrants are highly encouraged to watch Professor’s Lui’s online lecture on Asian American Issues in the Pandemic Era - YouTube, prior to attending the event.

This is a members-only meeting, so please verify your membership before registering.  Not a member, you may join here.

About the Speakers

Mary Lui is a Professor of American Studies and History as well as the Head of Timothy Dwight College. Her primary research interests include: Asian American history, 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 2007 co-winner of the best book prize for history from the Association of Asian American Studies. 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 currently working on a new book titled, Making Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Citizenship in Cold War America at Home and Abroad, that examines the history of Asian American and U.S. cultural diplomacy in Asia in the early years of the Cold War.

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