Thursday, Mar 22, 2018
Beth Lew-Williams’ work focuses on race and migration in the U.S.
Historian Beth Lew-Williams will deliver the 25th annual Emanuel Levine History Lecture on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Sweigart Auditorium on Rider’s Lawrenceville campus. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by Rider University’s Department of History.
Lew-Williams, who is an assistant professor of history and Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University, will address the subject of “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in the United States.” Her work focuses on race and migration in the U.S., specializing in Asian American history. Based on her new book of the same title, the paper will examine the tangled relationships between local racial violence, federal immigration policy and U.S. imperial ambitions in Asia.
Lew-Williams earned a bachelor’s from Brown University and a doctorate in history from Stanford University. She has held fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
The lecture series is named in honor of the late Dr. Emanuel Levine, a Rider history professor for more than 30 years before he died in 1980.
For further information, please contact Anne Osborne at [email protected] or Nikki Shepardson at [email protected] or 609-895-5459.
Photo/Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite (2017)
