Mary Ting Yi Lui | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
| Education | Princeton University, Cornell University |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University |
| Notable work | The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City |
Mary Ting Yi Lui (born 1967) is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and head of Yale's Timothy Dwight College.[1][2] She is Yale's first tenured professor specializing in Asian American Studies and the first Asian American female to serve as head of a Yale residential college.[3][4][5] A former director of undergraduate studies and director of graduate studies for Yale University's American Studies program, she is also affiliated with Yale's Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program and its Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.[6] Lui is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, a co-winner of the 2007 Best Book Prize for History from the Association for Asian American Studies.[7]