Research Article| October 01 2017 The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia Erika Lee; Erika Lee Erika Lee is Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and Director of the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of three books and dozens of articles and book chapters on Asian American and immigration history, especially the history of immigration policy in the United States. Her 2015 book, The Making of Asian America (Simon & Schuster), won the 2015 Asian Pacific American Award for literature from the American Library Association. At the IHRC, she directs the Immigrant Stories digital storytelling and archiving project (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities) and manages the #ImmigrationSyllabus project. She was the recipient of the 2016 Pioneer Award from OCA—Asian Pacific American Advocates and the 2015 Immigrant Heritage Award from the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Donna Gabaccia Donna Gabaccia Donna Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and past Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of fourteen books and dozens of articles on immigrant class, gender, and food studies in the United States; on Italian migration around the world; and on migration in world history. Her 2015 book Gender and International Migration (Russell Sage Foundation), co-authored with sociologist and demographer Katharine M. Donato, was awarded an Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association’s Znaniecki Prize. Her previous book, Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective (Princeton University Press), won the 2012 Theodore Saloutos Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Her work in public history earned her the 2013 University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Award for Faculty and the 2012 Society of American Archivists’ Hamer-Kegan Award for the Immigration History Research Center Project, “Digitizing Immigrant Letters.” In 2008–2009, she was President of the Social Science History Association. She is currently Chair of the Executive Board of the Toronto Ward Museum. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in history and women’s studies, focusing on migration, gender, and diasporas in world history, digital history, and gender in the kitchen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2017) 37 (1): 70–77. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erika Lee, Donna Gabaccia; The Role of the Public Historian: An Interview with Donna Gabaccia. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2017; 37 (1): 70–77. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0070 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.