Mae Ngai Elected Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History
CUAFA life-time achievement awardee Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History was recently elected as an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History.
Professor Ngai is widely recognized as one of the leading scholars of U.S. immigration and Asian American history. This honor recognizes a career that has profoundly reshaped the study of U.S. immigration, law, and Asian American history, while also modeling intellectual leadership, mentorship, and public engagement. For more than twenty-five years, her scholarship has demonstrated how legal history can illuminate lived experience, exposing the ways immigration law has structured race, citizenship, and national belonging in the modern United States and beyond.
