Mae Ngai
Mae Ngai | |||||||||||
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Ngai speaking in 2012 | |||||||||||
| Born | New York City, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Occupations | Historian; author; professor | ||||||||||
| Awards | Bancroft Prize, 2022 Frederick Jackson Turner Award | ||||||||||
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| Education | Empire State College (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) | ||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Foner | ||||||||||
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| Institutions | Columbia University University of Chicago | ||||||||||
| Main interests | American history | ||||||||||
| Notable works | Impossible Subjects (2004) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 艾明如 | ||||||||||
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Mae Ngai (Chinese: 艾明如) is an American historian who is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. Her work focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, immigration, and race in 20th-century United States history.