Upcoming Visiting Scholars

Mary Lui

Mary Lui is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. Her primary research interests include: Asian American history, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005), the 2007 co-winner of the best book prize for history from the Association of Asian American Studies. The book uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the cultural, social and spatial formation of New York City Chinatown from 1870-1920.

Her current research focuses on the transnational cultural history of Asian Americans during the early years of the Cold War, 1945-1965.  Her book project, Making Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Citizenship in Cold War America at Home and Abroad, examines the history of Asian American and U.S. cultural diplomacy in Asia during this time.  

She is also a principal collaborator on the Asian Americans and STEM initiative at Yale along with Professor Theodore Kim in computer science and Professor Reina Maruyama in physics and astronomy.  With Ted Kim, she recently published “Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program” in the journal, Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences, vol. 54, no. 3 (June 2024).  

Upcoming Open Lecture

“Asian Americans and STEM”

Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM CST
Location: McMillan Cafe, McMillan Hall
Talk followed by Q&A.

Light refreshments will be served. See flyer here.

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Oliver Ezechi

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Oliver Ezechi is an OBGYN physician and is the Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Nigerian Ministry of Health, a Professor of Public Health at Lead City University, and an Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Calabar. He leads NIMR’s HIV treatment center, which has cared for over 25,000 patients since 2002 with support from PEPFAR and is the founding Director of the Center for Reproduction and Population Health Studies. He chairs the Institutional Review Board and serves on both State and National Ethic Committees. Dr. Ezechi specializes in women’s and adolescent health and infectious diseases, particularly HIV, cervical cancer, and Hepatitis B. He pioneered a program to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, achieving zero MTCT in the past five years through a uniques public-private partnership approach.

1st Upcoming Lecture:

Global Health Seminar: “Growing Global Connections to Advance Participatory Action Research in Nigeria”

Date: Monday, Oct. 14, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM CST
Location: Connor Auditorium, 1st Floor
Farrell Learning & Teaching Center, 1st floor, 520 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63130
For in-person and virtual attendance register here. See information here.

Note: A buffet lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 10 for lunch ordering purposes

2nd Upcoming Lecture:

Expanding Perspectives in Global Public Health Research and Training, “Brain Gain with Global Public Health: A Tale of Capacity-supporting Strategies from Nigeria to the U.S. with Policy Implications.”

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM CST
Location: Goldfarb Hall, Room 132, 6364 Forsyth Blvd, Clayton, MO 63105
For in-person and virtual attendance register, see information here.

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Ana Gallego Cuiñas

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