Madeline Hsu's main research interests include migration, transnationalism and diaspora, Cold War, and ethnic studies. Dr. Hsu's first monograph, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000) received the 2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. Her edited anthologies include Chinese Americans and the Politics of Culture, with Sucheng Chan (Temple University Press, 2008) and Chinese American Transnational Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2010) featuring articles by Him Mark Lai. The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015) is her second monograph. She is currently writing Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press.
Ph.D.
in History, Yale University
M.A.
in History, Yale University
B.A.
in History, Pomona College
Migration, Transnationalism and Diaspora, Chinese Overseas, and Ethnic Studies, Immigration Policy
Chair,
Nominations committee & Procedures and Policies Review Committee, Association for Asian American Studies (2014 - 2015)
Vice-President,
International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (2014 - 2016)
Member,
Editorial Board, Journal of American Ethnic History (2014 - Present)
Sections Representative,
Association for Asian American Studies, (2013 - 2015)
Member,
Program Committee, Organization of American Historians (2013 - 2014)
Chair,
Department of History Scholarly Activity Grant Committee, University of Texas at Austin (2013 - 2015)
Member,
Executive Board, Immigration and Ethnic History Society (2011 - 2014)
Member,
Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review (2006 - 2008)
Director,
Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2006 - 2014)
Member,
History Book Award Committee, Association for Asian American Studies (2005)
Member,
Editorial Board, Journal of Overseas Chinese (2003 - Present)
Chair,
Executive Committee, Chinese America: History and Perspectives (1998 - 2002)
OAH-Japan Residencies Fellow
- Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan (2016)
Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2016)
2015 CALA Award (Non-Fiction)
- Chinese American Librarians Association (2016)
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society (2015)
Community Leadership Award
- Network of Asian American Organizations and Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce (2012)
RAISE Awareness Award
- Asian/Asian American Faculty Staff Association, University of Texas at Austin (2009)
Deans Fellowship
- University of Texas at Austin (2006)
History Book Award
- Association for Asian American Studies (2002)
