Vivian Louie
Professor in Urban Policy & Planning & Director of Asian American Studies Center and Program, Hunter College
Vivian Louie is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning and Director of the Asian American Studies Program and Center at Hunter College. Dr. Louie’s research has focused on understanding the factors that shape success along the educational pipeline among immigrants and the children of immigrants. She is the author of two books, Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education and Opportunity Among Chinese Americans (Stanford University Press) and Keeping the Immigrant Bargain: The Costs and Rewards of Success in America (Russell Sage Foundation), along with numerous scholarly articles, chapters, and entries. She is co-editor of and contributor to a third book, Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue (University of California Press). Her research has been featured on NPR, All Things Considered and additional news outlets.
Dr. Louie was associate and assistant professor, and postdoctoral fellow in education, as well as lecturer in sociology at Harvard, and a program officer at the William T. Grant Foundation. She has also previously worked as a newspaper journalist, journalism teacher, and youth magazine editor.
Dr. Louie earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the Yale University Department of Sociology, M.A. from the Stanford University Department of Communication, and A.B. from Harvard University in History and Literature.
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