Shirley Lim



Associate Professor (Ph.D., UCLA, 1998)
E-Mail
shirley.lim@sunysb.edu
Office
SBS S-349
Phone
631-632-1341
Fax
631-632-7367
Research Interests

I focus on how Japanese American, Chinese American, and Filipina American women used movies, magazines, sorority membership, and beauty pageants to create an Americanized middle-class identity during an era of racial segregation and immigration exclusion.

Scholarly Works

A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960 (NYU Press, 2005).