Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Brown University

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History at Brown University. She joined Brown from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. She has also taught at the City University of New York system, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Arizona, and University of Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China.

Hu-DeHart was born in China and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was 12. As an undergraduate at Stanford University she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led her to a PhD in Latin American history. She has written two books on the Yaqui Indians, and is now engaged in a large research project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Her videos are part of the following Choices Program’s curriculum units:

A Global Controversy: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Between Two Worlds: Mexico at the Crossroads
Immigration and the U.S. Policy Debate
Imperial America: U.S. Global Expansion, 1890-1915
Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
Lessons for Ethnic Studies
Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies
The Syrian Civil War
The U.S. Role in a Changing World
Westward Expansion: A New History