Madeline Hsu

Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history at UMD College Park where she is director of the Center for Global Migration Studies and Affiliate Faculty with the Asian American Studies Program.  She was born in Columbia, MO but grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong between visits with her maternal grandparents at their store in Altheimer, AK.  She received her undergraduate degree in History from Pomona College and MA and PhD from Yale University. 

Her 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 second monograph The Good Immigrants:  How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority was published in 2015 by Princeton University Press and has won the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize; the 2015 Theodore J. Saloutos Book Award; the 2014-2015 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Adult Non-Fiction Honor Book; the 2015 Chinese American Librarians Association Award for non-fiction; and the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. Her third book is Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016).  She has edited anthologies including Chinese Americans and the Politics of Culture, with Sucheng Chan (Temple University Press, 2008); Chinese American Transnational Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2010) featuring articles by Him Mark Lai; A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 with Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari (University of Illinois Press, 2019); and with Donna Gabaccia and Marcelo Borges, The Cambridge History of Global Migrations Vol. II (2023).  Please visit her online curriculum project, “Teach Immigration History.”