Contact Information

leehe@dickinson.edu

Denny Hall
717-245-1249

Bio

Helene K. Lee’s research and teaching focus on immigration/migration, globalization, race/ethnicity particularly Asian American identities, and qualitative methods. Her book, Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese (Rutgers University Press), received the Book Award on Asian America from the Asia/Asian-America Section of the American Sociological Association. She is currently working on a project on the ways racial, ethnic, and immigrant identities shape understandings of care work at both ends of the life spectrum. In particular, she is interested in how second-generation Asian Americans balance and negotiate the responsibilities of elder care for their aging immigrant parents with parenting their dependent children at a time when expectations have been more intensive and involved.

Education

• B.A., Cornell University, 1997
• M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
• Ph.D., 2009