Vivian Louie

Vivian Louieis Professor of Urban Policy and Planning and Director of the Asian American Studies Program and Center at Hunter College/CUNY. Dr. Louie served as the CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter from 2013-2014. She was previously an associate and assistant professor, and postdoctoral fellow in education, as well as lecturer in sociology at Harvard University, and a program officer at the William T. Grant Foundation.

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, 2014) and Keeping the Immigrant Bargain: The Costs and Rewards of Success in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012). She is co-editor of and contributor to a third book, Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue (University of California Press, 2011).

Why Ethnic Studies is Pivotal Today

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“Where do we belong in this unfolding story of America?” WITH THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC and the Black Lives Matter protests, I am powerfully reminded that Ethnic Studies remains more important than ever1 and that much more work still needs to be done. COVID-19 and the Civil Rights protests have underscored longstanding inequalities in the United … Read more

Growing Up in Transnational Worlds: A Comparative Look at Chinese and Dominican Americans

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Transnationalism refers to the phenomenon of immigrants maintaining connections to their country of origin, and employing a dual frame of reference to evaluate their experiences and outcomes in the country in which they have settled. How does transnationalism matter in the identities among the second generation, e.g., individuals who were born in the United States, … Read more

2013-2014 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor

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Vivian Louie Hunter College/CUNY Department of Urban Affairs and Planning Fall 2013 Course: Social Contexts of Education Course Syllabus: PDF What is the relationship between schools and society? How can schools respond to society’s transformations, for example, labor market and demographic shifts, and address educational inequality? There have been major transformations in the school populations … Read more