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).