Stacey Lee

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Vilas Research Professor and Frederick Erickson WARF Professor

Stacey J. Lee is a Vilas Research Professor and the Frederick Erickson Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin. An educational anthropologist, Lee's research examines the role of formal and informal education in the incorporation of youth from immigrant and refugee families into the United States. Her primary strand of research focuses on education and the racialization of Asian American youth. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and three books - Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth, Up Against Whiteness: Race, School & Immigrant youth, and Resisting Asian American Invisibility: The Politics of Race and Education.