2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-0542
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: lmar@umd.edu

           Professor Mar specializes in the social and political history of immigrants, particularly Asian North Americans. Her current book project, Brokering Belonging: Chinese Vancouver, 1910-1960 , examines Chinese Canadian leaders as versatile political brokers who participated in struggles for equality and civil rights in a multicultural city where politics were simultaneously local, national and international.
            Mar's publications include "The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence and Lindsay's Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919," in Sisters or Strangers: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History, " (2004), Asian Canada: An Alternate Asian America?", on the Asian Pacific American History Collective website (2005), and "Remember Us: A Search for Chinese Roots in Canada," published in Chinese America: History and Perspectives (1993). In addition, she served as a researcher and continues to serve as an advisor for the PBS series Ancestors in the Americas, whose first two parts were broadcast nationally in March 2001. Professor Mar has held a number of prestigious fellowships, among them an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, The Queen's Fellowship of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. She also has received visiting fellowships from Cornell's East Asia Program and from Green College at the University of British Columbia. In 2003, the University of Maryland General Research Board granted her an award for summer research to further her book Brokering Belonging. She and Professor Dae Young Kim of Sociology have received a CTE Grant to develop a new course on Asian Americans in Washington, DC as well. Professor Mar holds a joint appointment in both the Department of History and the Asian American Studies Program. She is also an affiliate faculty member in American Studies.

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