Sucheng Chan

Sucheng Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈素真; traditional Chinese: 陳素真; pinyin: Chén Sùzhēn; born 1941) is a Chinese-American author, historian, scholar, and professor. She was the first to chair a Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and she was the first Asian American woman in the University of California system to hold the title of provost.

Chan was born in Shanghai, China in 1941. Her family moved to Hong Kong in 1949, to Malaysia in 1950, and to the US in 1957. She received a bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College (Economics, 1963), a master's degree at the University of Hawaii (Asian Studies, 1965), and a Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley (Political Science, 1973). She married Mark Juergensmeyer, a fellow graduate student at UC Berkeley. Now retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara because of the effects of post-polio syndrome, she donated much of her personal library and papers to the Immigration History Center University of Minnesota. She was a Guggenheim Fellowship laureate in 1988.

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