Jamie Lew
Associate Professor
Staff
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
167 Bradley Hall
(973) 353-3534
Jamielew@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://edu.newark.rutgers.edu/index.html

Jamie Lew is the author of Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap Among Korean American Youths. (Teachers College Press, 2006). By examining both high- and low-achieving Korean American students, this book examines how stratifying forces of class, race, and schools impact academic achievement among 1.5- and second-generation Asian American youths
in urban schools.

She is currently writing her second book of Asian Americans in New Jersey. This book tentatively titled, Asian Americans in New Jersey: Memories and Narratives in the Making (Rutgers University Press, 2007) will be the first systematic effort to conduct, collect, and distribute oral histories of Asian Americans in New York metropolitan area. Along with this oral history project, she is also conducting research on how changing demographics of immigrants and their children are impacting race relations and education policy of urban and suburban schools in New Jersey.

She is a faculty member of the Ph.D. American Studies Program as well as the Ph.D. Urban Systems Program—a joint program with Rutgers—Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). She is also a faculty affiliate of Center for Global Change and Governance, Sociology, Urban Studies, Women Studies, as well as the Institute of Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and the Institute on Education Law and Policy.

link to c.v.