Susie X. Liu graduated from New York University with a double major in History and Economics. Her research interests center on Chinese immigration and urban life in the United States during the Chinese Exclusion Era. She is particularly interested in how Chinese immigrant communities navigated exclusionary legal and social environments and negotiated their place within American cities.
Her previous research examined Chinese religious life in the United States and the ways immigrant communities adapted religious practices and institutions in response to migration, racial exclusion, and changing social conditions. Her current interests extend this work into the urban sphere, exploring the intersections of religion, municipal governance, crime and policing, and community institutions. Through these themes, she is interested in how Chinese immigrants responded to, negotiated with, and sometimes circumvented the institutions and restrictions that shaped everyday life during the Chinese Exclusion Era.
At Columbia University and LSE, Susie hopes to further explore Chinese immigrant communities within the broader histories of migration, race, and urban governance in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.
