Professor Huping Ling Honored as Role Model Speaker

Huping Ling, Professor of History, has been selected by the University of Saskatchewan as a Role Model Speaker at the College of Art and Science in 2012. She will deliver a public lecture on the “Rise of China and Chinese in North America” on May 15, 2012.

On March 29 and 30, Professor Ling will give a series of invited public lectures in Chicago on her newly published book Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 (Stanford University Press, 2012). She has been invited by DePaul University for its “Women’s History Month Lecture” to deliver a public lecture on “Celestial Women in the Windy City” on March 29 (Richardson Library Room 400, 5-6 pm), by the Asian American Studies Program at University of Illinois in Chicago to give a public lecture on “Chinese in Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community” on March 30 (208 Burnham Hall, 10-11am), and by the Chinese American Service League to give a public lecture on “Chinese Community in Chicago” (Grand Hall, 2141 S. Tan Court, 1-2pm).