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American historian

For the physics and engineering professor, see Evelyn Hu.

Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Chinese: 胡其瑜; pinyin: Hú Qíyú^[1]) is a Professor of History and a Professor of American Studies at Brown University.

Biography

Hu-DeHart was born in Chungking, China in 1947. Her family fled to Hong Kong in 1949 and then to the United States in 1959.^[2] She received a full scholarship to attend Stanford University in 1965 at the age of 17 and graduated in 1968 with a B.A.

in Political Science with Honors, and was recognized with the Dinkelspiel Award.^[3] Her encounter with the Civil Rights Movement and Third World activism was particularly influential during those years.

Evelyn hu dehart biography of barack obama

After a Fulbright to Brazil, she proceeded to receive her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 in Latin American History.

She then joined the Department of History at the Washington University in St. Louis, where she stayed from 1973 to 19