Pioneering Roosevelt University Sociologist Honored in Founding Faculty Lecture

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 3, 2013.  In 1945, the year Roosevelt was founded, Rose Hum Lee was hired to teach in the Department of Sociology. Eleven years later when she was appointed chair of the department, she became the first Chinese American woman to chair an academic department at an American university.

Lee’s fascinating life and distinguished academic career were the topics of Roosevelt’s second annual Founding Faculty lecture series held on Oct. 3.

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