Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Her research investigates the meaning of race, gender, and inequality across three critical sites: immigration, health and medicine, and law and society. Lee is the author of Fictive Kinship: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013) and coeditor (with Keith Wailoo and Alondra Nelson) of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (Rutgers University Press, 2012). Her current project examines the meaning of diversity in US biomedicine. Lee is a 2000 dissertation fellow of the SSRC’s Sexuality Research Fellowship Program.