Andrea Louie

Andrea Louie (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley), is a Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on how ideas of “Chineseness” as a racial and cultural identity have been reworked as Chinese people from different parts of the world interact.

She is author of “Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States,” and “How Chinese Are You?: Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture.” She has done research on Chinese international students at MSU, and received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 2020 to work on a book on her maternal grandmother, who was selected as U.S. Mother of the Year in 1952. This book, titled, “Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority” was published in 2025.

She founded the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and is a past program director. She has also served as the Institutional Access Coordinator for the Anthropology Department.