Steven Lee

Steven Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Modern Thought and Literature program at Stanford University. His dissertation traces the interactions of American and Soviet conceptualizations of difference, focusing on how the Cold War shaped ethnic literatures and multiculturalism in the U.S In 2001-02 he was among the first-ever group of Fulbright students to be sent to the Central Asian Republics. His research project, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, compared Soviet Korean and Korean American literature and art, paying particular attention to Soviet nationality policy.