Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies (formerly the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught in the City University of New York system, and at New York University, Washington University at St. Louis, the University of Arizona, and the University of Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hongkong, Taiwan, and China.

She received her B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of numerous research awards, including two Fulbrights (to Brazil and Peru). She is also the recipient of a three-year Kellogg National Leadership Award.

Evelyn Hu-De-Hart speaks Spanish and Portuguese as well as three dialects in her native Chinese. She reads French and German and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Taiwan and China. She has published in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Zoque Mayan.

She is the author of three books (one in Spanish) on the Yaqui Indians of northern Mexico and Arizona and numerous scholarly articles on her current research on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has written on the politics of multiculturalism.

She lectures, testifies, consults, and conducts workshops on Latin American/Caribbean history, politics, and contemporary affairs; race, ethnic, and gender relations and issues; multicultural education and the politics of multiculturalism; ethnic studies and curriculum reform; Asian American history and the Asian diaspora worldwide; refugee and immigration issues; recruitment and retention of students and faculty of color. During the past five years,she has lectured at over fifty U.S. campuses, educational and cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian, The American Museum of Natural History, and the Asia Society (New York City). She has testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, participated in teleconferences sponsored by Black Issues in Higher Education, and appeared on the McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, among other television and radio programs. She is a founder of the Asian/Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute.

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is married and the mother of three "hybrid" children, ages 27, 18, and 13 (two daughters and a son).

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