Frank H. Wu, the former dean of the Wayne State University Law School and a noted author on race relations in the United States as they relate to Asian Americans, will serve this week as the first Law and Humanities Lecturer for the Center for Law and Humanities at Elon University.
The lecture is free and open to the public on Tuesday, October 28, at 7 p.m. in Whitley Auditorium.
Wu is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. the same day with law students, faculty, and guests of the Center and the Elon University School of Law at a breakfast reception. He will also address two classes in the Isabella Cannon Room in the Center for the Arts at 12:25 p.m. on main campus.
Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, and he co-authored Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. He served as the ninth dean of Wayne State University School of Law from 2004-2008 and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and George Washington University.
He is the recipient of the 2008 Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific Fund, named for the late Chancellor of the University of California at Berkley and selected from a national pool of nominees. Wu has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Now with Bill Moyers, The NewsHour with Jim Leher, The O’Reilly Factor, Talk Back Live on CNN and National Public Radio.
Wu received his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and his law degree from the University of Michigan. He has completed the Management Development Program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
He and his wife, Carol L. Izumi, live in Washington, D.C.