Shiyong Lu is a joint PhD Candidate in the History/Hebrew & Judaic Studies Departments at New York University. Her research explores the diverse interactions between Jews and Chinese in America, with a focus on food and business. She is currently a Mellon Predoctoral Fellow in Women’s and Public History at the New York Historical. She is also the 2025-26 Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellow at the Center for Jewish History. Shiyong will be using the JHC’s collections for research toward her dissertation, “‘We Offer Chicken Chop Suey on Sundays’: How Chinese Food Purveyors Encountered Jews in Twentieth-Century America.”