She established the first full-fledged autonomous Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and was the first Asian American woman in the University of California system to hold the title of provost.
[1] She received a bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College (Economics, 1963), a master's degree at the University of Hawaiʻi (Asian Studies, 1965), and a Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley (Political Science, 1973).
Now retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara because of the effects of post-polio syndrome, she donated much of her personal papers to the Immigration History Research Center Archives, part of the University of Minnesota Libraries, and has made multiple donations of books from her large personal library to the University of California, Merced.
[3] Chan married Mark Juergensmeyer, a fellow graduate student at UC Berkeley, who became a widely published scholar in the fields of religion and politics, global studies, and terrorism.
Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History.