Doreen Lee is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. Dr. Lee writes, researches, and teaches about urban politics, Southeast Asia, and critical theory. She received her undergraduate degree in archaeology from New York University, and her PhD from Cornell University where she specialized in sociocultural anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies. Her first book, Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia, was awarded the Harry J. Benda Book Prize in 2019 by the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.