 On November 24, 2019, she delivered the presidential address at the SBL Annual Meeting in 2019 in San Diego, California.She has donated her papers (1966–2014) to the Burke Library (Columbia University Libraries) at Union Theological Seminary in New York.Yee was honored as a "qianbei" ("respected elder") at the 2014 International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars, received the Graduate Theological Foundation's Krister Stendahl Medal in 2015, and received the Society of Biblical Literature's "Status of Women in the Profession Committee Mentor Award" in 2016.