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Nancy
Abelmann
(Ph.D.
California-Berkeley)
Professor EALC, Anthropology and Asian American Studies;
Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies;
Harry
E. Preble Professor: Contemporary South Korean class/social
mobility, gender, social movements, education, family, film,
cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism; Korean/Asian American family,
education, race
217-333-7273
nabelman@uiuc.edu
www.nancyabelmann.com
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My primary area expertise is in South Korea and Korean/Asian
America; my substantive interests include social movements,
class/social mobility, education, immigration, families, and
gender; and my theoretical interests converge on culture, history,
narrative, memory, transnationalism, and social transformation.
I have published books on social movements in contemporary South
Korea (Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean
Social Movement, University of California Press, 1996);
Korean America (Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los
Angeles Riots, with John Lie, Harvard University Press,
1995); women and social mobility in post-colonial South Korea
(The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk and Class in Contemporary
South Korea, University of Hawaii Press 2003); and film
(Gender, Genre, and Nation: South Korean Golden Age Melodrama,
is in press at Wayne State University Press, 2005). My co-edited
volume with Jung Ah Choi and So Jin Park, No Alternative?
Experiments in South Korean Education, is currently under
review. And I have just finished The Intimate University:
College, Segregation, and the Korean American Family, based
on 4 years of transnational ethnography on the educational trajectories
of Korean American public college students as they articulate
with the educational histories of their immigrant parents. With
U of I colleague Sumie Okazaki I am currently writing What
Korean American Teens and Parents do to Make Family Work
based on extensive field research among Chicagoland Korean Americans. |
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