Researchers
Dr. Nancy Abelmann, is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures; and the Associate Vice Chancellor of Research – Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields. She has a record of research on contemporary East Asia and Asian America, with a particular focus on South Korea, education, class, migration, and family. Her recent book, The Intimate University: Korean Americans and the Problems of Segregation (Duke UP, 2009) is an ethnographic study of the University of Illinois. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), a program devoted to undergraduate research. Abelmann also directs “The Korean Family in Comparative Perspective” Laboratory (KFCP) for the Globalization of Korean Studies, a 5-year project funded by the Academy of Korean Studies (2010-).
Dr. Soo Ah Kwon, Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Human and Community Development, has research expertise on activism by youth of color and Asian American college students. Her book, Uncivil Youth: Activism and Affirmative Governmentality is forthcoming from Duke University Press and she has published in leading journals in Asian American Studies and anthropology. Kwon has recently begun new research on the role of non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental bodies in shaping and producing spaces for transnational youth participation and activism.
Dr. Tim F. Liao,Professor of Sociology, has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Statistics, and has contributed extensively to social science methodology, social statistics, demography, family and marriage, and population studies through publications and editorial service. He is Editor of Sociological Methodology, a premier methods journal of the American Sociological Association.
Dr. Adrienne Lo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, with appointments in Linguistics, Asian American Studies, and the Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her work draws upon discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and education. Lo is the co-editor of Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (OUP, 2009) and co-editor of a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics on “Globalization, multilingualism and identity in transnational perspective: The case of South Korea.” Lo’s recent research examines the plight of South Korean returnees from study abroad; media representations of Korean Americans in the South Korean popular media; and the history of the racialization of Asian American linguistic competencies.
Dr. Soo Ah Kwon, Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Human and Community Development, has research expertise on activism by youth of color and Asian American college students. Her book, Uncivil Youth: Activism and Affirmative Governmentality is forthcoming from Duke University Press and she has published in leading journals in Asian American Studies and anthropology. Kwon has recently begun new research on the role of non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental bodies in shaping and producing spaces for transnational youth participation and activism.
Dr. Tim F. Liao,Professor of Sociology, has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Statistics, and has contributed extensively to social science methodology, social statistics, demography, family and marriage, and population studies through publications and editorial service. He is Editor of Sociological Methodology, a premier methods journal of the American Sociological Association.
Dr. Adrienne Lo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, with appointments in Linguistics, Asian American Studies, and the Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her work draws upon discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and education. Lo is the co-editor of Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (OUP, 2009) and co-editor of a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics on “Globalization, multilingualism and identity in transnational perspective: The case of South Korea.” Lo’s recent research examines the plight of South Korean returnees from study abroad; media representations of Korean Americans in the South Korean popular media; and the history of the racialization of Asian American linguistic competencies.
Student Researchers
Graduate Students/ Post-doctoral Researchers:
Valeria Bonatti Sociology
Xin Chai Psychology
Hee Young Choi Curriculum and Instruction
Lee Jin Choi Curriculum and Instruction
Mark Frank East Asian Languages and Cultures
Nicholas Pittman Sociology
Hye-Seung Kang Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Yoonjung Kang Anthropology
Yu-Kyung Kang English
Janice Kim Curriculum and Instruction
Sujung Kim Education Policy Studies
Viveka Kudaligama Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Heejung Kwon Curriculum and Instruction
Alex J.S. Lee Anthropology
Kyou Ho Lee Anthropology
Tzu-kai Liu Anthropology
Lucinda Morgan Education Policy Studies
Agnes Sohn Anthropology
Liza Youngling Anthropology
Undergraduate Students:
Elizabeth Bergmann
Jeffrey Harmon
Eric Heim
Dana Fager
Eric French
Mary Claire Gustafson
Mark Harris
Wei Hu
Jirapa Jadecharoonviwat
David Kelly
Xinhui Jaeden Lowe
Meiling Mahaffey
Young Sun Park
Anna Prior
Christopher Stillwell
Ryan Young
