University of Rochester
Department Faculty

Anthony Carter
Professor

Ayala Emmett
Associate Professor

Signithia Fordham
Associate Professor

Robert J. Foster
Professor and Chair

Thomas P. Gibson
Professor

Eleana Kim
Assistant Professor

Maryann McCabe
Senior Lecturer

Daniel Reichman
Assistant Professor


Anthropologists in Other Departments

Noelle C. Andrus
Assistant Professor

Nancy Chin
Assistant Professor

Mary-Therese Dombeck
Professor

Nancy Foster
Lead Anthropologist, Digital Initiatives Unit

Ewa Hauser
Associate Professor

Ernestine McHugh
Associate Professor

Bethel Powers
Professor


Administrative Assistant

Rose Marie Ferreri

Eleana Kim
Assistant Professor
Office: Lattimore 419, Telephone: (585) 275-8740
E-mail: ekim38@mail.rochester.edu


CV | Courses | Publications


Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2007

Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University
Dissertation: “Remembering Loss: The Cultural Politics of Overseas Adoption from South Korea”

2001

M.A., Anthropology and Program in Culture and Media, New York University
Thesis: “Refashioning Self, Family and Finding Community: The Collective Articulation of Korean Adopteeness”

1994 B.A., English Literature, Brown University
Senior Project: “Language Poetry: Dissident Practices and the Makings of a Movement”

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS & AWARDS

2006 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Korean Studies, UCLA 2005 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU 2003 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council 2003 Fulbright Institute of International Education Fellowship 2002 Honored Paper, Student Paper Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) 2002 Social Science Research Council Program in International Migration, Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop 2001 James West Memorial Fund for Human Rights Grant 1999 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Practicum Grant 1994 Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize in English Literature, Brown University


List of Current Courses
ANT 101: Introduction to Anthropology
ANT 229: War and Migration


List of Past Courses
ANT 205: Theories and Debates in Anthropology
ANT 225: Social Uses of Media


SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Spring 2007

“Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Transnational Adoptees as Specters of Foreignness and Family in South Korea.” Anthropological Quarterly.

2007

“Remembering Loss: The Koreanness of Overseas Adopted Koreans.” International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice. K. Bergquist and E. Vonk, eds. Haworth Press.

2005

“Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea.” Social Text 74 (Spring 2003). Reprinted in Cultures of Transnational Adoption, T. A. Volkman, ed. Duke University Press.

2004 “Gathering ‘Roots’ and Making History in the Korean Adoptee Community.” In Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life. M. Checker and M. Fishman, eds. Columbia University Press.
2004 “Korean Adoptee Status in the United States.” In Korean Americans: Past, Present, and Future. Cambridge, MA: Harvard/ Hollym Publishing.
Spring/Summer 2001 “Korean Adoptee Auto-Ethnography: Refashioning Self, Family, and Finding Community,”
Visual Anthropology Review 16, no. 1.
2001 “Language Poetry: Dissident Practices and the Makings of a Movement,” readme, #4.