Eleana Kim : Faculty & Staff : Department of Anthropology : University of Rochester

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 104: Contemporary Issues and Anthropology
ANT 225: Social Uses of Medi

List of Past Courses

ANT 101: Introduction to Anthropology
ANT 205: Theories and Debates in Anthropology
ANT 223: Nature, Landscape, Environment
ANT 229: War and Migration
ANT 301: Advanced Topic Seminar: Nature

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.