Nancy A Abelmann
Professor of Asian American Studies, Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Gender and Women's Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
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Address: Anthropology
607 S. Matthews
607 S Mathews
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801 - Telephone: (217) 244-1867 Fax: (217)244-3716
- Email: nabelman@illinois.edu
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Biography
Nancy Abelmann (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990) is an anthropologist specializing on the Koreas and Asian America, interested particularly in class, mobility, education, family, migration, mental health, and gender.
Specializations / Research Interest(s)
- Sociocultural Anthropology
- East Asia
- U.S./North America
- Transnational/Diaspora
Education
- Ph.D. (Social Cultural Anthropology), University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
Publications
Books
- Abelmann, Nancy. The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation. . Duke University Press, 2009.
- Abelmann, Nancy. The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea. . University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
- Abelmann, Nancy. Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
- Abelmann, Nancy, and John Lie. Blue Dream: Korean Americans and the L.A. Riots. . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Book Contributions
- Abelmann, Nancy. "Undergraduate Korean Americans and “Korean Koreans” in the Millennial American University." Koreans in America: History, Culture and Identity. . Ed. Grace J. Yoo. Cognella Academic Publishing, 2012.
Edited Books
- Abelmann, Nancy, Jung-ah Choi, and So Jin Park. No Alternative?: Experiments in South Korean Education. . Global, Area, and International Archive / University of California Press: Berkeley, 2011.
- Abelmann, Nancy, and Kathleen McHugh. South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema. . Wayne State University Press, 2005.
Journal Articles
- Kang, Jiyeon, and Nancy Abelmann. "The Domestication of South Korean Pre-College Study Abroad (PSA) in the first Decade of the Millennium." Journal of Korean Studies 16.1 (2011):
- Kang, Hyeyoung , Sumie Okazaki, Nancy Abelmann, Chu Kim-Prieto, and Shanshan Lan. "Redeeming Immigrant Parents: How Korean American Emerging Adults Reinterpret Their Childhood." Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2010): 1-24.
- Abelmann, Nancy, So Jin Park, and Hyunhee Kim. ""College Rank and Neoliberal Subjectivity in South Korea: The Burden of Self-Development"." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 10.2 (2009): 229-247.
- Abelmann, Nancy, Susan Davis, Cara Finnegan, and Peggy Miller. "What is StoryCorps, Anyway?." Oral History Review 36.2 (2009): 255-260.
- Abelmann, Nancy, Gina Hunter, Timothy R. Cain, Tim McDonough, and Catherine Prendergast. ""Interrogating the University, One Archival Entry at a Time"." Change: The Magazine of Higher Education (2008):
- Abelmann, Nancy, and Shanshan Lan. ""Christian Universalism and U.S. Multiculturalism: An "Asian American" Campus Church"." Amerasia 34.1 (2008): 65-84.
- Abelmann, Nancy, Sumie Okazaki, and E.J.R. David. ""Colonialism and Psychology of Culture"." Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2007):
- Abelmann, Nancy, and Catherine Prendergast. ""Alma Mater: College, Kinship, and the Pursuit of Diversity"." Social Text 24.1 (2006): 37-53.
- Park, So Jin, and Nancy Abelmann. "Class and cosmopolitan striving: Mothers' management of English education in South Korea." Anthropological Quarterly 77.4 (2004): 645-672.