Nancy Abelmann

Nancy Abelmann (April 24, 1959 – January, 6, 2016) was an American anthropologist and Harry E. Preble Professor of anthropology, Asian American studies, and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1] where shd also served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research from 2009-2016, and as Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies from 2005 to 2008.

Education and Research

Nancy earned a bachelors degree in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from University of California, Berkeley.[2] An anthropologist of Korea and of Korean Americans, she studied transnational and urban studies, film studies, Asian studies, Asian American studies, education, and gender studies. Her work, along with John Lie, Kathleen McHugh, Jung-ah Choi and So Jin Park, helped energize and shape Korean studies and Asian American studies over the past two decades.[3]

Nancy was instrumental in the development of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as creating the Ethnography of the University Initiative with Peter Mortensen and Bill Kelleher.

From 2012-2014, she served as the President of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology.

Awards
  • Helen Corley Petit Professorship 1998-99
  • 2005 Leeds Prize from the Society of Urban and Transnational Anthropology for The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Class, and Talk in Contemporary South Korea, American Anthropological Association.[4][5]
  • 2014 Im Seok-chae Award from the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology (for best translated book in Korean) for her 2003 monograph, The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Class, and Talk in Contemporary South Korea from University of Hawaii Press.[6]
  • Harry E. Preble Professorship 2007-2016

Works
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  • Making Family Work: How Korean American Teens and Parents Navigate Immigrant America (with Sumie Okazaki). NYU Press, 2018.
  • South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad (second editor, with Adrienne Lo, Soo Ah Kwon, and Sumie Okazaki). University of Washington Press, 2017.
  • No Alternative?: Experiments in South Korean Education (co-edited with Jung-ah Choi and So Jin Park). Berkeley: Global, Area, and International Archive. University of California Press, 2012.
  • The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation. Duke University Press, 2009.
  • South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema (co-edited with Kathleen McHugh). Wayne State University Press, 2005.
  • The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Class, and Talk in Contemporary South Korea. University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Korean translation published in 2014.
  • Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (with John Lie). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

References
  1. "Remembering Nancy Abelmann". Berkeley Anthropology. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  2. "Remembering Nancy Abelmann". Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  3. "Nancy Abelmann". The News Gazette. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  4. "Recipients of the Leeds Award, 1995-2017". Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  5. Kim, Eleana; Song, Jesook (2018). "Introduction: Reflections on Nancy Abelmann's Legacy". The Journal of Asian Studies. 77 (4): 945–952. doi:10.1017/S0021911818000967.
  6. "Congratulations to Nancy Abelmann (The Im Seok Chae Award for 2014)". Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
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