IL/IN Dissertation Workshops
 
 
     
 

IL/IN NRC Consortium National Dissertation Workshops feature IL/IN areas of national strength in annual spring 2-day gatherings at which IL/IN faculty offer critical feedback on in-progress dissertations. The locations and topics for each of the four years is as follows:

 
 

Year 1      IL       Ethnography

Year 2      IN       East Asia Education

Year 3      IL       Korean Culture and Society

Year 4      IN       East Asian Sexuality and Gender
 
     
  Three faculty (one from the host institution and two from the partner institution) serve as the faculty discussants. A maximum of eight student participants from across the country are invited to participate. Participants submit a chapter or excerpt from their dissertation in advance, and during the Workshop each is given an hour (20-minute participant presentation, 40 minutes faculty feedback) for discussion of their work.  
 

The 2007 workshop, “East Asia Ethnography,” was held May 4-5, with faculty mentors Dr. Roger Janelli, Professor, folklore and ethnomusicology, Indiana University; Dr. Sara Friedman, Assistant Professor, anthropology, Indiana University; and Dr. Karen Kelsky, associate professor, anthropology and EALC, University of Illinois. Participants were Kimberly Couvson, Cornell University; David Kim, Columbia University; Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw; Yale University; Megan Tracy, University of Pennsylvania; Hijoo Son, UCLA; Tami Blumenfield, University of Washington; Makiko Yamaguchi, UC Davis; and Yu Wang, Duke University

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at University of Illinois
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phone: 217.333.7273 fax: 217.244.5729 eaps@uiuc.edu