Sangmi Lee
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Mail code: 3051Campus: West
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Sangmi Lee received her D.Phil. in anthropology in 2016 from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) at the University of Oxford, U.K. Prior to coming to School of Social and Behavioral Sciences as an assistant professor in Spring 2018, she was a lecturer at Seoul National University, South Korea. Her current research focuses on how Hmong living in the diaspora have maintained extensive kinship networks and various cultural and economic practices across national borders despite the uncertainty about the location of ancestral homeland while also experiencing ethnic cultural differences based on their "partial" affiliation with different nation-states of residence. For this project, she conducted comparative, long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the Hmong communities in central Laos and the United States (California).
Diasporas, transnationalism, migration, nationalism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, globalization, global tourism, ethnographic methods, the Hmong diaspora, Asian American Studies, Southeast Asia (Laos), United States
Books:
Lee, Sangmi. In Press. Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora. University of Illinois Press.
Kassing, Jeffrey, & Sangmi Lee (eds.). Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game. Routledge. (Full contract received in May 2022, full manuscript submission due in April 2023 [no further revision required], expected to be in press at that time)
Peer reviewed journal articles:
Lee, Sangmi. Accepted for publication (March 2023). “Global Tourism and Local Ethnicity: Reconfiguring Racial and Ethnic Relations in Central Laos.” Critique of Anthropology
Lee, Sangmi. 2022. “National Differentiation and Imagined Authenticity: The Hmong New Year in Multicultural Laos and the U.S.” Ethnography (published online first) https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381221098605
Lee, Sangmi. 2021. “Traditionally Transnational: Cultural Continuity and Change in Hmong Shamanism across the Diaspora.” Ethnography 22(1): 51-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138119839086
Lee, Sangmi. 2020. “Diasporic Kinship Hegemonies: Transnational Continuities in the Hmong Diaspora.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 27(2): 229-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2018.1457347
Lee, Sangmi. 2015. “Questions from the Field: Anthropological Self-Reflexivity through the Eyes of Study Participants.” Anthropology in Action 22(3): 39-42.
Lee, Sangmi. 2012. “Dr. Freud’s Making Elizabeth Abnormal.” Humanicus: Academic Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Philosophy 7: 1-9.
Lee, Sangmi. 2009. “Searching for the Hmong People’s Ethnic Homeland and Multiple Dimensions of Transnational Longing: From the Viewpoint of the Hmong in Laos.” Hmong Studies Journal 10: 1-18.
Book chapters:
Lee, Sangmi, and Jeffrey Kassing. Forthcoming. “Introduction: Football and Diaspora.” In Jeffrey Kassing & Sangmi Lee (eds.), Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game. Routledge. (The chapter is part of the edited book volume mentioned above and the schedule for publication is the same.)
Menary, Steve, and Sangmi Lee. Forthcoming. “Football and the Emergence of Diasporas: At the Margins of Europe and Post-Soviet Conflict States.” In Jeffrey Kassing & Sangmi Lee (eds.), Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game. Routledge. (The chapter is part of the edited book volume mentioned above and the schedule for publication is the same.)
Lee, Sangmi. 2019. “Alternatives to Diasporic Return: Imagining Homelands and Temporary Visits Among Hmong Americans.” In Takeyuki Tsuda & Changzoo Song (eds.), Diasporic Return to the Ethnic Homeland: The Korean Diaspora in Comparative Perspective. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 219-238.
Courses
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SBS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
JHR 593 | Applied Project |
ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 584 | Internship |
SBS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SBS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JHR 584 | Internship |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 599 | Thesis |
SBS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
SBS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
POS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
ASB 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 599 | Thesis |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
SBS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
SBS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
POS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
ASB 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 599 | Thesis |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
POS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
SBS 447 | Citizenship, Nationalism/Ident |
2018 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |