Department of Anthropology: University of Rochester

2007	Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University Dissertation: “Remembering Loss: The Cultural Politics of Overseas Adoption from South Korea”
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