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 University of Oxford, U.K. Her research examines 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, ethnic return migration, nationalism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, globalization, global tourism, ethnographic methods, the Korean and the Hmong diasporas, Asian American Studies, Asia (South Korea), Southeast Asia (Laos), United States
Books:
Lee, Sangmi. 2024 (February). Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora. University of Illinois Press (278 pages).
Kassing, Jeffrey, & Sangmi Lee (eds.). 2024. Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game. Routledge (206 pages).
Peer reviewed journal articles:
Lee, Sangmi. 2024. “Global Tourism and Local Ethnicity: Reconfiguring Racial and Ethnic Relations in Central Laos.” Critique of Anthropology 44(1): 3-20.
Lee, Sangmi. 2022. “National Differentiation and Imagined Authenticity: The Hmong New Year in Multicultural Laos and the U.S.” Ethnography (published online first).
Lee, Sangmi. 2021. “Traditionally Transnational: Cultural Continuity and Change in Hmong Shamanism across the Diaspora.” Ethnography 22(1): 51-69.
Lee, Sangmi. 2020. “Diasporic Kinship Hegemonies: Transnational Continuities in the Hmong Diaspora.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 27(2): 229-247.
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. 2024. “Football and Diaspora: A Theoretical Framework.” In Jeffrey Kassing & Sangmi Lee (eds.), Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game. Routledge, pp. 5-23.
Menary, Steve, and Sangmi Lee. 2024. “Football and the Emergence of Diasporas: Representing Post-Soviet Conflict States Beyond Europe.” In Jeffrey Kassing & Sangmi Lee (eds.), Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game. Routledge, pp. 155-172.
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
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
JHR 593 | Applied Project |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 592 | Research |
ASB 340 | Migration and Culture |
SOC 328 | Migration and Culture |
SBS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 590 | Reading and Conference |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
ASB 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
POS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
SBS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
SBS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SBS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 340 | Migration and Culture |
ASB 340 | Migration and Culture |
SOC 328 | Migration and Culture |
SOC 328 | Migration and Culture |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
JHR 593 | Applied Project |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
JHR 592 | Research |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
SBS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JHR 592 | Research |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
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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ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
ASB 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
POS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
SBS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
SBS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
ASB 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
POS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
SBS 447 | Citizenship/Natlism/Identity |
JHR 598 | Special Topics |
SBS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
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 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SBS 302 | Qualitative Methods |
JHR 599 | Thesis |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 102 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |