Education:
B.A., Wuhan University, China;
M.A., Zhongshan University;
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Shanshan Lan
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
Joined Connecticut College: 2009
Specializations:
- Race and immigration, post-1965 Asian immigrants to the U.S.
- Interethnic relations among U.S. minorities (Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos)
- Class and social service
- Globalization
- Asian diaspora in North America
Shanshan Lan joined Connecticut College in 2009 as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE).
At Connecticut College, Dr. Lan will teach two courses in the 2009-2010 academic year: Asian Americans and Racialization in the United States, and Comparative Racial Formations: Asian Americans, African Americans and Latinos.
Dr. Lan was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies and Anthropology at Northwestern University (2007-2009), where she taught the following classes: Imagining Chinatown: Race, Community Building and the Construction of Differences, Multiethnic Chicago: Race, Space and Boundary Making, and Introduction to Asian American Cultures.
Dr. Lan is currently working on a book manuscript, "Is This What You Call Racial Discrimination?: Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago," which is based on a substantial revision of her doctoral dissertation. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. lan has conducted eighteen months’ ethnographic field research in Chicago’s Chinatown and Bridgeport communities, during which she participated in a wide range of community activities. She also worked and volunteered part-time for an immigrant social service agency in Chinatown for one year.
Her recent publications include:
- “Christian Universalism and U.S. Multiculturalism: An ‘Asian American’ Campus Church,” co-authored with Nancy Abelmann, Amerasia Journal, 34: 1 (2008): 65-84.
- “Race, Class and the Politics of Multicultural Learning: Chinese Immigrant Workers and the Brokered American Dream in Chicago.” City and Society, 19:2 (2007):254-286.
- “Chinese Americans in Multiracial Chicago: A Story of Overlapping Racializations.” Asian American Law Journal, 13 (2006): 31-55
Dr. Lan is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology and the Association for Asian American Studies.
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