Sonia Ryang
Associate Professor and
International Studies C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and the Korea Foundation Scholar of Korean Studies
Office: 215 Macbride Hall
Phone: (319) 384-3255
sonia-ryang@uiowa.edu
- Selected Publications/Projects (PDF)
- Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Background:
My intellectual background is British Social Anthropology. Having earned Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, I worked as a Research Fellow in the Australian National University, prior to taking up my appointment in the Johns Hopkins University, where I taught for nine years before coming to University of Iowa.
My doctorate and many subsequent research projects dealt with Korean diasporic community in Japan. At the same time, my research horizons have expanded, covering a wider ranging issues including intellectual history of Japan anthropology in the west, the anthropology of (romantic) love, the notion of the sacred (as in the play, games, and war), explorations in sanctuary, the camp, and the total institution, disability studies, and ideas of life and death and in between in the age of terror, war, and injustice on one hand, and global warming on the other.
I am currently completing a book on gender, self, and diaspora, while starting a new project on totalitarianism and North Korea. I also have a mini research plan on exploring the notion and practice of play as the sacred, with the focus on how children with disability are accommodated without disrupting the rules.
Courses Taught: Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems The Anthropology of Love Korean Diaspora in the World Disability and the Ethics of Care Ethnography and Auto/Biography Do Japanese Exist? American Anthropology and Japan |
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