National Differentiation and Imagined Authenticity - Talk by Professor Lee

Sangmi Lee is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She received her D.Phil. in anthropology in 2016 from the institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) at the University of Oxford, U.K. Her current research examines on how Hmong living in the diaspora have maintained extensive kinship networks and various cultural and economic practices across national borders whilesimultaneously experiencing discursive cultural fragmentation based on their national differences. For this project, she conducted comparative, long-termethnographic fieldwork with the Hmong communities in central Laos and the United States (California).