Contributors' Notes

Adoption & Culture Vol. 6, Issue 2 (2018) Copyright © 2018 by The Ohio State University Contributors’ Notes Shannon Bae completed her Masters in sociocultural anthropology at Hanyang University, as a recipient of the Korean Government Scholarship Program. She is currently working on her doctoral degree in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor and Department Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003) and Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (NYU Press, 2013), and the co-editor of the anthology Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (Brill, 2017). Kelly Condit-Shrestha is a transnational US historian of migration, childhood, adoption, and critical race, and postdoctoral research associate in the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research explores children who are placed out, whether for economic or humanitarian rationales , as child migrants operating within transnational social, cultural, and political systems. She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Adoption and American Empire: Migration, Race-Making and the Child, 1845–1988. Kira A. Donnell is a lecturer in the Asian American Studies department at San Francisco State University and a doctoral candidate at the University of California , Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Her research looks at the ways in which the United States and South Korea have appropriated the figures of the Korean orphan and transnational adoptee in film and media to construct national narratives and identities. She traces the specter of Korean orphanhood from the Korean War to the present to understand how the trope of the orphan has haunted Korean and American culture and how it has evolved. Eleana Kim is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She has published widely on transnational adoption from South Korea in journals such as Public Culture, Anthropological Quarterly, and Journal of Korean Studies. Her ethnographic study of adult adopted Koreans, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke University Press, 2010) received book awards from the Association of Asian Studies and the Association of Asian American Studies. CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES 407 Hosu Kim is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the College of Staten Island. Her research focuses on the figure of the birth mother and offers a critical understanding of the complex array of historical backgrounds and institutional forces entrenched in the mechanism that fuels transnational adoption. More than a decade of her research culminated in the book, Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea: Virtual Mothering (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016). Mette A. E. Kim-Larsen is a Masters student at Copenhagen University in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. Her work includes a number of articles on Korean adoption and a position as a past board member and co-founder of the critical Danish adoptee organization Adoptionspolitisk Forum (Forum for Adoption Politics). Elizabeth Kopacz is a doctoral candidate in ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation work focuses on Korean adoption and the effects of DNA testing on kinship, identity, memory, and loss. James Kyung-Jin Lee is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism (U of Minnesota P, 2004) and more recently a coguest editor of a special issue of the Asian American Studies journal Amerasia on the “State of Illness and Disability in Asian America.” He is currently writing a book on the intersections of illness, medicine, narrative, and Asian American life. Kimberly McKee is the director of the Kutsche Office of Local History and an assistant professor in liberal studies at Grand Valley State University. Her monograph , Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States, interrogates the institutional practice of international adoption and adoptee activism (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2019). Kim Park Nelson is an educator and researcher whose work uses adoption as a lens to understand race and culture...