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Dr. Sang Hea Kil

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University

MacQuarrie Hall 513
408.924.2943
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Professor Bio

Sang Hea Kil received her doctorate degree from Arizona State University in May 2007.  She has received numerous awards for her work.  For example, she was a Future of Minority Studies Mellon Fellow (2005-6), Davis-Putter Scholar-Activist Fellow (2003-4), and Ethnic Minority Fellow for the American Society of Criminology (2001-2).

Her research focuses on the nexus between immigration and crime, media and discourse analysis, and whiteness and nationalism within a critique of racism and the social construction of USA-Mexico border. Sang has several works, published and forthcoming, single and co-authored, in such edited editions as: Traversing Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies, Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence, and such academic journals as Social Justice, and Violence against Women. 

She is also interested in pedagogy, social justice, and coalition work within a scholar-activist perspective that stems from her political work around issues of human rights, anti-globalization, women of color, and anti-war efforts.  Her interests also stems from her approach to the classroom as an activist site for critical thinking and consciousness-raising. 

Sang is currently working on her manuscript based on her dissertation entitled, "Covering the Border War: How the News Media Create Race, Crime, Nation and the USA-Mexico Divide."

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