Name: JIALIN (Camille)
Family Name: LI
Nationality: P.R.China
Residence country:P.R.China
Organization:University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Ph.D. Candidate/Teaching Assistant
Facebook: Camille LI
Blogs: http://blog.sina.com.cn/sociologyjialin
Self-presentation:
I was born in Shanghai and am currently a third year sociology graduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago. I got my B.A. and M.A. at East China Normal University (Shanghai) with a focus on urban sociology and informal economy. I used to work as a volunteer for 1000 Peacewomen Across the Global. My potential dissertation project is to explore why pregnant women of my generation in Shanghai buy and wear radiation protection clothes. Based on it, I am interested to see the way in which pregnant women in China (and Japan) cope with vaguely-defined radiation (and real implication of radiation reactor crisis) with the help of theories of risk and danger, modernity, reproductive health and ecological justice.
I am currently preparing for my dissertation research proposal and the preliminary exam. Plus, I am taking three classes this semester: Stratification; Global Health on Women; and Mental Illness of Asian American.
My major concerns are to draw on my strengths in theory and context (sociology and/or anthropology) to contribute to/revitalize the global health agenda on the way in which women and other unprivileged people cope with risk and uncertainty in Asia.
Family Name: LI
Nationality: P.R.China
Residence country:P.R.China
Organization:University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Ph.D. Candidate/Teaching Assistant
Facebook: Camille LI
Blogs: http://blog.sina.com.cn/sociologyjialin
Self-presentation:
I was born in Shanghai and am currently a third year sociology graduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago. I got my B.A. and M.A. at East China Normal University (Shanghai) with a focus on urban sociology and informal economy. I used to work as a volunteer for 1000 Peacewomen Across the Global. My potential dissertation project is to explore why pregnant women of my generation in Shanghai buy and wear radiation protection clothes. Based on it, I am interested to see the way in which pregnant women in China (and Japan) cope with vaguely-defined radiation (and real implication of radiation reactor crisis) with the help of theories of risk and danger, modernity, reproductive health and ecological justice.
I am currently preparing for my dissertation research proposal and the preliminary exam. Plus, I am taking three classes this semester: Stratification; Global Health on Women; and Mental Illness of Asian American.
My major concerns are to draw on my strengths in theory and context (sociology and/or anthropology) to contribute to/revitalize the global health agenda on the way in which women and other unprivileged people cope with risk and uncertainty in Asia.