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Rec Letter Policy

Sasha Su-Ling Welland
Assistant Professor
Anthropology & Women Studies

University of Washington
Box 354345
Seattle, WA 98195-4345

swelland@u.washington.edu
phone: 206.221.4725
fax: 206.685.9555

Fall 2009: On Leave
Office hours to resume in Winter
Padelford B-110P

Sasha Su-Ling Welland
MA (1998); PhD (2006) Anthropology, University of California-Santa Cruz

Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas

China/East Asia, Asian America, gender, visual culture

My current research project, Experimental Beijing: Contemporary Art Worlds in China’s Capital, examines the social role of visual art and competing ideas of aesthetic, cultural, and market value in reform-era China, with a particular focus on how gender shapes Chinese contemporary art worlds. This research reflects my larger concerns with how various forms of cultural expression, visual and narrative, shape social categories, such as gender, ethnicity, race, national identity, and class; and how these cultural forms are deeply enmeshed in social, political, and economic relations and struggles. I am interested in scholarship that incorporates visual and textual forms of production and in collaborations that can extend such scholarship to public audiences, such as exhibitions, film festivals, and literary events.

Recent Publications

"Ocean Paradise," Journal of Visual Culture 6(3): 419-435. (pdf)

A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

“What Women Will Have Been: Reassessing Feminist Cultural Production in China,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(4): 941-66. (pdf)

“On Curating Cruel/Loving Bodies,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3(2): 17-36. (Cruel/Loving Bodies exhibit archive)

“The Long March to Lugu Lake: A Dialogue with Judy Chicago,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1(3): 69-75.

“Traveling Artists, Traveling Art, Ethnographic Luggage,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1(2): 4-12.

My writing has also appeared in Chain, ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action, Flyway Literary Review and The Hedgebrook Journal, as well as in Pacific News Service.

Recommendation Letter Requests

My policy is to ask that students requesting letters of recommendation provide me with the following:

1. At least two weeks notice before the application deadline.

2. A summary of the program you are applying to and of your interest in it. How does it complement and/or extend your previous studies (especially your coursework with me) and relate to your future plans? If you will submit a statement of purpose as part of your application, please give me a copy, even if it is only in draft form at the time you request the letter.

3. If it has been a while since you had a class with me, a sample of your work in the class.

4. A resume with your educational and work/professional background, accomplishments, and interests. Please highlight anything in particular that you believe I can speak to that your other letter writers might not be able to address.

5. A copy of any necessary forms, clear indication of the deadline, and a stamped, addressed envelope or clear instructions for other methods of submission.

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Last Updated:
03/23/09

Contact the instructor at: swelland@u.washington.edu

Anthropology Home Page ANTH 429: Expressive Culture ANTH 442/SISA 442/WOMEN 446: Global Asia ANTH 469/SISEA 490: Rural-Urban Encounters in China Women Studies Home Page WOMEN 305: Feminism in an International Context WOMEN/AES 322: Race, Class, and Gender WOMEN 503: Feminist Research & Methods of Inquiry China Studies Program Visual Praxis Collective Rec Letter Policy	Sasha Su-Ling Welland Assistant Professor Anthropology & Women Studies
	University of Washington Box 354345 Seattle, WA 98195-4345 swelland@u.washington.edu phone: 206.221.4725 fax: 206.685.9555 Fall 2009: On Leave Office hours to resume in Winter Padelford B-110P
	Sasha Su-Ling Welland MA (1998); PhD (2006) Anthropology, University of California-Santa Cruz Curriculum Vitae Research Areas China/East Asia, Asian America, gender, visual culture My current research project, Experimental Beijing: Contemporary Art Worlds in China’s Capital, examines the social role of visual art and competing ideas of aesthetic, cultural, and market value in reform-era China, with a particular focus on how gender shapes Chinese contemporary art worlds. This research reflects my larger concerns with how various forms of cultural expression, visual and narrative, shape social categories, such as gender, ethnicity, race, national identity, and class; and how these cultural forms are deeply enmeshed in social, political, and economic relations and struggles. I am interested in scholarship that incorporates visual and textual forms of production and in collaborations that can extend such scholarship to public audiences, such as exhibitions, film festivals, and literary events. Recent Publications "Ocean Paradise," Journal of Visual Culture 6(3): 419-435. (pdf) A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. “What Women Will Have Been: Reassessing Feminist Cultural Production in China,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(4): 941-66. (pdf) “On Curating Cruel/Loving Bodies,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3(2): 17-36. (Cruel/Loving Bodies exhibit archive) “The Long March to Lugu Lake: A Dialogue with Judy Chicago,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1(3): 69-75. “Traveling Artists, Traveling Art, Ethnographic Luggage,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1(2): 4-12. My writing has also appeared in Chain, ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action, Flyway Literary Review and The Hedgebrook Journal, as well as in Pacific News Service.
	Recommendation Letter Requests My policy is to ask that students requesting letters of recommendation provide me with the following: 1. At least two weeks notice before the application deadline. 2. A summary of the program you are applying to and of your interest in it. How does it complement and/or extend your previous studies (especially your coursework with me) and relate to your future plans? If you will submit a statement of purpose as part of your application, please give me a copy, even if it is only in draft form at the time you request the letter. 3. If it has been a while since you had a class with me, a sample of your work in the class. 4. A resume with your educational and work/professional background, accomplishments, and interests. Please highlight anything in particular that you believe I can speak to that your other letter writers might not be able to address. 5. A copy of any necessary forms, clear indication of the deadline, and a stamped, addressed envelope or clear instructions for other methods of submission.

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