University of Illinois Chicago, IL Ph.D., Socio-cultural Anthropology – 2021

University of South Florida Tampa, FL M.A., Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies – 2007

University of Illinois Chicago, IL M.A., Socio-cultural Anthropology - 2001

Northwestern University Evanston, IL B.S., Human Communication Sciences - 1992

SELECTED PAPERS, POSTERS, AND LECTURES

N.d. in press Kang, Ellen, “Black Ecofeminism on Chicago’s West Side:  Resisting the  Structural Violence of Racialized Food Access through Community Gardening.”  In Social Justice Research Collaborative.  Champaign, IL:  University of Illinois Press.

N.d. in progress Han, Eun-Jeong and Kang, Ellen, “Korean Student Achievement.”  In Oxford Research Encyclopedia (Race and Education).  Paula Groves Price, ed.   Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

2019 Kang, Ellen, “The Resurgence of ‘Small Agriculture’:  Food Deserts, Urban Farming,  and Sustainable Communities”.  Invited lecture for IDIS 280 Confronting  Inequality/Achieving Sustainability, Salisbury University, Maryland.

2017 Kang, Ellen, “The Non-profit Community Gardeners Market in a Chicago Food  Desert:  Resisting Racialized Food Access and Capitalistic Alienation”.  Paper  presented at the Association for Humanist Sociology Conference, Havana, Cuba.

2016 Kang, Ellen, “The Food Desert and the Non-profit Gardeners Market:  How  Community Gardeners in Chicago Respond to Uneven Development”.  Paper  presented at Solidarit(i)és Canadian Anthropology Society & Society for the  Anthropology of North America conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.