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Kimberly McKee
Associate Professor of Integrative, Intercultural, and Religious Studies Department
Grand Valley State University
Education/Degree:
1 Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Ohio State University)
About
Kimberly McKee is an associate professor in integrative, religious, and intercultural studies at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2019) and co-editor of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School (University of Illinois Press, 2020).
Current Work
Kimberly McKee is currently working on her new book project, which is under contract with Ohio State University Press as part of their “Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture Series.” The Commodification of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (tentative title) interrogates the myth of colorblindness and celebrations of multicultural adoptive families in the late 20th and early 21st-centuries. McKee explores the contours of transracial, transnational adoption’s commitments to inclusivity. This project builds on Asian American Studies and critical adoption studies scholarship that locates Asian adoption within histories of Asian America and diverse kinship formations in the United States.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Cultural, Ethnic, women's studies