Prof. Julie Chu

Professor Julie Chu of the Anthropology Department will be leaving Wellesley College at the end of this school year to go to the University of Chicago. While Professor Chu was here, she taught numerous classes including ANTH220: Identity and Community Formation: Asian American Perspectives. Beginning with Edward Said's Orientalism, this class explored racial theory through processes of "othering" abroad and within America through the eyes of the Asian-American community. Professor Chu was very helpful in working with WAA in their fight for Asian American Studies. The fund through which her position is offered, the Freeman Fund, dictates its use in the fields of East Asian and East Asian American studies. Currently, WAA is working with the chair of the anthropology department and the deans to determine the future of her position, a course of action, and places of student involvement. Hopefully, next year there will be a search for her replacement.