Amy Shuman Professor
College of Humanities
104B Mershon Center
614.292.9719
shuman.1@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Philosophy and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (1975)
M.A., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania (1978)
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania (1981)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Shuman’s specialties include folklore, ethnic identity, and critical theory. She is the author of articles on political asylum, ethnicity, conversational narrative, literacy, food customs, feminist theory and critical theory.
Selected Publications
Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century, with Carol Bohmer (Routledge, 2007)
"Producing Epistemologies of Ignorance in the Political Asylum Application Process," with Carol Bohmer (Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, forthcoming)
"Reticence and Recuperation: Addressing Discursive Responsibility in Feminist Ethnicity Research" (Journal of American Ethnic History, 2007)
Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy (University of Illinois Press, 2005)
"Representing Trauma: Political Asylum Narrative," with Carol Bohmer (Journal of American Folklore, 2004)
Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Honors and Awards
Exemplary Faculty Award, College of Humanities, The Ohio State University (2007)
Fellow, Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem (2005-06)
Guggenheim Fellow (1989-90)
Katharine Briggs Folklore Award, The Folklore Society, for Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents (1987)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1987)
Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society (1987)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Fellowship (1982-83)
Mershon Projects
Political Asylum Policy and International Security (2007-08)
Cultural Circulations (2005)
Political Asylum in the 21st Century (2003)
Ethnicity, Heritage and Migration (2000-01)
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