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Michael Strickland
 Graduate Trainee - AnthropologyAdvisor: Professor Yungxiang Yan Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2005 Undergraduate School/Major:New York University/Anthropology and East Asian Studies Email:  Research: My current research concerns youths' close peer relationships in mainland China, including forms of friendship and fictive kinship. I am especially interested in questions of how these relationships are evolving in the face of China's rapid social change, and how they interact with other types of interpersonal relations. My recent work has focused on the intersection between emotion and intimacy with practices of material support among peers, and how their concrete interactions with one another are shaped and evaluated against the political economic context. For my future research, I am also pursuing the issues of how forms of support between peers compare to those received from family, how their relations have been impacted by growing wealth and class differences, and how their peer relations change as they move into adulthood. Publications and conference presentations: Honors and awards: UCLA Department of Anthropology Graduate Fellowship, 2005 "C 06 UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant 2006 UCLA East Asia FLAS Fellowship, 2006 "C 07 NYU East Asian Studies Scholarship, 2003 "C 04 New York University Presidential Scholarship, 2001 "C 04 Phi Beta Kappa, 2004 Current hobbies, interests, extracurricular activities: |
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