7 10 91 http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/WUA/files/original/f72eb6ee87ae34bb8261c90f5c85e6a2.pdf 1a385b62ea41d498437a90351c5c7cd2 PDF Text Text Tenzin Norzin 12/16/16 Professor Christoff AAS 307 The Interview Section One Person Interviewed: Dr. Alfreda Murck Interviewee’s title or position: art historian and independent scholar with a Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology Date, time, and length of interview: The interview was held on November 19, 2016 at 2 PM and lasted for forty minutes. Objective: to trace the arc of Dr. Murck’s upbringing, education, and career and to connect her life to the broader context of U.S.-Asia relations Section Two First, I conducted my research on a broad scope: I entered Dr. Murck’s name into different search engines, such as Google and YouTube, and looked through the results. This initial step led me to five important sources. The first was a brief biography of Dr. Murck posted on a Princeton University alumni board—while it did not include any biographical details, the overview of Dr. Murck’s education and career was most helpful. The second source I found was a video on YouTube of a presentation Dr. Murck gave as part of the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge. The third source I found was a short essay on Jstor from during her time working as the assistant curator of the Asian Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The fourth source was from the Stony Brook University website itself: an event description of a lecture on Mao and ‘The Sanctification of the �Mango’ that Dr. Murck gave at Charles B. Wang Center on November 5, 2014. The fifth source encompasses all the author blurbs for her book, Poetry and Painting in Song China, that I found online on Amazon, on the University of Chicago Press’s website, and on the Harvard University Press’s website. These varied sources provided different insights into Dr. Murck’s life and career. I conducted the second part of my pre-interview research on a narrow scope: I focused on the five sources I mentioned above, took notes on the information they provided, and thought about how to use that information in my questions. From the Princeton University source, I learned that Dr. Murck earned her Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton, worked at the Metropolitan Department of Art in the Asian Art department from 1978 to 1991, and lived abroad in Taiwan and China with her husband, Christian, from 1991 to 2013. During her time abroad, Dr. Murck worked as a consultant for the Forbidden City’s Palace Museum and as a teacher for Peking University’s Central Academy of Fine Arts. And from 2005 to 2013, she and the Henry Luce Foundation worked together on programs to introduce the study of Western art into China. From the YouTube video, I gained a sense of Dr. Murck’s personality and speaking style while the Jstor article, the Wang Center event description, and the author bios from her books gave a more comprehensive picture of her professional interests. Based on this research, I decided to divide my questions into three parts: her upbringing, her education, and her career. I wanted to learn more about Dr. Murck as a person but also supplement the information I found online with personal insights and experiences that I could not otherwise have heard. I prepared fifteen questions, five of which I sent to Dr. Murck before the interview so that she could prepare for them. 1. Where were you born? 2. What was your childhood or upbringing like? How did it influence the rest of your life? �3. Where did you get your undergraduate degree from and what did you study? 4. Did you always know that you wanted to study Chinese art? a. For what reasons, did you choose to go into the study of Chinese art? 5. You worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1978-1991, correct? a. What was your role at the Met and what was the experience of working there like? 6. Did you encounter many other women in your field, whether during your time in school or at the Met? 7. What aspect of your career do you most enjoy? 8. In our Women in U.S.-Asia Relations class, we briefly discussed the experience of culture shock for Asian immigrants coming into the United States. In what ways did you, as an American living abroad in China, experience culture shock? 9. What hardships did you encounter while living and working in Taiwan and China? 10. You’ve lived and worked in the United States, Taiwan, and China; what differences did you perceive between these three countries, especially between the United States and China or Taiwan and China? 11. In terms of your work with the Henry Luce Foundation, for what reasons did you choose to introduce programs on Western art to a Chinese audience? 12. How does art history, whether it is the study of Chinese art or American art, fit into the broader context of U.S.-Asia Relations? 13. To someone who might not believe in the importance of the arts, how would you explain the value of art history? �14. What advice do you have for students like me who are pursuing Art History and/or China Studies? 15. Moving forward, what else do you want to accomplish career-wise? Section Three I conducted a mixed-structure interview but prepared enough questions beforehand for a structured one, in case I was unable to come up with questions during the interview itself. I think the mixed-structure format is the best fit for this type of interview, which needs to be organized and well-thought out to meet the expectations of a college-level course but does not have the rigidity of a more formal interview like a job interview. I asked many probing questions, especially regarding her career and time abroad. For example, one of the questions I prepared before the interview was: for what reasons, did you choose to go into the study of Chinese art? Dr. Murck’s response to this question seemed to reflect that it was a decision brought about by chance rather than careful planning, so I asked her to clarify her answer. Dr. Murck did not send me any background documentation or research that needed to be looked through, not unsurprising considering that she is a very private person as I learned over the course of my research; much of the information I found online about her was regarding her career—biographical and personal details were few and far in between. I sent Dr. Murck five questions about a week before the interview, and she was well-prepared with a sheet of notes for those questions. She was engaged and lively throughout the interview, and fully answered each of my questions. This completeness as well as the thoughtfulness of her answers seems to reflect her measured, well-spoken scholarly persona. �Section Four Dr. Murck was born in Eugene, Oregon but grew up in Santa Barbara, California, where she also attended college. She credits her parents, who told her “to just do the best you can, and follow your interests, your enthusiasms,” for a “loving, nurturing” upbringing. After graduating with her undergraduate degree, Dr. Murck originally wanted to travel to Bordeaux, France to study French Impressionism but, realizing that her French language skills were not up to par and that Impressionism was what everyone else wanted to study, she applied to study in Hong Kong instead. In Hong Kong, she became captivated by Chinese culture and art; thus, a quick change of decisions and a desire “to see the world” were the foundations for her lifelong study of Chinese art history. When I asked Dr. Murck about whether she encountered many women in her field, whether at school or at work, she responded by describing her time at the Met Museum in the 1980s. She explained that, at that time, many of the docents were talented, intelligent women with expansive knowledge of art but that now “you don’t get that quality of docentry anymore” because those type of women, who were doing docent work in the 80s, now occupy high-level positions in museums and companies. She also described one of her colleagues, who had worked her way up the ladder. Although Dr. Murck did not explicitly mention that she thought women faced disadvantages in the workplace for their gender, her response, in choosing to describe hard-working women who were limited to low-level positions or who had to struggle to the top, speaks for itself. Dr. Murck also did not explicitly discuss the limitations she faced as a woman but, once again, it was expressed in the stories she told. After she and her husband married, they both applied to Harvard and Princeton; however, she was accepted to Harvard not Princeton and he to �Princeton not Harvard—after describing this, she laughingly said, “So we went to Princeton!” This story illustrates that Dr. Murck, as the wife, was expected to accompany her husband to Princeton and support him in his higher education studies while putting her own on hold. She thought that “it might be different now, that she might be more assertive, more of an independent-minded woman” but she still brushed aside the story by saying “but we had a great time and I re-applied to Princeton later.” When I asked Dr. Murck why she and her husband chose to live abroad and move to Taiwan and then to China, she described the job opportunities that were available overseas but not in America for her husband. Dr. Murck also worked while abroad but, at the same time, the reason why she and her husband moved at all was for her husband. Dr. Murck discussed how art history, as a profession, was sometimes not well-regarded during her stay in China: “sometimes, I would say I teach history, and that was okay but art history was not.” While people might dismiss the value of art history, Dr. Murck thinks art history is important because “it enhances life”—it exposes people to different cultures and allows them to gain a greater understanding of these cultures. If this is not reason enough, art history also has a valuable role within the framework of international relations; after all, “exhibitions are often turned to as a first gesture of diplomatic relations.” Countries that wish to develop good relations often will loan each other art “as a first gesture” and then progress from that point. Section Five The opportunity to hear from someone with Dr. Murck’s level of experience and understanding of art history was a meaningful one for me as an art history major myself. Over the course of the interview, I found myself drawing connections between the different parts of �her career that Dr. Murck spoke on and understanding the role of art on a greater scale. When explaining why art history matters, Dr. Murck described art as having the power to enhance life, and I could see that held true for Dr. Murck’s own life—she originally intended to study Impressionism but her decision to pursue Chinese art, motivated by her curiosity about and interest in the subject, led her to the path she is on now. She also described the diplomatic importance of art not only to divide but also to unite different groups. Consider the role of propaganda and then consider the role of programs like the one Dr. Murck worked on with the Henry Luce Foundation. To promote the study of Western art inside China, she and the Luce Foundation invited professors and experts in Western art to China and had them travel to different universities and centers giving lectures. Not only was a program in Western art motivated by the need for one but also by a desire to bridge the gap between the two fields of Western art and Chinese art through the engagement of Western art experts and Chinese audiences. I appreciated how engaged she was throughout the interview and how willing she was to share her life stories; as Professor Christoff mentioned in class, sometimes life stories are the better vehicles than hard-hitting questions for communicating different ideas. Her stories of her life as an art historian and the time she spent abroad were amazing to listen to, and also reminiscent of, as James and John mentioned in their own presentation about their interview with Carolyn L. Brehm, who works at Proctor & Gamble, the lives of the missionary women we learned about in class. They traveled abroad, often accompanying their husbands, to places and into cultures unfamiliar to them to teach the people living there. While Carolyn L. Brehm’s story and Dr. Murck’s story may be reminiscent of these women, they are also very modern stories with modern sensibilities. Thankfully, we have learned some lessons from history. *Publisher's note: Upon review of the student project, Ms. Murck requested the following addendum: "Peking University is an older and completely separate institution from the Central Academy of Fine Arts." - Alfreda Murck​ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women in US-Asian Relations Student Oral History Project Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Murck, Alfreda ; Christoff, Peggy Spitzer -- Senior Lecturer, China Studies. Director of Undergraduate Programs: Asian And Asian American Studies. Subject The topic of the resource Asian Americans--Study and teaching; Women social reformers--Asia; Women social reformers--United States; Oral history Relation A related resource AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject; AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject_2016 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted (URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/). 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Each interview consists of multiple files, including: a text document and Powerpoint slides, which were converted to PDFs for this digitization project. The project is a joint effort between the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the University Libraries. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Norzin, Tenzin Type The nature or genre of the resource text Title A name given to the resource Alfreda Murck http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/WUA/files/original/738b4447c8955bee663a95a2c8fc63d1.pptx 8134546eabf4fec76b1239aeea9329d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women in US-Asian Relations Student Oral History Project Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Christoff, Peggy Spitzer -- Senior Lecturer, China Studies. Director of Undergraduate Programs: Asian And Asian American Studies. Subject The topic of the resource Asian Americans--Study and teaching; Women social reformers--Asia; Women social reformers--United States; Oral history Relation A related resource AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject; AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject_2016 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted (URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/ppt Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context aas_2016_20170109_amurck_master Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Description An account of the resource Every fall, students at Stony Brook University in class, AAS/POL 307 (Women in US-Asian Relations), set out to interview women who are committed to enhancing US-Asian relations. Women’s contributions occur at many different levels of society and encompass a variety of occupations. In conducting oral history interviews, students prepare documentation for the Stony Brook University Melville Library’s digital collection and, in the process, acquire deep knowledge about women’s social, cultural, political, and economic roles in the United States and Asia, which includes those in Asian American communities. Each interview consists of multiple files, including: a text document and Powerpoint slides, which were converted to PDFs for this digitization project. The project is a joint effort between the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the University Libraries. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Norzin, Tenzin ; Murck, Alfreda Type The nature or genre of the resource text Title A name given to the resource Alfreda Murck http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/WUA/files/original/35666740135f5b446c2520970c0a1e8b.pdf 6e7c5493ab5634ac0d18f2bd3f53700c PDF Text Text 1 �Our interview was with Ms. Alexandra Toma, the Executive Director of the Peace and Security Funders Group, located in Washington D.C. The mission of this network is to enhance the effectiveness of philanthropy that is focused on peace and security issues. Ms. Toma, who also has experience in politics, government, and advocacy, expressed that more attention should be given to important global issues while setting politics aside. Her network aims to provide educational opportunities to members, as well as to encourage collaboration and the exchange of ideas. 2 �The questions we asked were structured to influence the information we received in a pattern of general to specific information. Our first section was loosely intended to function as a biography and explanation of her work. Our second group of three questions was constructed to understand her job and industry goals and achievements in better detail. Finally, our last section was about the future of her industry with specific regard to any advice she would want to give new women coming into her field. We were active listeners throughout our interview; all of us leaned in and nodded while she spoke, occasionally throwing in clarification or follow-up questions to ensure we had understood her and that she knew we had understood. One of the main goals of her industry is to increase government funding of philanthropic ventures, which naturally raised follow-up questions about any possible political affiliations. We learned that they work in a bipartisan manner to seek funding for charitable causes. In terms of verbal cues, we maintained a neutral pitch throughout the interview to portray that we were relaxed, but our pitch changed when we asked questions to show our interest. We maintained a normal volume and did not have to raise our 3 �voices. Both parties also resumed a steady rate of speaking. In relation to body language, we had smiles on our faces throughout the interview and tried to maintain eye contact the best we could through Skype. At times, Ms. Toma did look away which indicated that she was thinking about her responses before answering. 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women in US-Asian Relations Student Oral History Project Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Toma, Alexandra ; Christoff, Peggy Spitzer -- Senior Lecturer, China Studies. Director of Undergraduate Programs: Asian And Asian American Studies. Subject The topic of the resource Asian Americans--Study and teaching; Women social reformers--Asia; Women social reformers--United States; Oral history Relation A related resource AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject; AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject_2016 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted (URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context aas_2016_20170109_atoma_ppt_dis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Description An account of the resource Every fall, students at Stony Brook University in class, AAS/POL 307 (Women in US-Asian Relations), set out to interview women who are committed to enhancing US-Asian relations. Women’s contributions occur at many different levels of society and encompass a variety of occupations. In conducting oral history interviews, students prepare documentation for the Stony Brook University Melville Library’s digital collection and, in the process, acquire deep knowledge about women’s social, cultural, political, and economic roles in the United States and Asia, which includes those in Asian American communities. Each interview consists of multiple files, including: a text document and Powerpoint slides, which were converted to PDFs for this digitization project. The project is a joint effort between the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the University Libraries. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rubab ; Marie ; Julia Type The nature or genre of the resource text Title A name given to the resource Alexandra Toma http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/WUA/files/original/7f68d10f8794199124d670e252588e7a.pdf e568141fdec2c7633227676578c73a5b PDF Text Text Julia Cunningham 109027335 AAS- Final Project Report SECTION ONE Person interviewed: Alexandra Toma Interviewee’s title or position: Executive Director, Peace and Security Funders Group, Washington D.C Date, time, and length of interview: Monday, November 21, 2016 3:00pm Your objective in conducting this interview: To gain a better understanding of her career and how it relates to women in Asia-American relations as well as how her gender has affected her personal career trajectory. SECTION TWO Description of the pre-interview research (What did you find out prior to the interview about the person and/or place with which she is affiliated? How did you prepare for the interview?) When I received the name of the person we’d be interviewing I googled it, Alexandra Toma. This was very fruitful as it lead to her staff page at peaceandsecurity.org which gave an extensive �biography on her career and academic achievement, such as being named a “Top 99 Under 33” foreign policy leader by Diplomat Courier. I was initially struck by her impressive resume and list of achievements at such a young age, even mor so when I went through the other google search results and discovered her linkedin.com page which mentioned her prestigious list of former employers including Connect U.S. Fund and George Washington University, alongside many others. I also found an article written on her life by insidephilanthropy.com which had a plethora of information about her family history, including a small excerpt about her Romania refugee mother, her move to long island as a child, and that she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia. Additionally that she founded the Fissile Materials Working Group which focuses on policies to combat nuclear terrorism. I was also lead to a video interview by the LBJ School of Public Affairs where she spoke on her reasoning for founding the Fissile Materials Working group, as well as her personal reasons for her interest in her field, her reasoning for choosing to work in philanthropy, the methods she uses to pursue her goals, and what her organization and similar organizations need to move forward in their work. Here she put a lot of emphasis in local funding and direct contact between communities and the philanthropists. Using this information I prepared my questions for the interview, putting less emphasis on her personal life and career trajectory (as the sources I’d already been through had covered that pretty thoroughly) and planning to focus on her current career, how being a woman affected this her professionally, what her organizations goals were and how they hoped to advance their cause in the next 10 years, as well as the advice she would give the next generation of women entering the field. �List your interview questions. Rubab: Ms. Toma, we understand that you are a part of the Peace and Security Funders Group which focuses on peace and global security. Can you please tell us a little more about this network and your role as Executive Director? Follow up: We read that you also founded the Fissile Materials Working Group which aims to combat nuclear terrorism. Can you please tell us more about that? Marie: What made you want to become involved in philanthropic work? How did you start becoming concerned with peace and security issues? What do you believe is the role of the United States in the international field? Julia: After everything that the Peace and Security Funders Group has already achieved, what else do you hope this network will accomplish in the next ten years? Are there specific issues that you hope to combat next? Round 2 Questions: Rubab: Can you describe any legal or technical aspects that impede the progress of your work? How do you work around these obstacles? What do you find to be the most difficult aspect of your role in this network? �Marie: Follow up: You mentioned you work with officials in the government, and that your work on capitol Hill was often obstructed by politics, have you found one party or the other to be more receptive to certain things? Julia: If you could tell the uninformed population one thing about the Peace and Security Funders Group in order to get them involved, what would that be? What is something that you believe our generation should be more aware of in terms of international peace and security issues? Round 3 Questions: Rubab: Because our class focuses on the role that women play in US-Asian relations and the many obstacles that they face due to their sex, have there been any instances in your life where being a woman has impacted your career path? Do you believe you have had to face certain obstacles in your career due to the fact that you are a woman? Marie: Did you have any female mentors who helped you get where you are today? If not, have you have any role models in general, and what do you think about the importance such figures have in our lives? �Julia: What advice do you have for the next generation of women heading into your field, or women, in general, who hope to achieve their dreams despite the many challenges they may face? SECTION THREE Answer these questions: 1. Did you get complete answers to your questions? Explain We did, she gave very thorough answers to our questions which really helped us better understand the organization she works for, their goals, their progress, as well as how the intended to expand on their progress. She gave really insightful and practice advice on how young women are perceived in the business world and she stressed the importance of negotiating for salary to us which not only was useful to our project but practical advice none of us will forget. 2. Was your interview structured, unstructured, or mixed? I think it would definitely qualify as mixed, while we did send a list of the sort of questions we would be asking ahead of time our final list of questions were different, though similar enough that the prep for the previous list would assist in answering them, so the interviewee wasn’t totally blindsided. We asked probing questions and let the interviewee take the questions and run with it rather than a strict, question, answer, question format. Her comfort with being interviewed really assisted with that. �3. What probing questions did you use? Explain Clarifying or follow up questions to ensure we’d understood her and that she knew we had understood her. One of the main goals of her industry was to increase government funding of philanthropic ventures, which naturally raised a follow up questions about any possible political affiliations. We learned that they work bipartisan to seek funding for charitable causes. This also led her to discuss the current political climate due to the recent Trump Election, she worked to remain diplomatic in discussing it but did mention how it threw a lot of her organizations connections into uncertainty. The Clintons have already been established in politics for decades, everyone in the field pretty much knew who the useful connections would be, who would be open to discussing what, in short, how to navigate a Clinton presidency. Trump on the other hand has no political record; no one is short where the cards are going to fall and that makes progress slow when you don’t know who to talk to. 4. Explain your team approach. That is, who did what? We decided to do three rounds of questions each of us asking one question in each round, totaling nine questions. The questions we asked were structures to influence the information we received in a pattern of general to specific information. Our first section was loosely intended to function as a biography and explanation of her work. Our second groups of three questions were constructed to understand her job and industry goals and achievements in better details, how they function on a more day to day scale and how they could better �function. Finally our last section was about the future of her industry with specific regard to any advice she would want to give new women coming into her industry. 5. Did the interviewee give you any documents or references to articles to read, or did she mention other people for you to talk to (or research)? Explain She did not give us any additional documents to read though she did mention the importance of networking and making connections. She named her mentor, Nancy Soderberg, as a person who was hugely influential in shaping her career and interestingly he woman mentioned was one of the women in the panel that Rubab did her report on for class. SECTION FOUR Insert your interview notes/write up here. Remember to be accurate and concise. Consider what was said, any emerging trends your interviewee mentioned, different interpretations, and recommendations for follow up interviews. One thing she stressed was the importance of how we as young women should present ourselves as we would be harshly judged, more so than our male counterparts. The idea that younger women are less respected is something that appeared in a number of the interviews. In ours Ms. Toma said it was important to Speak professionally, avoid “like”, “Uhm”, “Ya know”s. She also mentioned when she first entered her field in an attempt to look older she started wearing make-up and glasses, cut her hair shorter in order to be taken more seriously. Additionally as a young woman minor errors, even misspeaking, is judged more hardly; you cannot mess up, when a guy makes a slip up, minor mistake or misspeak people are much more lenient with them, when a woman makes the same �mistake, particularly a young woman, people are much quicker to judge her as incompetent. Finally she stressed the importance of equal pay. Pay discrepancy real, she learned this “The hard way” when at a previous job she found she was being paid less than a male colleague with less education and less time on the job, after discovering this is was much harder for her to attain equal pay since they were so used to her being payed less. In the end this wasn’t really fixed until she got a fresh start at a new job and started negotiating her pay. She took several minutes to stress to us the important of negotiating pay. She became very informal during this part of the interview even cursing lightly for emphasis which gave the whole thing a very relaxed personal feel. Her advice was to always negotiate your salary, do research on what the average person in your position is payed, and ask for a raise every year. Her advice was though we might feel uncomfortable doing it, it was the only way to ensure equal pay because “Men aren’t uncomfortable” they do it every year, so should we. She even gave us advice on the language to use such as “I appreciate that offer” “let me think about it” “Considerate” “very generous” “What I need-/know I’m worth”. Never accept off the bat, give it 24 hours. Another piece of her advice to young women was the importance of male support for professional women, while many of her professional mentors were women all of her grad school mentors were men. Her advice was to find men who “get it” and encourage them to encourage change. One example she gave was her husband who refused to speak on all male panels, calling them “‘man’-els”. Finally she stressed, like many other interviewees the importance of networking, and told us to keep her email and if we ever thought of getting in touch to feel free. My advice to other interviewers would be, don’t be afraid to alienate you interviewee by (nonconfrontationally) asking about how current events affect their profession, everyone has an opinion and �most are willing to share. It gives a better understanding of how the world around you fits together and gives a deeper understanding of the subject at hand. SECTION FIVE (25 points) Your analysis: What aspects of the interview did you find to be particularly meaningful? What aspects were not useful? What more would you like to know? What other in-class presentations did you find particularly useful? Explain The part I found the most meaningful were when she spoke candidly on her organizations difficulties and intentions. At one point when I asked if there was anything she could tell the population at large that she felt would make her job easier or give a better understanding of her her answer was surprisingly and refreshingly frank; She told us she wished more people had a better impression of philanthropic organizations, She said the Trump Foundation, the Clinton foundation, they kind of give philanthropy a bad name. Most of them aren’t like that, most of them really are trying to help people. I had to admit the general skepticism and cynicism that seems to have affected much of the country with regard to Charity organizations was at the back of my mind as well. Hearing from someone who worked in the industry and had a much more knowledgeable position to speak on them that the majority of the cynicism was unfounded was actually really uplifting. Additionally I found her take on how the next administration is disturbing the normal routes for much of her field to be an interesting insiders take on the situation. Also when she gave us advice on how to present ourselves as young women entering professional fields I felt that held a lot of practical value that I personally intend to remember and put into use when the time comes. �There really weren’t any aspects that I found to be not be useful, she was very knowledgeable in her field and had an informed and insightful opinions on current affairs and how to walk into the professional world. If there were more I’d like to know I’d have to say that I wish I would interview her again after Trump settles in office to see how the philanthropic field has adjusted and settled. However this obvious wouldn’t be possible to have gone into at the time of the interview. Another in-class presentation I personally found very interesting and useful was Laurens presentation about her WWII Nurse Grandmother, who learned Japanese, weaving, and traveled with her husband. I thought it gave a very personal and individual example of Asian-> American relations. Specially how one American can interact with Asia and Asians in a fulfilling and respectful way. It reminded the class, I feel, that even if you’re not in a high position in the USIP or a government official or working specially in relations (The women who worked teaching cultural differences and how to communicate between different cultures for the businessmen she worked with was also a very interesting field I thought) that it is still worth knowing about how to interact respectfully with other cultures, and how knowledge of previous less successful respectful interaction can help you avoid gafs. I thought it was a good cap to the class, and put into perspective a lot of the things we learned in this course, importance of language, integrating with local culture, feeling isolated from local culture, etc. In short it reminded me of the practical advantage of having taken this course, even if none of us specifically move into international relations, what we learned in this course has practical value for a richer understanding of the world and a better chance at traveling respectfully. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women in US-Asian Relations Student Oral History Project Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. 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Each interview consists of multiple files, including: a text document and Powerpoint slides, which were converted to PDFs for this digitization project. The project is a joint effort between the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the University Libraries. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rubab ; Marie ; Julia ; Toma, Alexandra Type The nature or genre of the resource text Title A name given to the resource Alexandra Toma http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/WUA/files/original/a47c4320ca5a756a6c5f87d68ebad5fe.pptx 5595622771b422073becbc047636780a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adams, Margarethe ; Christoff, Peggy Spitzer -- Senior Lecturer, China Studies. Director of Undergraduate Programs: Asian And Asian American Studies. Subject The topic of the resource Asian Americans--Study and teaching; Women social reformers--Asia; Women social reformers--United States; Oral history Relation A related resource AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject; AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject_2015 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted (URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/). 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kelly, Melissa ; Marrero, Maria ; Paguay, Stephanie Type The nature or genre of the resource text Title A name given to the resource Julia Chang Bloch http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/WUA/files/original/e1fe85941d552ce1020dd71ce040402a.pptx b42cee1b5c83898243536c9ce1f43706 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Women in US-Asian Relations Student Oral History Project Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Chou, Jennifer ; Christoff, Peggy Spitzer -- Senior Lecturer, China Studies. Director of Undergraduate Programs: Asian And Asian American Studies. Subject The topic of the resource Asian Americans--Study and teaching; Women social reformers--Asia; Women social reformers--United States; Oral history Relation A related resource AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject; AAS_POL_307_OralHistoryProject_2015 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted (URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/). 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