[Linganth] Fwd: 回复：Kind query about becoming a Visiting Scholar in your group

Wed Jul 31 04:42:15 UTC 2024

This young Chinese scholar wants to study a Latino community in the
usa...requests an invite letter...no funds... .
Please let him know if you can help or have a suggestion?
Gracias..ana c

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*From:* nicoliang123 at 163.com <nicoliang123 at 163.com>
*Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2024 11:01:30 PM
*To:* Zentella, Ana <azentella at ucsd.edu>
*Subject:* 回复：Kind query about becoming a Visiting Scholar in your group

Dear Profesor Ana Celia Zentella，

First of all, I appreciate you so much for your reply and encouragement.
You know in China there isn't so many Scholars who study Latino questions
and collect firsthand information in a way of participant observation. So
what I can acquire for academic support is limited in China. That's why I
send email to you for an opportunity of studying what American Scholars are
doing around the Latino/x topic and finding and doing in the next step my
fieldwork during the stay in America.

During Sep 2018 to Jan 2019, I was invited by UMASS-BOSTON as an visiting
student to do my field work of my Master Thesis. At that time, I was lucky
to make friends (o sea hermanos y hermanas) in Congregation lion of Judah
in the South End of Boston City. Under the trust and love of Latino
Immigrants (Majority is from Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic which
shares the same island with Haiti), I could advance my fieldwork of
Anthropology and find the relation between Latino's multi-identity with
their Language and Belief. I was impressed by their passion to this unitied
ethnic group and the positive attitude to live better in the America. So I
decided to come back keeping staying close to them and doing my fieldwork
in a latino community another time to study their Identity question as my
topic of Doctoral Thesis.

Concerning about my futural 10 months fieldwork in USA. Theoretically, I
want to dialog about ethnic boundary theory and constructivism. Like
Fredrik Barth regards the ethnic as a social organization of culture
difference, people self-choose their identity based on the sense of
belonging. Also including what Benedict  Anderson says in his book of
Imagined Communities that a nation could be seen as an imagined political
community.  As far as I think, Latino this word could also be constructed
by a political motivation to enhance the political influence based on the
large latinos immigrants population regardless of their dozens of
motherlands and different cultures. While, the common spanish language and
its culture inside plus powerful American core value could unity them too.
In practice, I plan to do my participant observation in a latino community
or organization, church, congregation etc as volunteer or others to do my
favor to let Latinos community better and doing my research at the sametime.

so with all my respect, I'm wondering if you or other professors who can
give me a favor of sending an invitation letter of university and
introducing me to do volunteers in a Latino community. As I did my field
work in Boston, so I wish to change anothe place, that's why I ask for
favor through this method. I'll be so appreciate for it if you can help me
or just give me a clue.
Thanks a lot.

With all my best wishs,

Nicolas
(Zhengyi ZHOU) https://namedrop.io/zhengyizhou
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BTW, its difficult to pronounce my Chinese name. ZHOU is my last name.

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发件人： "Zentella, Ana" <azentella at ucsd.edu>
日期： 2024年7月27日周六 早上8:27
收件人： 周郑怡 <nicoliang123 at 163.com>
主 题： Re: Kind query about becoming a Visiting Scholar in your group

Dear Nicolas,, [Although I think you should add the (hear name) link that
is in red, after my name, below, for your real name].. [By the way, i think
your study was OF, not ON?]

  I congratulate you for tackling important new topics in distant countries
and different Latinu groups.. And, I think you studied people from the
DOMINICAN REpublic, not the  Republic of Dominicana? [confusing because
there actually is a republic name DOMINICA in the Caribbean-- or is that
what you mean?].

   Unfortunately, I am not in a position to mentor you here in California,
since I am no longer an active faculty member, and my own deadlines and
projects don't allow for much free time. If you let me know exactly what
you were hoping to study in the USA , I might be able to suggest faculty
you could contact.
   You are certainly deserving of support, and I hope you are successful in
your efforts.
Sincerely,

Ana Celia Zentella  (hear name
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)
Professor Emerita
UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies

https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/people/zentella.html

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Award 2023   *

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*From:* 周郑怡 <nicoliang123 at 163.com>
*Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2024 7:13 AM
*To:* Zentella, Ana <azentella at ucsd.edu>
*Subject:* Kind query about becoming a Visiting Scholar in your group

Dear Professor. Zentella,

I hope this email finds you well. This is Zhengyi Zhou (Please feel free to
call me Nicolas), a first year doctoral student from Beijing Normal
University (China), majoring in Anthropology. I am writing to apply for a
10 Months visiting Ph.D. student position from Nov. 2024 to Sep. 2025.
After one year of study, I will come back to Beijing Normal Universit to
accomplish my Ph.D. degree.

My research interests have been focused on Latino immigrant and its
culture, identity, social integration. As a student of Anthropology (Master
and Doctor) and Spanish (undergraduate), I have received a series of
courses in Anthropology, Sociology and Spanish Language and Literature, and
got excellent results in all of them. I completed my fieldwork for master's
thesis in Boston, MA, which was about a Latino congregation and the
construction of its members’ multiple identity, the majority people is from
Puerto Rico and Republic of Dominicana. I also participated in some related
research projects, which equipped me with the ability to write project
applications and research reports. (Pls Check my CV and Abstract of Papers
in the attachment).

My own research has focused on Latino’s Identity. For example, My master’s
thesis is about the Latino’s identity on the base of symbolical and sacred
construction. I believe our shared interest in Latino’s culture would lead
to fruitful collaboration and study,

I would be honored to have the opportunity to work with you and contribute
to the exciting research being done at your team. Please find my CV and
research proposal attached. I look forward to your reply and welcome
further discussion.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best regards,

Zhengyi Zhou
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