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East Asia, social class, urban anthropology, schooling, mobility<\/span><\/p>\n Attyat May\u00e1ns is a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at Boston University. Her dissertation work engages the idealized trajectories of individuals in urban China and Mongolia towards perceived middle-class belonging. <\/span>She is broadly interested in the impacts of the globalization and commercialization of schooling as educational systems expand and economies grow throughout East Asia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n May\u00e1ns holds a B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a Certificate in Child and Family Policy from Duke University, where she graduated with highest distinction. At Duke, May\u00e1ns was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and received a four-year full merit scholarship as one of twelve University Scholars supported by the William H. Gates Foundation. Her B.A. honors thesis, under the direction of Dr. Eileen C. Chow, traced the history of the study-abroad movement in China and its links to the creation of a \u201cmodern\u201d educational system and sustained national development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Upon matriculating at BU, May\u00e1ns received a <\/span>U.S. Fulbright student research grant to conduct a one-year project at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Her Fulbright project engaged with the experiences of senior high school students in their plan to enter into college in China or abroad. She examined how this decision-making was navigated and supported by distinct pedagogies to which students in two separate cohorts are exposed along with the role of English in the classroom, and together how these elements shape Chinese public education in a globalized world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to her academic work at BU, May\u00e1ns supports various educational organizations <\/span>in East Asia and the United States as an advisor and instructor. These include the Reach the World Foundation, where she has worked with classrooms in New York and Michigan, the Taiyanghua Community Center in Shanghai, China, the Zorig Foundation in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, a nonprofit community center and museum space serving her birthplace of Northern New Mexico. Her visual field notes, photographic documentations of the urban experience during research, have been featured in the inaugural issue of <\/span>Beans and Rice Magazine<\/span><\/i>, a collaboration by students at the University of New Mexico and Seattle University, and can also be explored at imagenesmayans.com.<\/span><\/p>\nAbout<\/h3>\n
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