Her work informs her courses on political analysis, Southeast Asian politics, and democracy and development. citizen, she returns every year to Burma – since renamed Myanmar – to do research. in 2001 and began teaching, coming to UMass Lowell in 2004. Three years later, Thawnghmung got a student visa to attend a community college in California, arriving in the United States with only $65. She became a “pig broker,” helping neighbors get their pigs butchered in exchange for money and meat. To earn money in hopes of continuing her studies abroad, Thawnghmung sold vegetables, milk and eggs door to door. However, after massive student-led protests in 1988, the military regime closed all colleges and universities.
Thawnghmung, now chair of UML’s Political Science Department, started college in 1985 in Burma. But she was more fortunate than most: Her parents were university professors, so they kept her in school. Ardeth Thawnghmung ate little meat and wore hand-me-downs.
0 kommentar(er)
