Helena Meyer-Knapp

I have published little autobiographical writing. For a book about Global Citizenship, to be published in 2014, I wrote an essay about gardens and gardening as one way to develop an intimate sense of more than one civic community.  I made a “work in progress” presentation “Cultivating the Moral Self: Comparing Japanese, US, English and South Korean approaches to the practice of making a garden” at the international meeting of the Association for Moral Education (Nanjing) Cultivating a Global Citizen Nanjing. The process has enabled me to bind my scholarly side which works on NE Asia to my personal love of gardening and to my work in community engagement which centers on a local non-profit GRuB.

Although I did not write it, I am including a profile of one of my recent courses — After a War – which was published in the Evergreen State College Magazine in 2011.

As a Fulbright Scholar in Korea I was invited to write two short pieces about my personal experiences in the country. Fulbright reflections was published in the Korea Fulbright Program Alumni Reminiscences issued in honor of the 60th anniversary of the program. The other was published in Infusions, the Korean program’s occasional report on scholar’s work Fulbright Infusion.

During 1994-1995 I was a Fellow at the Bunting Institute (now known as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study). As our year together was ending, Leslie Brody suggested that a number of us combine to publish a book on growing up and becoming Jewish in America. Authors included Jews by birth, Jews as converts and those who examined Jewish culture from the outside. My contribution Hybrid or Halfbreed was about Judaism and the culture of purity. The book is out of print but still available and it is called Daughters of Kings.