Join us to meet local author Sara Docan-Morgan and learn about her new book In Reunion. There will be a Q&A session, her book will be on hand to purchase, and all are welcome! We’d love to see you!

Sara Docan-Morgan (she/her) (PhD, University of Washington) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Her research focuses on how personal and identities are formed and negotiated through messages in both adoptive and birth families. Her work has been published in scholarly articles and book chapters. She is a former Fulbright scholar to South Korea, an award-winning teacher, and a co-organizer of the International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies. She lives with her family in La Crescent, MN.

In In Reunion, professor of communication studies Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Denmark, as well as her own experiences as an adoptee, Docan-Morgan illuminates the complexities of communication surrounding reunion.