Professor
J. A. English-Lueck
PhD - UC, Santa Barbara, 1985
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Jan English-Lueck
received her doctorate from the University of California, Santa
Barbara, studying social change and community among alternative
health practitioners. This research resulted in the book, Health
in the New Age: A Study in California Holistic Practices.
She went on to investigate visions of the future among science
and technology workers in the People's Republic and Hong Kong,
resulting in the book Chinese Intellectuals on the
World Frontier.
Since 1991 she
has been working with Chuck Darrah at San Jose State developing
the Silicon Valley Cultures Project (SVCP). In the course of
this research, she has investigated information technologies
in the homespace and workplace, and the complex dance of work,
home and community life in Silicon Valley and other global technopols.
Her new book, Cultures@SiliconValley is
now available.
She is a research
affiliate of the Institute for the Future and Professor of Anthropology
at San Jose State University.
