Bio -- Charles Neil Darrah

book draft	Busy Bodies (working title). With J.A. English-Lueck and J.M. Freeman.
In progress	Remaking Everyday Life: The Hidden Innovations of Silicon Valley. With J.M. Freeman.
2004 (in press)	"Family Making and Busyness: Ritual Performances as Accompaniments to Everyday Life." With J.A. English-Lueck and J. Freeman. Chapter to be included in Bradd Shore's edited volume on Ritual in American Families that Work.
2003 (in press)	“Silicon Valley.” In K. Christensen and D. Levinson, Eds. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2003	“Anthropology, Ethnography and the Thesis of a Workplace/ Workforce Mismatch.” Work, Family, Health and Well-Being Conference. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research of the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Child Care Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families. Washington, D.C., June 16-18, 2003.
2003	Commentary: “Shock-Absorbing and Sense-Making: American Families and a Public Anthropology.” Anthropology News, 44(2): 12. With J.A. English-Lueck and J.M. Freeman.
2002	“Anthropologists and Middle Class Working Families: Framing the Context of Inquiry.” American Anthropological Association annual meeting. New Orleans (November 20, 2003). With J. A. English-Lueck and J. M. Freeman.
2002	“Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships in Four High-Tech Communities.” Information, Communication & Society. 5 (1) 2002: 90-108. With J.A. English-Lueck and A. Saveri, an invited and refereed article.
2002	“‘We’re This Kind of Family’: Creating the Good Family in Busy Times.” Paper delivered at “Families that Work,” a Sloan Network Conference. (May).
2002	“Creating Culture in Dual Career Families.” Paper presented at “Persons, Processes and Places: Research on Families, Workplace and Communities” a research conference sponsored by the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, the Center for Families at Purdue University, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (February). With J.A.English-Lueck and J.M. Freeman.
2001	“Families and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families.” Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (July). With J.A. English-Lueck. and J.M. Freeman
2001	“Students, Technology and Everyday Life.” A Report Prepared for Junior Achievement of Santa Clara County and the Institute for the Future. With Burch, K., Campos, C., Diaz, A., Dubois, B., Elwell, M., Esqueda, I., Gebet-Luetz, C., McCuistion, M., Medici-Rivas, F., Nitschke, E., Stayskal, T., Trenary, T, and Winship, C. (March).
2001	“Techno-Missionaries Doing Good at the Center.” Anthropology of Work Review. Spring Edition 22 (1): 4-7
2001	“Silicon Valley Cultures Project.” Presentation to Xerox PARC Forum. With J.A. English-Lueck. and J.M. Freeman (Febuarary)
2000	“Techno-Missionaries Doing Good at the Center.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA.
2000	“Living in the Eye of the Storm: Controlling the Maelstrom in Silicon Valley.” Paper presented at Work and Family: Expanding the Horizons Conference. Sponsored by The Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, The Center for Working Families at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. San Francisco, CA. With J.A. English-Lueck. and J.M. Freeman
2000	Chapter reproduction: “Living with Technology,” with J.A. English-Lueck and J.M. Freeman. In Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Research Agenda. Edited by M.M. Overbey and K.M. Dudley. Washington D.C., American Anthropological Association. Originally in the American Anthropologist Newsletter in December 1998.
2000	“Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.” Update for Sloan Program on Working Families for 2001 Families and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families Project. C.N. Darrah, primary author, with J.A. English-Lueck and J.M. Freeman. September.
2000	“Report to the National Science Foundation on Work, Identity and Community in Silicon Valley, Award #9810593.” Described project activities and findings for a community-wide ethnographic study of Silicon Valley. J.A. English-Lueck, primary author, with C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman.
2000	“The Daily Tool Kit in Silicon Valley.” Presentation to The Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. With J.A. English-Lueck. and J.M. Freeman (April).
1999	“Internet Based Training in Context.” In Competence without Credentials. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
1999	“Silicon Connections: Tales of Family and Work from Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Dublin and Taipei.” Paper presented at Society for Philosophy and Technology annual meeting. San Jose, CA. With J.A. English-Lueck.
1999	“Temping at the Lower End: An Incomplete View from Silicon Valley.” MIT Task Force on Reconstructing America’s Labor Market Institutions Working Paper.
1998	“Living with Technology.” Anthropology Newsletter, December 39(9): 1, 4. With J.A. English-Lueck. and J.M. Freeman
1998	“Knowledge Management in the Big Company Town.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
1997	“The infomated households project.” In Practicing Anthropology. 19(4) 18-22. With J.A. English-Lueck. and A. Saveri. (Fall).
1997	“Complicating the concept of skill requirements: Scenes from a workplace.” In G. Hull, Ed., Critical perspectives on language, literacy, and skills: Voices from the classroom and the shop floor. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
1996	“Silicon Valley Worldviews: A Report to Smart Valley,” with J.A. English-Lueck
1996	“Community and Collaboration in a Value-Added Valley.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20, 1996.
1996	“Silicon Valley Worldviews: A Report to Smart Valley.” Report summarizing findings of ethnographic futures research interviews conducted with Smart Valley. With J.A. English-Lueck, Matthew Albrecht, Rosemary Borelli, Laura Brown, Mark Campbell, Mary Cashion, Rachel Caso, Brendon Clark, Gina Diaz, Bonnie Evans, Elan Finch, Nicole Materne, Mara McCrystal, Eric Metz, Kenji Nimura, Beverly Pevarnick, Naftoli Pickard, Eman Saad, Jason Scatena, Neil Smith, Kristy Sorensen, and Amy Sujishi. (March)
1996	Learning and work: An exploration in industrial ethnography. New York: Garland Publishing.
1995	“Techno-Guanxi: Connecting Relationships and Icons Through Technology.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
1995	“Workplace training, workplace learning: A case study.” Human Organization, on, 54(1) 31-41.
1994	“Skill requirements at work: Rhetoric versus reality.” Work and Occupations, 21(1) 64-84.
1993	“Surviving Silicon Valley.” Paper presented at Southwestern Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
1992	“Workplace skills in context.” Human Organization, 51(3) 264-273.