Dr.
J. A. English-Lueck
Click name for full vita
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Professor
Department Chair
Department of Anthropology
San José State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0113
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Office Phone (408) 924-5347
Fax (408) 924-5348
e-mail jenglish@email.sjsu.edu
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Education
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| Ph D |
1985 |
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University of California, Santa Barbara |
Anthropology |
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| M A |
1978 |
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University of California, Santa Barbara |
Anthropology |
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| B A |
1976 |
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California State University, Fresno |
Anthropology |
Summa cum Laude |
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Present Research
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| 1991- Present
Silicon Valley
New Zealand
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Collaborative research with Drs. Darrah and Freeman concerning
work, family, ethnicity, identity, dynamics of living in corporate, technological
community. |
| 2003 - Present |
Future of medical beliefs and practices, in collaboration with
the Institute for the Future. |
| 1998 - Present
Silicon Valley
Taiwan
Ireland
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Impact of emerging technology on global workers. |
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Scholarly Interests
Cultural Futures, Cultural Innovations and Identities
In a plural society, people with diverse cultural
values interact in ways that illuminate different cultural templates,
and create new ones. I chart the processes of cultural innovation
and identity creation.
The Cultural Context of Science and Technology Within the Pacific
Rim
Science and technological work exists within larger
cultural frameworks. I explore the connections between specialized
work and parental communities in China, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Taiwan, New Zealand/Australia and California, the Pacific Rim
of the United States.
Work,
Family and Community
Cultural futures, cultural innovation and
technology work are enacted in everyday life in the domains
of work, family and community.
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Previous Research and Fieldwork
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| 2003 - present |
USA
The future of medical beliefs and practices in Silicon
Valley, in
collaboration the Institute for the Future. |
| 2002 |
New Zealand
Collaborative work in progress and planned for
centers of
knowledge-based innovation in New Zealand.
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| 2001 -2002 |
USA Impact of emerging technology on teenage
networks in in four
cultures (Silicon Valley, England, Sweden and Japan),
in collaboration Dr.
Darrah and the Institute for the Future. |
| 1998 -2001
• Silicon Valley
• Taiwan
• Ireland |
USA
Impact of emerging technology on global workers,
in
collaboration Dr. Darrah and the Institute for
the Future.
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| 1993 - 1994 |
Hong Kong Urban fieldwork examining
the concepts of identity, work values and work
organization in companies with connections to
Silicon Valley. |
| 1988 - 1990 |
China Fieldwork in urban China, Sichuan
Province on the perceptions of educational, scientific
and cultural futures among Chinese intellectuals. |
| 1986 |
USA Ethnographic futures research among
midwives, relating to issues of professionalism
and ideology. |
| 1979 - 1981 |
USA Extended participant-observation,
life histories and ethnographic futures research
with the community of holistic health practitioners,
especially apprentices; special focus on holistic health as a
social movement. |
| 1979 |
Netherlands Library and archival research
on Dutch health care in historic Suriname. [Spring] |
| 1977 |
Suriname Focus on the changes in health
care among the Kwinti Afro-American tribe of
maroons. [Summer] |
| 1975 - 1982 |
USA (California Sierra, Central Coast)
archaeology, Crew Chief, Forest archaeologist
and archaeological technician. |
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Honors, Awards, Appointments and Grants
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| 2004 |
Outstanding Professor. San Jose State University. Presidential
Teaching Award. |
| 2004 |
Austen Warburton Award for Scholarship. College of Social Sciences.
San Jose State University. |
| 2003 - 2004 |
President-elect and Program Chair,
Southwestern Anthropological Association |
| 2002–2003 |
Competitive Faculty Development Grant (with Dr. Darrah),
Lottery Funds Travel Grant. |
| 2002 |
California State University Social Science Research Grant and
Competitive Faculty Development Grant. |
| 2001 |
Presidential Award, Faculty Merit
for service to the university. |
| 2000 |
Presidential Award, Faculty Merit,
for Silicon Valley Cultures Project |
June 1999-
present |
Member, American Anthropological Association Awards Advisory
Committee on the Robert Textor Prize for scholarship in anticipatory
anthropology. |
Spring 1998-
present |
Northern California Representative, Board Member, Southwestern
Anthropological Association. |
| Spring 1999 |
Sabbatical Leave granted for research and writing on the Silicon
Valley Cultures Project. |
August 1998-
August 2001 |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. Co-author
(with J.M. Freeman, primary author C.N. Darrah), $342,801.
“Families and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families
in Silicon Valley.” |
August 1998-
February 2000 |
National Science Foundation grant. Primary author (co-authored
with C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman), $49, 984. “Work,
Identity and Community in Silicon Valley.” |
| 1998 |
Ford Foundation/COSSA grant. |
| 1998 |
Phi Kappa Phi. |
| 1997 - 1998 |
Faculty-in-Residence, Institute for Teaching and Learning, SJSU.
Administration and Research on Cultural Diversity in the University. |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Performance Award (PSSI). |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Teacher-Scholar representing College of Social Science, SJSU. |
| 1996 |
Made Research Affiliate for the Institute for the Future,
Menlo Park. |
| 1995 - 2002 |
Fulbright Liaison for San José State University. |
| 1993 - 1995 |
Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological
Association, Chair of Committee 11, the 21 Committee for the Study
of Cultural and Educational Futures. Committee co-chair with Reed
Riner. |
| 1993 - 1994 |
Fulbright Teaching-Research Grant for the University of Hong
Kong. |
| 1991 |
Competitive CSU Research Grant Summer Stipend for Research or
Scholarly Activity. |
| 1991 |
East-West Center Award for Summer Workshop on developing intercultural
curricula, Honolulu, HI. |
| 1989 - 1990 |
Model Teacher, second place, Chengdu University of Science and
Technology, P.R. China. |
1985 - 1987,
1990 - 1992 |
Program chair for Anthropology and Education Futures symposia. |
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Publications, Papers and Reports
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| book draft |
Busy Bodies (working title). With C.N. Darrah
and J.M. Freeman |
| 2004 (submitted) |
"Rites of Production: Technopoles and the Theater of Work."
Submitted to Anthropology of Work Review. |
| 2004 (in press) |
"Family Making and Busyness: Ritual Performances as Accompaniments
to Everyday Life." With C. Darrah and J. Freeman. Chapter
to be included in Bradd Shore's edited volume on Ritual in American
Families that Work. |
| 2004 |
"Reinventing Therapeutic Expectations
in Silicon Valley." Southwestern Anthropological Association.
San Jose. |
| 2003 |
"Number Eight Fencing Wire: New
Zealand, Cultural Innovation and the Global Silicon Network,"
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago. |
| 2003 |
Contributed to "Personal Health Ecologies and Strategies
for Health Management." with Erika Jackson and Leah Cook.
Rod Falcon and Leah Spaulding, authors. Institute for the Future
Publication SR-815. |
| 2003 |
Emerging Global Cultures. Pearson Custom Publishing.
Edited with S. Cate, K. Fjelstad, R. Gonzalez, W. Reckmeyer. |
| 2003 |
“Secrets of Silicon Valley” Visual Review. Anthropology
of Work Review. |
| 2003 |
Commentary: “Shock-Absorbing and Sense-Making: American
Families and a Public Anthropology.” Anthropology News,
44(2): 12. With C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman. |
| 2003 |
“Success
and Survival in Silicon Valley, An Ethnography of Learning Networks.”
feature article for Center for Educational Planning Santa Clara
County Office of Education, with S. Valade, S. Swiger, and G.
Narvaez. Educational Outlook, Spring 8(2): 1-7. |
| 2002 |
“Success
and Survival in Silicon Valley, An Ethnography of Learning Networks.”
excerpts from a report to the Center for Educational Planning
Santa Clara County Office of Education, with S. Valade, S. Swiger,
and G. Narvaez. Educational Outlook, Spring 7(3): 4. |
| 2002 |
“Success
and Survival in Silicon Valley, An Ethnography of Learning Networks.”
with S. Valade, S. Swiger, and G. Narvaez. Center for Educational
Planning Newsletter. A Report to the Center for Educational
Planning Santa Clara County Office of Education. |
| 2002 |
“Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships in Four High-Tech
Communities.” Information,
Communication & Society. 5 (1) 2002: 90-108. With
A. Saveri and C.N. Darrah, an invited and refereed article. |
| 2002 |
Cultures@SiliconValley.
Stanford University Press. (March). |
| 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 C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman |
| 2001 |
Review of “Artifacts: An Archaeologist’s
Year in Silicon Valley, by Christine Finn.” Wired.
December 9.12: 206. |
| 2001 |
“Families
and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families.” Final
Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (July). With
C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman |
| 2001 |
“Rapid Ethnography Interview Training.”
Video. Karl Lueck Designs production. |
| 2001 |
“Doing Good: Work as Mission in Silicon Valley
and Beyond,” introduction to the issue as Guest Editor.
Anthropology of Work Review. Spring Edition 22 (1): 1-3 |
| 2001 |
“Silicon Missionaries and Identity Evangelists.”
Anthropology of Work Review. Spring Edition 22 (1): 7-12. |
| 2001 |
“Silicon
Valley Cultures Project.” Presentation to Xerox PARC
Forum. With C.N. Darrah and J.M. Freeman (Febuarary) |
| 2000 |
Silicon Missionaries and Identity Evangelists.
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 C.N.
Darrah and J.M. Freeman |
| 2000 |
Chapter reproduction: “Living with Technology,”
with C.N. Darrah 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 |
“Silicon Valley Reinvents the Company Town.” Invited
and refereed article. Futures, 32: 759-766. |
| 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 C.N. Darrah and
J.M. Freeman (April). |
| 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 C.N. Darrah. |
| 1998 |
“Living with Technology.” Anthropology
Newsletter, December 39(9): 1, 4. With
C.N. Darrah and J.M.
Freeman. |
| 1998 |
“Technology and Social Change:
The Effects on Family and Community.” COSSA Congressional
Seminar. |
| 1997 |
“The Infomated Households Project.” Practicing
Anthropology. 19 (4) 18-22. (Fall). With C.N. Darrah
and A. Saveri. |
| 1997 |
Chinese Intellectuals on the World Frontier: Blazing the
Black Path. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey (Greenwood Publishing
Group). |
| 1996 |
“Retrospective on Tomorrowland: Visions of the Future
in Silicon Valley.” Paper presented in the session “From
communitas to valued added: creating community in Silicon Valley,”
J.A. Engish-Lueck, organizer. American Anthropological Association
Meetings, San Francisco CA. (Nov. 20, 1996). |
| 1996 |
“Notes on observations at the TECH Museum of Innovation
by anthropology students 1995-1996.” Report submitted
to the TECH Museum of Innovation. San Jose, CA. (July
1996). |
| 1996 |
“Silicon Valley Worldviews: A Report to Smart Valley,”
with C.N. Darrah, 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.
A report summarizing findings of ethnographic futures research
interviews conducted with Smart Valley. [March] |
| 1995 |
“The Difference Engine: Creating Identity in Silicon Valley.”
Paper presented in the session “Imagined Communities, Invented
Connections, Creating Identity in High Tech Regions,” J.A.
English-Lueck organizer. American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Washington, D.C. (Nov. 15, 1995). |
| 1994 |
“Tactical Ambiguity in a Post-modern Company Towns: The
Case of Silicon Valley.” Paper presented in the session
“I owe my soul to the company store: Company towns and human
rights.” Doug Dinsmore, organizer. American Anthropological
Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. (Dec. 1, 1994). |
| 1994 |
“Turner and Frontier Values: Optimistic Postindustrial
Enclaves in China and Silicon Valley.” Comparative Civilizations
Review. V31: 106-123. |
| 1994 |
“Neighbors and Neibu: An Anthropological Reflection a
Pre-departure Program in China.” International Journal
of Intercultural Relations. Volume 18, No. 1: 85-98. |
| 1994 |
“Taijiquan and Qigong.” Chapter in book, Handbook
of Chinese Popular Culture. Wu Dingbo and Patrick Murphy
eds. Pp. 137-153. New York: Greenwood Press. |
| 1992 |
“Machine as Messiah: Cultural Portrayals of Technological
Transformation in China and Silicon Valley.” Paper presented
at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San
Francisco. (Dec. 6, 1992). |
| 1991 |
Professional and Survival Writing. Intensive Language
Institute. Chengdu University of Science and Technology
Press. [A guide for academic and scientific writing for Chinese
scholars going abroad, designed to be used by a multi-cultural
teaching team.] With Xie Yongnian, Wang Xiaoxue and Wang Yaqin. |
| 1990 |
Health in the New Age: A Study in California Holistic Practices.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. |
| 1990 |
“China 2020: Looking Forward.” Futures
Research Quarterly. 6(3): 5-12. |
| 1985 |
“Millennialism in the Holistic Health Movement.”
Cultural Futures Research. 8(1): 29-43. |
| 1980 - 1997 |
Presented an additional 20 papers at the annual meetings of
the AAA, ASPAC, Contact, and SWAA on such topics as frontiers,
futures, medical anthropology, and social movements. |
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Affiliations
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| American Anthropological Association (unit memberships in General Anthropology
Division, Society for the Anthropology of North America, East
Asian Anthropology Interest Group, Society for the Anthropology
of Work) Southwestern Anthropological Association, President-elect
and Program Chair |
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