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 Dr. J. A. English-Lueck
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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 .
University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthropology
M A 1978 .
University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthropology
B A 1976 .
California State University, Fresno
Anthropology Summa cum Laude
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Present Research
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1991- Present
  • Silicon Valley
  • New Zealand
  • 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
  • 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.
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    New Zealand
       Collaborative work in progress and planned for centers of
       knowledge-based innovation in New Zealand.

    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.

    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-
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    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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