Dr. James M. Freeman
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Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
San José State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0113
.e-mail JimFreeman36@aol.com
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Education
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| Ph D |
1968 |
Harvard University |
Social Relations |
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| M A |
1964 |
.Harvard
University |
Social Relations |
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| B A |
1958 |
Northwestern University |
Anthropology |
Honors |
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Present Research
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| 1992 - Present |
Collaborative research with Drs. Darrah and
English-Lueck concerning work, identity and community in high
tech regions, involving in depth interviews in high tech companies
on the connections between work, family and cultural identity. |
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Scholarly Interests
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For over twenty-five years, I have collected the life stories
of people, first in India, later among Vietnamese refugees,
and now among the people in the Silicon Valley Cultures Project.
My aim is to capture the spirit of a people through their narratives
and to convey this in a lively style that appeals to a wide
reading public. |
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Previous Research and Fieldwork
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1980-
Present |
U.S.A., Vietnam
Indochinese Refugees and Immigrants: Life histories,
work and
family in Silicon Valley; global connections: Vietnam
and Silicon
Valley identity. |
1962-1963
1970-1972 |
India
Field research in village studies, life histories,
and modernization.
Orissa, India. |
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Honors, Awards, Appointments and Grants
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| 1999 |
Presidential Award, Faculty Merit, for Silicon Valley
Cultures Project |
August 1998-
August 2001 |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. Co-author
(with J.A. English-Lueck, 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. Co-author (with C.N. Darrah,
primary author J.A. English-Lueck ), $49, 984. “Work, Identity
and Community in Silicon Valley.” |
1996 - 1997
1994 - 1995 |
Mackintosh Foundation (contract via Aid to Refugee Children
without Parents, Inc.). For assistance to repatriated Vietnamese
minors and other children at risk. |
| 1991 |
Austin D. Warburton Award for Outstanding Scholarship. |
| 1990 |
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation. For Hearts
of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. |
| 1990 |
Outstanding Book Award, Association for Asian-American Studies.
For Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. |
| 1988 |
Ten Best Teachers of Santa Clara County, CA. West Magazine,
San Jose Mercury. |
| 1986 |
Outstanding Professor Award, San José State University. |
| 1984-1985 |
Office of Refugee Resettlement, Targeted Assistance (Contract
via St. Vincent De Paul Society and Indochinese Service and Research,
Inc.). For high-tech employment training and job placement in
high-tech companies for Laotian Refugees, Santa Clara County (Silicon
Valley) California. |
| 1983 - 1984 |
National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowship. For Vietnamese
American life histories in the Silicon Valley. |
| 1984 |
President’s Outstanding Scholar, San José State University. |
| 1983 |
National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Stipend. For Vietnamese
American life histories in the Silicon Valley. |
| 1982 |
Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Academic Achievement Award. |
| 1979 - 1980 |
Social Science Research Council grant. |
| 1979 |
Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. For Untouchable: An
Indian Life History. |
| 1976 - 1977 |
Social Science Research Council grant. |
| 1976 - 1977 |
Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford. |
| 1970 - 1972 |
Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies. |
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Publications, Papers and Reports
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| in progress |
Busy Bodies (working title). With C.N. Darrah
and J.A. English-Lueck. |
| in progress |
Remaking Everyday Life: The Hidden Innovations of Silicon
Valley. With C.N. Darrah |
| 2003 (in press) |
“Family Making and Busyness: Ritual Performances as Accompaniments
to Everyday Life.” With C.N. Darrah and J.A. English-Lueck.
Chapter to be included in Family Time: Myth and Ritual in
America, edited by Bradd Shore and Mark Auslander. Draft
completed and under review by editors. |
| 2003 |
Commentary: “Shock-Absorbing and Sense-Making: American
Families and a Public Anthropology.” Anthropology News,
44(2): 12. With C.N. Darrah and J.A. English-Lueck. |
| 2002 |
“Anthropologists and Middle Class Working Families: Framing
the Context of Inquiry.” American Anthropological Association
annual meeting. New Orleans (November 20, 2003). With C.N. Darrah
and J. A. English-Lueck. |
| 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.A. English-Lueck. |
| 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.A. English-Lueck. |
| 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.A. English-Lueck. |
| 2001 |
“Work as Mission in an Immigrant Community and its Homeland.”
Anthropology of Work Review. Spring Edition 22 (1): 13-16. |
| 2001 |
“Silicon
Valley Cultures Project.” Presentation to Xerox PARC Forum.
With C.N. Darrah and J.A. English-Lueck. (Febuarary). |
| 2000 |
“Work
as Mission in an Immigrant Community and its Homeland.”
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.A. English-Lueck. |
| 2000 |
Chapter reproduction: “Living with Technology,” with
C.N. Darrah and J.A. English-Lueck. 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 C.N. Darrah and
J.A. English-Lueck.
(April). |
| 1998 |
“Living with Technology.” Anthropology Newsletter (39(9)
December, pp. 1, 4. With C.N.
Darrah and J.A. English-Lueck. |
| 1998 |
“Vietnamese-Americans” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. |
| 1996 |
“Repatriated to Vietnam: Children Without Parents,” with Nguyen
Dinh Huu. Practicing Anthropology. Volume 18, Number 1,
pp. 28-32. |
| 1996 |
Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 1975-1995.
New Immigrants Series. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. |
| 1996 |
“From the Life of Work to the Work of Life.” Paper, American
Anthropological Association Meetings, for Session: From Communitas
to Value Added: Community and Work in Silicon Valley. With MacKenzie,
K. |
| 1995 |
“Silicon Valley to Vietnam and Back.” Paper, American Anthropological
Association Meetings, for Session: Imagined Communities, Invented
Connections: Creating Identity in High Tech Regions. |
| 1995 |
“Terror at Dong Rek,” with Nguyen Dinh Huu. Global Justice,
Fall, Volume 1, Number 3. Special Issue-Part Two, Refugees: Women
and Children, pp. 54-68. |
| 1989 |
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press. Second hardcover printing, 1990.
Paperback edition, 1991. |
| 1985 |
“The Tribal Lao Training Project,” with Huu Nguyen and Peggy
Hartsell. Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 2. Issue
topic: Identity and Education, pp. 10- 12. |
| 1979 |
Untouchable: An Indian Life History. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press. British Edition: George Allen & Unwin. 1979.
Indian Edition: Indus HarperCollins 1993. American paperback edition
1981; second printing 1988. |
| 1977 |
Scarcity and Opportunity in an Indian Village. The Kiste
and Ogan Social Change Series in Anthropology. Menlo Park, CA:
Cummings Publishing Co. Updated edition, 1985. Prospect Heights,
IL: Waveland Press. |
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Affiliations
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| American Anthropological Association, (unit membership in Society for
the Anthropology of North America). |
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Karl
Lueck Designs. . . karl.lueck@att.net.