Curriculum VitaeFebruary 2011

NANCY R. ROSENBERGER

Office Address:Home Address:

Department of Anthropology1210 NW Fernwood Circle

OregonStateUniversityCorvallis, OR97330

238 Waldo Hall Telephone: 541-753-7101

Corvallis, OR97331-6403FAX: 541-753-7100

Telephone: 541-737-3857e-mail:

Research and Consulting Interests:

Research interests: gender, food systems, rural anthropology, business anthropology (international), hegemony and resistance in market and nation, globalization/localization, ethnographic methods, Japan, Korea, Asia, Oregon.

Positions:

2001- presentProfessor, Department of Anthropology, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis

1994-2001Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis

1988-94Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis

1986-88Post-doctorate Mellon Fellow in Asian Studies, EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, Georgia

1985-86Instructor, University of New South Wales, Department of Sociology, Sydney, Australia

1984-85Instructor, part-time, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1982-84Research Affiliate, University of Tokyo, Department of Health Administration, Tokyo

1980-82Program Director, EarlhamCollege Semester Abroad Program, Morioka, Japan

Education:

1984University of Michigan, Ph.D. Anthropology

Middle-aged Japanese women and the meaning of the menopausal transition.

Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan

1980-82University of Tokyo affiliation

Doctoral research and dissertation writing

1978University of Michigan, M.A. Anthropology

1976University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, Completed Classwork for M.A.

1970College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, B.A. English Literature

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Large-Scale Applied Projects:

2006“From Our Own Soil: A Community Food Assessment of the BentonCounty Foodshed" Nancy Rosenberger, Leslie Richards, Liv Gifford, and Kim Gossen. Community Food Assessment, Published by Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (USDA Grant) and Grant from Rural Studies Initiative, OregonStateUniversity.

2004Projection Viewing and Mechanics of the Living Room, Marketing Project with major electronic company in collaboration with Department of Design and Human Environment.

2004 “A Study of Food Security in Adair and Alsea, Oregon.” Applied research project for Benton County Food Security Task Force, 6/28. Done with Talya Abel, Joan Gross, and Katie Ruiz

1989Social Impact Study in Truk, National Park Service and Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation.

Publications:

Books:

2012Seeking Food Rights: Nation, Inequality and Repression in Uzbekistan. New York: Wadsworth

2001Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and Sense of Self in a Changing Nation.Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.

1997Truk Ethnography, with John Young and Joe Harding. San Francisco, CA: Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service.

1992Japanese Sense of Self, edited by N. Rosenberger. Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Peer-Refereed Publications:

2009“The Double Binds of Getting Food among the Poor in Rural Oregon” in Food, Culture and Society 12:4, 47-70.

2009“Global Food Terror in Japan: Risk Perception in Media, Nation and Women” in Ecology of Nutrition and Food, 48:4, July-August.

2007“Patriotic Appetites and Gnawing Hungers: Food and the Paradox of Nation-building in Uzbekistan,” in Ethnos 72(3):339-360.

2007“Rethinking Emerging Adulthood in Japan: Perspectives from Long-term Single Women,” in child Development Perspectives 1(2):92-95.

2005Young Women Making Lives in Northeast Japan in Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice, edited by Chris Thompson and J. Traphagen, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

2002Business Anthropology in a Work Subculture: Korean and Japanese Young, Single, Working Women, in The Applied Anthropology Reader, edited by J.H. McDonald, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, pp.403-413.

1999Global Capital in Small TownUSA: Justice vs. Efficiency for Bus Drivers. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 28:3-4:447-481.

1999Business Anthropology in a Work Subculture: Korean and Japanese Young Single, Working Women. Practicing Anthropology 21(4):28-34, Fall.

1996Interpretations of Nature and the Legitimation of Gender Differences: “Natural” Links in the Japanese Social Field, edited by Pam Asquith and Arne Kalland, in Images of Nature in Japan, University of Hawaii, collection being refined by editors for submission; University of Hawaii has expressed interest; publication 1996.

1996Fragile Resistances, Signs of Status: Women Between Images of State and Media in Japan, edited by Anne Imamura, in Re-Imaging Japanese Women, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.12-45.

1995Antiphonal performances? Japanese Women’s Magazines and Women’s Voices, in Women Media and Consumption in Japan, L. Skov and B. Moeran, eds., Richmond, England: Curzon Press, pp.143-169.

1994Indexing Hierarchy through Japanese Gender Relations, in Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society and Language, J. Bachnik and C. Quinn, eds., Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press, pp.88-112.

1992Introduction, in Japanese Sense of Self, N. Rosenberger, ed., Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity Press, pp.1-20.

1992Tree in Winter, Tree in Summer: Movement in Japanese Self, in Japanese Sense of Self, N.Rosenberger, ed., Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity Press, pp.67-92.

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1992Images of the West: Home Style in Japanese Magazines, in Remade in Japan, J.H Tobin, ed., New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

1992The Process of Discourse: Usages of a Japanese Medical Term. Social Science and Medicine, 34(3):237-247.

1991Gender and the JapaneseState: Pension Benefits Dividing and Uniting. Anthropological Quarterly, 64(4):178-194.

1991Gender Roles: The Case of Japan, in Guide to Asian Case Studies in the Social Sciences, Myron L. Cohen, ed., Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

1987Productivity, Sexuality and Ideologies of Menopausal Problems in Japan, in Health, Illness and Medical Care in Japan: Continuities and Change, E. Norbeck and M. Lock, eds., Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

1989Dialectic Balance in the Polar Model of Self: The Japan Case. Ethos 17(2):88-113.

1986Menopause as a Symbol of Anomaly: The Case of Japanese Women. Health Care for Women International 7:15-24.

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals:

2005Food Insecurity in Rural BentonCounty: An Ethnographic Study Working Paper for the OSU Rural Studies Program. (With Joan Gross)

2005 From Heads to Hearts: Cross-cultural Communication from an Anthropologist’s point of View in Essays in Honor of the 100th Birthday of Senator William Fulbright, Fulbright Alumni Association of Uzbekistan, ed. pp. 29-33.

2004 Working Women in Thailand, South Korea, and Japan in Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 20:1, Spring, pp. 56-66

1984Taishosha no Kangaekata o Taisetsu ni (Interpreting the Cultural Concepts of the Informant). Kango Kenkyu (Nursing Research) 17(1):35-42.

1979Sickness as Mediator in Four Societies. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 4(Winter): 228-242. (Co-edited this issue with Ron Berg.)

Work in Progress:

  • Resistance as Tension over Time: Japanese Women and the ‘Gauntlet of Choice’; Contracted with University of Hawaii Press.
  • “The Organic Agriculture Movement in Japan”, Issue on Food Fights: US Food Commodities and Resistance Movements around the World. Food and Foodways, resubmission

Research Grants and Fellowships:

2005-06Rural Studies Initiative, OSU, Community Food Assessment in BentonCounty.

2005Fulbright Lecture/Research Fellowship: TashkentUzbekistan, Jan-June. Research topic: Food Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan,

2004Japan Foundation Short-term Research Fellowship: Tokyo and Morioka, Japan, Sept 19-Nov 20. Research topic: Japanese Women Negotiating Changes across the Life Course,

1998OSUCenter for Humanities, grant supporting “Demographic Crisis in Japan,” Fall.

1998OSU Travel Library Grant for research in Tokyo, Japan, Summer.

1996Korea Foundation, research grant supporting a study of “Women Delaying Marriage in South Korea.”

1993Northeast Asia Council, Association of Asian Studies, Travel Grant to Japan, OSU College of Liberal Arts Summer Grant, “Young Single Women in Japan: Resistance, Change and Power.”

1992-93CLA Research Program Grant, “Young Single Women in Japan: Resistance, Change and Power.”

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1990-93 U.S. Information Agency grant for faculty exchange to Avinashilingam University in Coimbatore, India; Winter 1992 in India; counterpart at OSU Fall 1992.

1991American Assembly of Colleges and Schools of Business, Internationalizing Education, Joint Business School-College of Liberal Arts Faculty Seminars in Japanese Language and Culture, unfunded.

1990 OSU Foundation Library Travel Grant for faculty development.

1989-90Northeast Asia Council, Association of Asian Studies, Travel grant to Japan,

Follow-up research on Middle-aged Women and Research on Women’s Magazines.

1989-90OSUCenter for Humanities, Two-term grant to work on Public and Private Representations of Women: Issues of Authority and Potency in Japan.

1986-88Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies.

1979-80Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Research Fellowship.

1976-78National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships.

Papers Presented at Conferences:

2010Motivation and Conflict for Organic Farmers in Japan, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov 17-21.

2009Ambivalence and Tension over Time: Japanese Women, Conference on Erotic Justice and New Scripts for Asian Women, University of Hong Kong, May 14-16.

2009Struggles with Identity and Relationships in Consumer Heaven: Organic Agriculture in Japan, Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, March 17-20.

2009Chaired Panel with Joan Gross, Frontier Rural Resiliency in Oregon, Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, March 17-20.

2008US Commodities in Japan and the Organic Agriculture Movement, Presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 19-23.

2008Poison Gyoza in Japan: Media, Risk Perception and the Nation, Presented at Food and Society Conference, New Orleans, June 3-5.

2007Japanese Women between Resistance, Tension, and Curiosity, Presented at Faculty Seminar, International Liberal Studies, WasedaUniversity, Tokyo, Japan, December 6.

2007Japanese Young Women and the Pursuit of Self.” Presented at 3rd Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Tuscon, Arizona, Feb 15-17.

2007Association on the Study of Nationalities, ColumbiaUniversity, April 14-16.

2006“Challenges in Feeding Ourselves” Presented at Horticulture Seminar Series, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis, October 2006.

2006“Female, Single and Older-than-Average in Tashkent” Presented at Central Eurasian Studies Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 2006.

2006“Rural Communities and Food Security,” Presented at Rural Studies Initiative Conference, OregonStateUniversity, April 2006.

2006 “Food Strategies Amidst Poverty: Low-income People in Rural Oregon,” Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, VancouverBC, March 2006.

2005“Low Fertility and Construction of Self in Japan,” Presented at the American Anthropological Society, Washington, DC, November 30, 2005.

2005Food in Uzbekistan: Images of Plenty and Unity in Challenging Times, Presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Boston, MA, October 1, 2005.

2005Discussant for panel on Cultural Identity in Central Asia, Central Eurasian Studies Society, Boston, MA, October 1, 2005.

2005 Ethnicity and Modernity, Conference on The Modern and Traditional Ethnocultural Processes in Central Asia, Sept 19, Institute of History, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

2003NGOs and Conflict Mediation in Tajikistan. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. November 19-23.

2003Workshop “Developing Applied Anthropology Programs.” American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. November 19-23.

2003Dreams and Realities of NGOs in Tajikistan. Panel entitled Global Interventions in the Local in Central Asia. Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA. October 2-5.

2003Panel Organizer and Discussant. Panel entitled Anthropological Approaches Meet Business Models: Alternative Paths to the Bottom Line. Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March 19-23.

2003Anthropologist as President of Faculty Senate. Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March 19-23.

2001Young Women and the Changing Household in Northeast Japan. American Anthropological Association, SanFrancisco, CA, November 15-19.

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2001Alternative Medicine as Reflected in Biomedical Journals. American Anthropological Association, SanFrancisco, CA, November 15-19.

2001Invisible Malls on Campus: E-commerce and the University. Society for Applied Anthropology, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, March 31.

2000Panel Organizer and Presenter: Panel entitled Local Effects of Flexible Accumulation Around the Globe. Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, CA, March 22.

2000Local Debates in Globalized Small TownUSA: Efficiency vs. Equity in Bus Services. Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, CA, March 22.

1999The Ecology of Low Fertility in Japan: Balancing Causes and Effects at the Low End of the Decision Chain. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 18.

1999Panel Organizer, with Sunil Khanna, and Discussant: Panel entitled Surviving in a Multi-layered Social Environment, Society for Applied Anthropology, Tucson, AZ, April23-24.

1999Panel Organizer and Discussant: Panel entitled Social Survival, general session discussant, Northwest Anthropological Conference, Newport, OR, April8.

1999“Nature” and “Culture” of Biomedicine and Naturopathy, with Sunil Khanna, American Ethnological Society Meetings, Portland, OR, March.

1998Population Discourse to the Rescue: Government Marketing of the Family in Japan and Consumer Citizen Reaction, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December3.

1998From Tatami to Tile: Houses as Social Things, Material Japan: Things Are Culture, University of BerkeleyCenter for Japanese Studies Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, May1.

1998Panel Organizer and Presenter: Panel entitled Between the Local and the Global: Changing East Asian Business Practices, Society for Applied Anthropology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 21-26.

1998Paper entitled Women’s Work Experience in Ulsan, South Korea, Society for Applied Anthropology, SanJuan, PuertoRico, April21-26.

1997Young, Single Women in South Korea: Development as the Ability to Deal with Multiplicity, Confluences, Department of Philosophies and Conference on Ethics, Newport, May 15-17.

1997Young, Single Women in South Korea: Fragments of Social Change, Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, March 4-7.

1997Single Working Women in Japan: Between Global Affluence and Local Demographic Alarm, American Ethnological Society, Seattle, March 5-8.

1996The Viewpoint of Young Japanese Women: Struggling with the Housewife Role, International Seminar of Home Management Department, Chungbuk University, Korea, May 16.

1996Tatami to Tile: Changes in Japanese Housing and Women’s Roles, Yonsei University, Korea, May 31.

1994Antiphonal Performances? Japanese Magazines for Young Women and Women’s Voices. Canadian Anthropological Association, Vancouver, BC, May 5-6.

1993The Construction of Japanese Young Women as Elite Cosmopolitans: Frustrations of the 25-35 Age Group. Conference on Women, Media and Consumption in Japan, Hong Kong, November 25.

1993Japanese Young Women and Elite Global Identities: Construction and Contradictions. Panel on Global Deterritorialization, Commodification and Fragmented Subjectivities. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 19.

1993Images of Nature in Japan: Essentially Entwined with Women. Japan Anthropological Workshop Conference, Banff, AB, April.

1993Panel Organizer for two panels for OSU graduate anthropology students: Power and Resistance, and Gender: Defined and Defining, Northwest Anthropological Conference, Bellingham, WA, March.

1993Fragile Resistances, Signs of Status: Women Between Images of State and Media in Japan. Association of Asian Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March.

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1991Japan’s Youth Economy: Messages about Freedom and Status in the Mass Media. Association for Asian Studies, New Orleans, LA, March.

1990Where Does the Construction of Gender End? Determining Research Dimensions in a Complex Society. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November.

1989From Tatami to Tile: A Case Study of Interior Design. Conference on Domestic Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Japan, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, August.

1989Gendered Categories of Citizenship: The View from Pension and Tax Policy. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, March.

1988Japanese Women: Holding Up Men and Catching Each Other. Conference on Feminine Revolution in Asia: Fact of Fiction? University of Georgia, Athens, GA, April.

1988From Tatami to Tile: Domestic Spatial Representations in Japan. American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ, November.

1988Reversals in Japanese Gender Relations: Indexing Contexts and Universal Powers. Western Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, March.

1988Interaction and Development of Paternalism and Authority: The Medical Hierarchy in Japan. Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, WA, March.

1987Panel Organizer and Presenter: Panel entitled Japanese Self: Receiving and Creating Culture; Paper entitled Negotiation of Selfhood in Japan. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November.

1987Basic Differences between Japan and the United States. The Japan Business Study Course. JETRO and GeorgiaStateUniversity at GeorgiaState, Atlanta, May.

1987Using the Film “Full Moon Lunch” in the Classroom. Southern Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg, December.

1987Power and the Self in Japan. Anthropology Department Lecture Series, EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA, February.

1987Japanese Women: Paradoxes of Power and Self. Southeastern Association for Asian Studies, Chattanooga, TN, October.

1986The Discourse of Power in Japan. American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, November.

1986The Japanese Concept of Self. International Studies Lecture Series, EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA, March.

1985Transition without Ritual: Middle-age in Japan. Faculty Seminar Series, University of Sydney, Australia, April.

1985The Quest for Maturity among Japanese Men and Women: Medical Models, Economic Constraints and Personal Contingencies. Faculty Seminar Series, University of New South Wales, Australia, September.

1984The Uncontrolled Ki: Menopausal Transition in Japan. Association for Asian Studies Meetings, Washington, DC, March.

1983Menopause in Japan: Reactions to Anomaly. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November.

Curriculum Development:

  • Central in developing the Business Anthropology curriculum, a concentration within the Applied Anthropology Masters Program.
  • Developed new course: Business of Anthropology, 489/589, 2003.
  • Developed new version of Anth 110 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 2008-9
  • Ethnographic FieldSchool in Rural Communities, 2006-07
  • Part of leadership for developing PhD proposal, OSU Anthropology, 2002-03.
  • Women Microenterprises, Cooperatives, and Non-Governmental Organizations, microenterprise as a distinct yet interrelated body of work within the larger framework of women in economic development, Anthropology and Women Studies have already added to this diverse and evolving field: with Charlotte Haynes, Women in Development, 2-credit seminar, Fall 2000.
  • Population Seminar: with Sunil Khanna and Roberta Hall developed, taught and coordinated new 1-credit seminar on issues within demographic anthropology, 2000.
  • Pre-Internship Seminar for Applied Anthropology graduate students: developed new 1-credit course, Winter 1998.
  • Comparative Cultures: Introduction to Anthropology for the HonorsCollege, Winter 1998.
  • Team-teaching, Oregon State System of Higher Education Masters in International Management, Cross Cultural Communication in Japan and China, May-June 1997
  • Writing intensive class: Family, Gender and Generation.
  • Power and Resistance: developed new course, 1997.
  • Asian Business and Culture: received CLA funds for development in 1989-90, which I used for bibliographic expansion and video purchase; received Title VI funds in 1993 for developing this course through Internationalizing the Curriculum Seminar; increased class participation and use of case study approach; developed the course for EdNet in Fall 1993.
  • Cultures of Japan and Korea: developed the course for EdNet, Spring 1993; from 1990, instituted conversation partner requirements with Japanese or Korean people, especially linking with students from AsiaUniversity on campus.
  • Culture, Gender, and Self: developed new course, 1990; emphasizes intensive discussion and writing concerning post-modern approach to gender and self.

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  • Economy and Culture: developed new course, 1993; emphasizes participatory exercises and case studies to make students consider the multi-faceted effects of past and present global economic systems.
  • Family, Gender, and Generation: developed intensive writing approach with in-class and out-of-class writings and use of journal with new readings, 1990, 1993.
  • Key player in developing and writing the MA proposal for Applied Anthropology, 1989.

Courses Taught: