JEANNE LARAINE SHEA June 17,
2011 |
Dept. of Anthropology Phone: (802) 656-3181
515 Williams Hall (802)
656-3884
University of Vermont Fax: (802) 656-4406
Burlington, VT 05405-0168 Email: jeanne.shea@uvm.edu
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
University of Vermont
Associate
Professor, Anthropology Aug.
2004 - present
Acting
Chair, Asian Languages and Literature Jan.
2009-July 2009
Director,
Asian Studies Program Jan. 2009-July 2009
Interim
Director, Asian Studies Program June 2007 – July 2008
Assistant
Professor, Anthropology Aug.
1998 - May 2004
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Jan. 1998 - May 1998
Fudan University
Fulbright
Scholar, Sociology/Medical Anthropology Jan.-Aug.
2012
Harvard University
Writing
Center Tutor Sept.
1997-Jan. 1998
Teaching
Fellow, Asian Studies Sept.
1997 – Jan. 1998
Teaching
Fellow, Anthropology Sept.
1991 - June 1997
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
Harvard University June
1994 - June 1998
Ph.D in Social
Anthropology.
Peking Union Medical College
Hospital Fall 1993-Summer 1994
Fieldwork internship on aging and menopause, Dept. of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
Harvard University Sept.
1990 - June 1994
M.A. in Social Anthropology.
Beijing University Sept.
1989 - May 1990
Fulbright
Student Fellow in Chinese history and culture, Department of History.
Dartmouth College Sept.
1985 - June 1989
B.A.,
summa cum laude, and high honors in Asian Studies.
University College London Oct. 1987 - March 1988
Dartmouth College Foreign Study Program in English Literature.
Beijing Normal University June 1986 - Dec. 1986
Foreign Study Programs in Chinese Language and
Literature organized by Dartmouth College
and University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Bellows Free Academy,
Fairfax, Vt Sept. 1973 - June
1985
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP |
RESEARCH
CURRENT RESEARCH
●Caregiving
for elderly in social and cultural context; experiences and dynamics across
different family caregiving situations and use of
informal/formal social supports in China.
●Mainland Chinese women’s views and experiences
of the lifecycle, the generations, aging, middle age, menopause, and old age,
analyzed in cross-cultural perspective.
●Media representations of
later-life romance, sex, and marriage in mainland China in comparison with
ethnographic research on ordinary Chinese women’s views and experiences.
●Experiences of Chinese
immigrants in Montréal, including ethnic identity, everyday life, lifecycle,
intergenerational relationships, and health, healing, and health care.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
●Sociocultural
anthropology; China, East Asia, Canada, and the United States.
●Medical anthropology; health,
illness, healing, and health care in sociocultural
perspective.
●Psychological anthropology; personhood,
the lifecycle, human development, and aging.
●Social gerontology; family caregiving for elderly persons in sociocultural
context.
●Interactions of biology and
culture, mind and body, and natural and social environments in relation to
human experience, health, and quality of life.
●Cultural/generational
differences in lifecycle experience and intergenerational issues.
●Health concerns and social
issues marking lifecourse transitions.
●Women’s studies, cultural construction of
gender and sexuality, and feminist perspectives.
●Women, health, aging, gender,
sexuality, and conjugality in China and cross-culturally.
●Chinese views and experiences
of the lifecycle, middle age, menopause, and old age.
●Chinese experiences of illness, healing
practices, and health care system in China.
●Culture and history of
Chinese populations in East Asia and North America.
●Negotiation of identities,
cultures, and languages in the Chinese diaspora in
Montréal.
●Multiculturalism, transnationalism, and interaction of “eastern” and
“western” cultures.
● Research methods and integration
of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
●Evidence-based medicine, efficacy,
evidence, and theory and practice of Chinese medicine.
ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGE
PROFICIENCY
●Mainland China
(four cumulative years) 1986, 1989-90, 1992,
1993-94, 1996, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2012; Taiwan (three weeks) 1990, 1996; Hong Kong (two weeks) 1986, 1990, 1992; Chinatowns: Montréal (numerous short
stays) 1980-85, 1992, 1998-2005, 2010, Toronto 2005, Boston 1990-92, 1995-98,
2000; NYC 1989, 2000; San Francisco 1996, 2000; Philadelphia 1998.
●Mandarin
Chinese: Fluent speaking, reading, and writing ability; French: Advanced reading and listening
ability, intermediate speaking and writing ability; Cantonese: Rudimentary oral comprehension of some basic phrases; English: Native speaking, reading, and
writing ability.
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
● Jeanne Shea, “Older
Women, Marital Relationships, and Sexuality in China,” Ageing International, Special Issue on Sexuality, Summer 2011, in
press, 18 pages.
● Jeanne Shea, auth., Cuixia
Shi, transl., “循证医学在中医学中的应用标:争论与策略” (Application of
Evidence-Based Medicine Standards to Traditional Chinese Medicine: Debate and
Strategy), 中国中西医结合杂志 (Chinese Journal of Integrated Chinese
and Western Medicine), 2010(30:3):230-233.
● Jeanne Shea, auth.,
Francis Yu Lu, transl., “性解放理论与中国当代老年妇女” (Sexual Liberation Theory
and Senior Women in Modern China), 广西民族大学学报 (Journal of Guangxi University for
Nationalities),
2009(31:6):26-36.
● Jeanne Shea, “Review
of The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and
Chinese in Canada, 1941-67” (Patricia E. Roy, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), American
Review of Canadian Studies, 2009(39:4):467-469.
● Jeanne Shea,
“Conference Abstract: Efficacy, Evidence, and the Authentic Natural Other:
Menopause, Midlife Aging, and Western Encounters with East Asian Alternatives,”
in Westminster Workshop Abstracts, Complementary Therapies in Medicine,
2008(16:2):113.
● Jeanne Shea, “Conference Report: Authenticity, Best Practice, and the Evidence
Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating
Traditional East Asian Medicine into Western Health Care,” International
Association for Study of Traditional Asian Medicines Newsletter,
Fall 2007: 9-13.
● Jeanne Shea, "Cross-Cultural Comparison
of Women's Midlife Symptom-Reporting: A China Study," Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry: International Journal of
Comparative Cross-Cultural Research, 2006(30:3): 331-362.
● Jeanne Shea, "Midlife Women's Symptom
Reporting in China," American
Journal of Human Biology, 2006(18:2): 219-222.
● Jeanne Shea, "Applying Evidence-Based
Medicine to Traditional Chinese Medicine: Debate and Strategy," Journal of Alternative and Complementary
Medicine, 2006(12:3): 255-63.
● Jeanne Shea, "Chinese Women's Symptoms:
Relation to Menopause, Age and Related Attitudes," Climacteric:
Journal of the International Menopause Society, 2006(9:1): 30-39.
● Jeanne Shea, " Parsing the Ageing Asian
Woman: Symptom Results from the China Study of Midlife Women," Maturitas: The European Menopause Journal,
2006(55:1): 36-50.
● Jeanne L. Shea,
“Older Women and the Sexual Liberation Movement in China,” Women of China Magazine (中国妇女), 2006(11): 12-13.
● Jeanne Shea, "Sexual 'Liberation' and the
Older Woman in Contemporary Mainland China," Modern China: International Quarterly of History and Social Science,
2005(31:1): 115-47 (ranked among the top three Most Frequently Read Modern China articles at Sage Journals
Online (http://online.sagepub.com) from 2005-2007; updated monthly; regularly
number one.)
● Jeanne L. Shea, “Review
of China's Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations" (Martin K.
Whyte, editor, Ann Arbor: Univ. Michigan Press, 2003), The China Journal,
2004(52): 131-3.
● Jeanne Shea, "Setting the Anthropological Record Straight: Critique
of Marshall Sahlins’ Char- acterization of Classic Theories of Causality in Anthropology,” Anthropos, 2003(98):489-97.
● Jeanne Shea, "Review of China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary
Culture" (Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffery, eds., Durham: Duke University
Press, 2001), Journal of Asian Studies, 2002(61:1): 211-213.
● Jeanne Shea, "When
Research Ethics and Regulatory Procedures Collide: Suggested Strategies,"
Ethical Currents series, Anthropology News, 2001(42:9): 19.
● Jeanne Shea, "When
Research Ethics and Regulatory Procedures Collide: The Problem," Ethical
Currents series, Anthropology News, 2001(42:8):
18.
● Jeanne Shea, "Revolutionary
Women at Middle Age: An Ethnographic Exploration of Mainland Chinese Women's
Experiences of Middle Age, Menopause, and Midlife Aging,” China Exchange News,
1994(22:2): 12-17.
DISSERTATIONS, THESES, AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
● Jeanne Shea, Research
Report: Negotiating East and West: Chinese in the Montréal Mosaic, submitted
to Canadian Embassy in the United States, Wash., D.C., March 2003 (technical
report).
● Jeanne Shea, Revolutionary Women At Middle
Age: An Ethnographic Survey of Menopause
and Midlife Aging in Beijing, China, Doctoral Dissertation in Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, published by UMI,
1998, 353 pages. (Dissertation
committee: James L. Watson, Arthur Kleinman, Rubie S. Watson, and Michael Phillips)
● Jeanne Shea, The Impact of Economic and Political Systems
on Fertility and Population in Singapore and China, Senior Honors Thesis in
Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1989, 150 pages. (Thesis Committee: Kirk Endicott and Hwa-Yuan Li Mowry)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
● Jeanne Shea, “Venting Anger From the Body
During Gengnianqi:
Meanings of Midlife Transition Among Chinese Women in Reform-Era Beijing,” in Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely,
eds., Transitions and Transformations:
Cultural Perspectives on the Life Course, Berghahn
Books, 24 pages.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE PAPERS/ INVITED LECTURES
● Discussant on Chinese diaspora
in Canada, Invited Roundtable on Globalization, Transnationalism,
and Migration in Asia, Association for Asian Studies conference, Honolulu,
Hawaii, Apr. 2010.
● “I’m Not Willing to Depend on My Children”:
Resistance To Later Life Familial Dependence By Chinese Women in Beijing,”
paper presented in Gender, Family, and Kinship in China Panel, Invited Panel
sponsored by the Section for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological
Association Conference, New Orleans, Nov. 17-21, 2010.
● “Gender, Family and Morality in Everyday Life:
Meanings of Shen Chang’s Science and Technology of
the Body For Women in Rural North China,” paper presented at Workshop on Social Suffering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
May 7-8, 2010.
● “Gender and Ageing in Contemporary China,”
poster presented at Center on Aging Research Day, Fletcher Allen Health Care
and University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Mar. 23, 2010.
● “Later Life Conjugality in Contemporary China:
Dominant Promotional Discourses Versus Chinese Women’s Own Views,” paper
presented at American Anthropological Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA,
Dec. 2-6, 2009.
● “Beyond the Natural
Woman: Mixed Methods Approaches to Understanding the Midlife Health of Chinese
Women in Beijing,” paper presented to Fairbanks Center Gender Studies Workshop,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Dec. 12, 2008.
● “Gender, Ageing, and
Health in China,” paper presented at Shorenstein Center’s AHPP Seminar Series on "Implications of Demographic Change in China,"
sponsored by Stanford China Program and Asia Health Policy Program, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, Nov. 19, 2008.
● “Chinese Women, Aging, Conjugality, Sex,
and Well-Being,” paper presented toYunnan Health & Development Research Association
Meeting, Kunming, China, July 19, 2008
● “Socioeconomic Development, Women, and Aging
in Contemporary China,” paper presented at Harvard Yenching
Conference on Rethinking Development in China: Social and Cultural
Perspectives, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Apr. 25-26, 2008
● “Efficacy, Evidence,
and the Authentic Natural Other: Menopause, Midlife Aging, and Western
Encounters with East Asian Alternatives,” paper presented at seminar series
coordinated by Drs. Ted Kaptchuk and Andrew Ahn, Osher Research Center -
Division for Research and Education in Complementary Integative
Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, Apr. 8, 2008.
● “Menopause, ‘Sexual
Liberation,’ and Older Chinese Women,” paper presented at New Departures in Cultural
Study of Medical Anthropology and Medical Humanities Conference establishing
1st medical anthro. program
in China, Fudan University, Shanghai, Oct. 20-21, 2007.
● “Efficacy, Evidence,
and the Authentic Natural Other: Menopause, Midlife Aging, and Western
Encounters with East Asian Alternatives,” paper presented at conference on
Authenticity, Best Practice, and the Evidence Mosaic: The Challenge of
Integrating Traditional East Asian Medicines into Western Health Care at University
of Westminster in London, Apr. 19-20, 2007.
● “Clinical Normativities and Women’s Narratives: (Re)Visions
of Gendered Aging in China,” paper presented at American
Anthropological Association meeting, Wash., D.C., Nov. 2006.
● "Gender, Aging, and Modernity in Post-Mao China:
Women's Experiences and Public Discourse," lecture for research colloquium
in Anthropology Department at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Mar. 2006.
●"Liberating Elders: Promotion of Later-Life Romance, Sex, and Remarriage In Mainland China,” paper presented at American Anthropological Assoc. meeting, Wash., D.C., Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2005.
● "Cross-Cultural
Comparison of Menopausal Symptom-Reporting," paper presented at NE
Regional Medical Anthropology Conference at McGill University, Montréal,
Québec, Apr. 2004.
● "CAM Reactions to Evidence-Based
Practice: A Focus on Traditional Chinese Medicine," paper presented at
American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago, IL, Nov. 2003.
● "Negotiating East and West: Chinese in
the Montréal Mosaic," paper presented at annual meeting of the
Northeastern Anthropological Association in Burlington, VT, Mar. 2003.
● "Cultural Competence Issues in Biomedical
Health Care Encounters With Elderly Patients in the US,"
paper presented at American Anthropological Assoc. meeting, New Orleans, Nov.
2002.
● "Gender, Health and the Lifecycle in
China," paper presented at the Asian Health and Healing Symposium,
sponsored by the UVM Asian Studies Program, Burlington, VT, Apr. 2001.
● "Chinese Women’s Views of the Generations
and of Intergenerational Issues," paper presented at American
Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov.
2000.
● "Controversies Surrounding Romance, Sex,
and Marriage Across the Lifecycle in China,"
paper presented at meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association in
Queens, NY, Apr. 2000.
● "Chinese Debates Concerning Romance, Sex,
and Marriage in Later Life," paper
presented in panel on “Genders, Sexualities, Kinship, Lives: Perspectives Through Age,” at American Anthropological Association
meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1999.
● "The Medicalization
of Menopause and Female Midlife in Mainland China," paper presented in
panel on “Consuming Health: Changing Health Care in East Asia,” at American
Anthropological Association meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1996.
● "Chinese Experiences of Menopause, Middle
Age, and Midlife Aging in the Transition from a ' Feudal' to a Socialist Market Economy,"
paper presented at Transformation of Social Experience in Taiwan, Hong Kong,
and China Conference, Academica Sinica,
Taibei, Aug. 25-30, 1996.
● "Revolutionary Women At
Middle Age: Intersections of Culture, History, and the Life Course in
Mainland China," paper presented in panel entitled “Culture, History, and
the Life Course in East Asia,” at American Anthropological Association meeting,
Washington, D.C., Nov. 1995.
GRANTS,
HONORS, AND AWARDS
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS RECEIVED
oFulbright China
Studies Research Award: For
ethnographic research project on family caregiving
for the elderly in China. Research Award #1083.
Entitled Family Caregiving
for the Elderly in China: Meanings, Experiences, Practices, and Social Dynamics. To do fieldwork in China
during a half sabbatical from January – August 2012. Host Institution: Sociology Department and Fudan-Harvard Medical Anthropology Research Collaborative
at Fudan University in Shanghai. Grant submission completed in August
2010. Award letter received April 2011.
oFaculty Sabbatical, University of Vermont: Awarded one semester of half-sabbatical, Spring 2012
and Fall 2008, and a year of sabbatical, 2004-2005.
oAsian Studies Research and Conference Grants,
University of Vermont: Awarded
$500-$2500 per year from the Freeman Foundation and/or Parimitas
Foundation for research on Chinese culture in China and Montréal and presenting
at and attending conferences, 1999-2010.
oWriting in the Disciplines Award, University of
Vermont: Awarded $750 for research
and conference travel and seminar training on
advanced writing pedagogy, Summer 2010.
oHonors College Faculty Neuroscience Seminar
Award, University of Vermont: Awarded
$450 for research and conference expenses and
invitation to attend interdisciplinary faculty seminar on recent
neuroscience research findings, Summer 2010.
oDean’s Fund Awards for Faculty Research, University of
Vermont: Awarded $908 for research on
women and aging in China, and efficacy and Chinese medicine in Beijing, Summer
2007; $1000 and $2000 for research on Montréal Chinese, Nov. 2002-Nov. 2003 and
Jan. – Dec. 2000; $500 to present paper on women and aging at conference in
China, Summer 2008; $300 and $350 to present paper at conference on East Asian
Medicine in London, April 2007.
oProvost’s
Problem-Based Learning Community Award, University of Vermont: Awarded $10,000 for Health Challenges in 21st
Century to run seminar with two colleagues on health challenges for students in
Anthropology, Political Science, and Economics, Spring 2008.
oCanadian Embassy Faculty Research Grant: $10,000 for research on Chinese in Montréal, cultural
identity, lifeycycle issues, and health practices, grant
period 2001–03.
oCanadian Studies Awards, University of Vermont: Awarded $1200 through U.S. Dept. of Education for research on Chinese
in Montréal, Jul.-Aug. 2002; conference award to attend Canada Seminar on
contemporary issues and international relations, in Ottawa, May 2003.
oUniversity Committee
on Research and Scholarship Grant, University of Vermont: Awarded $4500 for
research on cultural identity, lifecycle and generational issues, and health
practices among Chinese population in Montréal, Jul. 2000 – Aug. 2001.
oNovartis Research Grant: Awarded with P. Woolfson and
Center for Aging at McGill Univ. $50,000 for intergenerational research and
education in Montréal, grant period 1999-2000.
oCenter for Teaching and Learning Awards,
University of Vermont: Awarded $250
for teaching enrichment seminar, Fall 2003.
Program
to incorporate web-based research skills, Fall 2002. $1000 for digital documentation of Chinese culture, Jun. 2000-May
2001. Workshop on
integrating laptop technology, Aug. 2000. Visual anthro.
curriculum grant, Apr. – Jun. 1999.
oWomen’s Studies Research and Conference Grants,
University of Vermont: Awarded $300
by Women's Studies for research and conferences, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
◦Cora DuBois Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University: Awarded Sept. 1995– Feb. 1996.
◦National
Institute of Mental Health Predoctoral Award: Awarded in medical anthropology in Depts. of
Anthropology and Social Medicine
at Harvard University, Sept. 1994 – Aug.1995.
◦CSCC
Graduate Fellowship: Awarded by
Committee on Scholarly Communication with China for dissertation research on
menopause and midlife aging in Beijing, Jun. 1993 – Aug. 1994.
◦National
Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship: For
graduate study in Anthropology at Harvard, Sept. 1990 – June 1994; NSF Travel
Award for China research, June-Aug. 1992.
◦Foreign
Language and Area Studies Fellowship: For
study of Chinese language and culture, Harvard University, Sept. 1992 – June
1993.
◦Mellon
Predissertation Award: For preliminary dissertation research, China,
June-Aug. 1992.
◦Fulbright
Student Fellowship: For graduate
study, Beijing University, History Dept. Awarded by Fulbright Commission, Inst.
of Intl. Education, and ITT Intl., Aug. 1989 – May 1990.
◦Turrell Fund Award:
Awarded to underprivileged youth for undergraduate education, 1985-89.
TEACHING AND ADVISING |
TEACHING
COURSES
TAUGHT
Four-five courses taught annually, 1998-2011,
including:
Culture, Health and Healing |
Psychological Anthropology |
Medical Anthropology Seminar |
Health Challenges in 21st Century |
Foundations of Gerontology |
Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
Bodies and Lifecycles Seminar |
Ethnographic Research Methods |
Gender, Sex, and Culture |
Gender and Health Freshman Seminar |
Intro. Cultural Anthropology |
Gender and Lifecourse in
Chinese Culture |
Chinese Culture and Society |
Cultures of East Asia |
East Asian Cultures Freshman Seminar |
Chinese in the Canadian Mosaic |
Anthropology Theory |
Senior Seminar in Anthropology |
Race and Ethnicity in the United States |
Race and Ethnicity: Asians in N. America |
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Course titles, enrollment, dates, and institutions:
Course (institution,
number of students/semester) Course/dates Intro. Cultural
Anthropology (UVM, 41-91*, 143-180) Anth 021, 1998*, 1999, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2009*, 2010, 2011 Culture, Health and
Healing (UVM, 23*, 69-110) Anth 196,
2002*, 2004, Anth 174,
2006, 2008, 2010 Anthropology Theory (UVM,
26-30) Anth
225, 2005, 2006, 2007 Psychological Anthropology
(UVM, 33-60) Anth 180, 2006, 2007, 2009 Gender, Sex, and Culture
(UVM, 40) Anth 172, 2007,
2010 Health Challenges in 21st
Century (UVM PBLC, 13) Anth 174 extra
credit, 2008 Aging in Cross-Cultural
Perspective (UVM, 20-40) Anth 189, summer
2011 Foundations of Gerontology
(UVM, 5-20) HDFS 295, summer 2010, fall 2010 Gender and Health Freshman
Seminar (UVM, 17) Anth
095, 2006 Medical Anthropology
Seminar (UVM, 9-22) Anth 296, 1999, 2003 Bodies and Lifecycles
Seminar (UVM, 8-10, 6 credits) Anth 296, 2009, 2011 Chinese Culture and
Society (UVM, 35-50) Anth 096, 2007, Anth 154, 2009,
2011 East Asian Cultures
Freshman Seminar (UVM, 17-27) Anth 095, 1999, 2003, 2005 Cultures of East Asia
(UVM, 29-33) Anth
195, 2001, 2002 Gender and Lifecourse in Chinese Culture (UVM, 16) Anth 196,
1998 Race and Ethnicity in the
United States (UVM, 21-36) Anth 187, 1998, 1999, 2000 Race and Ethnicity: Asians
in N. America (UVM, 50) Anth 187, 2004 Chinese in the Canadian
Mosaic (UVM, 6) IS
296, 2001 Ethnographic Research
Methods (UVM, 10-15) Anth 290, 2001, 2002, 2003 Senior Seminar in
Anthropology (UVM, 6-13) Anth 296, 1999, 2000 Int. Independent Study in
Anthropology (UVM, 1) Anth
197/8, 2006, 2009 RA/TA Independent Study in
Anthro. (UVM, 1-6)
Anth
197/8, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Adv. Independent Study in
Anthropology (UVM, 1) Anth 297-98, 2001,
2007, 2009 Adv. Independent Study in
Asian Studies (UVM, 2) AS
297-98, 2001, 2002, 2009 Anthropology Internship
(UVM, 1-2) Anth 201, 2006,
2009, 2010 Women’s Studies Internship
(UVM, 1) WGST, 2006 Senior Thesis in
Anthropology (UVM, 2) Hon 202, 2005-06, 2007-08 Senior Thesis in Global
Health IDM (UVM, 2) JDHP/IDM,
2006-07 Senior Project Health
Promotion IDM (UVM, 1) 2009-2010 East Asia Junior Tutorial
(Harvard, 14) 1997-98 Thesis Advisor in Asian
Studies (Harvard, 1) 1996-97 Thesis Advisor in Social
Anthropology (Harvard, 2) 1994-96 Culture, Illness, Healing,
Head Fellow (Harvard, 195) 1996-97 Culture, Illness, Healing,
Teach. Fellow (Harvard, 35) 1996-97 Chinese Family, Teach.
Fellow (Harvard, 20-40) 1991-93 Training Interview/Survey
Methods (BJ Med Univ, 9) 1993 Tutor in Chinese
Conversation (Dartmouth, 1) 1989 |
GUEST
LECTURES IN UNIVERSITY COURSES
◦“Women’s Health in
China,” guest lecture and facilitated discussion in
Cell to Society seminar, a graduate course offered by the School of Medicine,
University of Vermont, April 2010.
◦“Women’s Health in
China,” guest lecture and facilitated discussion in
Cell to Society seminar, a graduate course offered by the School of Medicine,
University of Vermont, April 30, 2009.
◦“Ethnographic Observations on Women in China,”
guest lecture presented to Prof. R. Montgomery’s course on Women’s Health in
the School of Nursing, UVM, March 2008.
◦“Women’s Health in Global Perspective,”
presented to Prof. R. Montgomery’s course on Women’s Health in the School of
Nursing, UVM, April 2007.
◦ “Views of the Body, Health, and Disease in
Chinese Medicine,” presented to Prof. D. Blom’s
Anthropology course on Ancient Health and Disease, UVM, Feb. 2007.
◦"The Notion of 'Experience' in
Research on Gender and Aging in China," presented to Prof. K. Trainor's Honors 100 course on experience, UVM, Feb. 2006.
◦"Gender and Health in China,"
presented to Prof. M. Canales' course nursing course on women's health at the
School of Nursing, UVM, Oct. 2005.
◦"Views of the Notion of 'Experience' in
Medical and Psychological Anthropology," presented to Prof. K. Trainor's Honors 100 course on experience, at UVM, Feb.
2004.
◦"Menopause in
Cross-Cultural Perspective," research lecture to Prof. M. Canales' nursing
course on women's health at the School of Nursing, UVM, Nov. 2003.
◦ “Sociocultural
Diversity in Vermont,” module presented to students in Vermont Studies 095:
Freshman Honors: Who Owns the Past, at UVM, Oct. 27, 29, 31, 2003.
◦"Chinese Women and the Body,"
presentation to course on cultural construction of the human body taught by
Prof. D. Blom at UVM, Apr. 2003.
◦"Traditional Chinese Medicine and Its
Views of Health and the Body," presentation to Anthropology 21: Human
Cultures taught by Prof. J. Dickinson at UVM, Fall
2002.
◦"Children in China," presentation to
course on Geographies of Children taught by Prof. C. DeBurlo
at UVM, Nov. 2000.
◦"Sociocultural
Variation in Feminist Theory: A Focus on Feminism in Chinese Contexts,"
presented to Women's Studies 273 taught by Prof. R. Kahn, UVM, Apr. 2000.
◦"Cults in East Asia: China`s Falun Gong and Japan's Aum Shinrikyo," Anthropology 177: Crisis Cults and
Movements course taught by Prof. S. Pastner at UVM,
Oct. 1999.
◦"Chinese Conceptions of the
Lifecycle," presented to Anthropology 21: Human Cultures course taught by
Michael Sheridan at UVM, Spring 1999.
◦"Gender and Marriage Practices in Chinese
Culture," presented to Anthropology 21: Human Cultures course taught by
Dr. C. DeBurlo at UVM, Spring
1999.
◦Discussed intellectual and social change in
China around 1900, in history course by Prof. R. Horowitz at UVM, Feb. 1999.
◦“Cultural Differences in Representation and
Experience of Menopause and Aging: China, Japan, and North America,"
lecture presented in Culture, Illness, and Healing taught by Prof. A. Kleinman and B. Good at Harvard University, Nov. 1996.
◦"Current Trends in American
Anthropology," lecture presented in Chinese to anthropology class in the
Sociology Department at Beijing University, Jan. 1994.
GUEST
LECTURES FOR STUDENT/COMMUNITY OUTREACH
◦“Sociocultural
Diversity in China,” lectures presented to UVM faculty and staff in preparation
for 60 Chinese students coming to study at UVM, Spring
2010 and Fall 2010.
◦“Sociocultural
Diversity in China,” presented to high school students attending Governor’s
Institute on Asia, June 2003, June 2005, June 2006, June 2007, June 2009 and
June 2010.
◦“Chinese Culture and Society” presented to
teachers attending National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, sponsored by
the Five College Center for East Asia Studies, Montpelier, Vermont, March 28,
2009.
◦“Chinese Minorities in Yunnan Province,”
presented to students at Essex High School, March 13, 2008.
◦“Chinese Minorities and the Hui,”
presented to Asian Studies Outreach Program, UVM, May
19, 2007.
◦“Chinese History and Culture,” five hour
lecture presented to teachers attending the National
Consortium for Teaching About Asia, Five
College Center for East Asia Studies, Montpelier, Vermont, Jan. 27,
2007.
◦“Issues of Efficacy in Chinese Medicine,”
presented to alternative healing student suite, Living and Learning, UVM, April
2006.
◦"Diversity in China," presented to
teachers in Asian Studies Outreach Program, June 2005.
◦"China's Multicultural Mosaic,"
presented to teachers in Asian Studies Outreach Program, July 2003.
◦"Ethnic Minorities and Diversity in
China," presented to high school students participating in the Governor's
Institute on Asia in Vermont, June 2002.
◦"Sociocultural
Diversity in China: A Focus on Ethnic Minorities," presented to high
school students participating in Governor's Institute on Asia in Vermont, June
28, 2001.
◦"Value Systems and Sociocultural
Diversity in China," presented to high school students participating in
the Governor's Institute on Asia in Vermont, June 23, 2001.
◦"Sociocultural
Diversity in China: A Focus on Regional Variation," presented to school
teachers participating in the Asian Studies Outreach Program in Vermont, June
2, 2001.
◦"Economic and Political Effects on East
Asia of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks and America's War Against
the Taliban," presented to Anthropology Club, UVM, Oct. 2001.
◦"Value Systems in Chinese Culture,"
presented to high school students participating in the Governor's Institute on
Asia in Vermont, Spring 1999.
◦Several lectures on traditional and modern
value systems in Chinese culture and cultural and regional diversity in China
for Asian Studies Outreach Program, Spring 1999.
◦"Chinese Conceptions of the
Lifecycle," presented to high school students participating in the
Governor’s Institute on Asia in Vermont, Fall
1998.
◦"Chinese Debates Over
Romance, Sex, and Marriage in Later Life," presented to Anthropology Club
at UVM, Feb. 1998.
ADVISING
GENERAL
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Advisor to
Undergraduates in Anthropology, Health IDMs, etcetera:
◦In Spring 2011, a total of 24 students listed
as my advisees on Banner system, including 23 Anthropology majors and 1 student
with another major.
◦In Spring 2010, a total of 32 students listed
as my advisees on Banner system (Jan. 21, 2010), including 24 Anthropology
majors, 1 Asian Studies major, 1 Health IDM, and 6 other students.
◦In Spring 2009, a total of 49 students listed
as my advisees on Banner system (Feb. 17, 2009), including:26
Anthropology majors, 16 Asian Studies majors, 1 Health IDM, and 4 other
students.
◦During spring 2009, I also had some additional advising
related to directing the Asian Studies Program which had 43 majors and 12
minors and chairing the Asian Languages and Literatures Department which
had 32 Japanese minors and 21 Chinese minors (Banner,
Feb. 17, 2009).
◦I also regularly advise students interested in
social studies of health, including self-designed health studies majors (global
health, international health, public health, alternative healing) and
pre-health students with an interest in medical anthropology.
◦TAP freshmen seminar advising: 17 freshmen in
2006, 18 in 2005, 27 in 2003-04, and 17 in 1999-2000.
◦Advising materials on my website at
www.uvm.edu/~jlshea and my blog at http://jlshea.blog.uvm..edu.
ADVISING
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
Dissertation
Committees:
◦Adam Gonzalez, Committee Chair, Ph.D dissertation, Anxiety sensitivity, mindfulness and
HIV-related distress, Department of Psychology, UVM, Spring 2011.
◦Kristin Weibust,
Committee Chair, Ph.D dissertation, Effects of
Mortality Salience and Perceived Vulnerability on Risky and Preventative
Behaviors Related to HIV Infection, Department
of Psychology, UVM, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
◦Janna Linn Fikkan,
Committee Member, Ph.D dissertation, individual and
social psychology of dieting, Department of Psychology, UVM, Fall
2005-2008.
◦Vanitha Nair,
Committee Chair, Ph.D dissertation, rural health and
HIV in Vermont, Department of Psychology, UVM, February 2003-Spring 2005.
◦Debby King, Committee Chair, Ph.D dissertation, Chinese meditative arts in the
professional development of teachers, School of Education, UVM, July 2003-Fall
2004.
◦Jing Qi, Committee
Chair, Ph.D dissertation, power relations between
expatriate teachers and Chinese supervisors, School of Education, UVM, April 2003-Spring 2004.
◦Matthew Mishkind,
Committee Chair, Ph.D dissertation, organizational
culture in business, Department of Psychology, UVM, Spring
2000-October 2001.
◦Annie Farnsworth, Committee Chair, Ph.D dissertation, Chinese youth and their mental health,
Department of Psychology, UVM, Fall 2001-Winter
2003.
Master’s
Thesis Committees:
◦Loretta Charles, Committee Chair, M.A. thesis,
project on cultural competency comparison of Australian
and Indian students’ journals, School of Nursing, Advisor
Ricki Maltby, Spring-Fall
2011.
◦Siling Zhou,
Committee Chair, M.A. thesis, project comparing ancient English and ancient
Chinese
poetry, Department of English, UVM, Fall 2007-Spring 2011.
◦Linda Pervier,
Committee Member, M.A. thesis, translating a late nineteenth/early twentieth
century French serialized novel by a French-Canadian immigrant women in Lowell,
MA., Canadian Studies Program, UVM, Fall 2006-Spring
2007.
◦Kristin Weibust,
Committee Chair, M.A. thesis, stigma of death surrounding persons with
HIV/AIDS, Department of Psychology, UVM, Spring 2006-Spring 2007.
◦Lyn Morgan, Committee Chair, M.A. thesis,
menopause and aging among the Abenaki, School of
Nursing, UVM, Fall
1999-Spring 2002.
ADVISING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Senior
Thesis Committees:
◦Paul Chambers, Thesis Advisor, An Exploration
of the Roles of Camp Counselors in
Guiding Campers at Summer Camp, Senior Honors Thesis in Anthropology, Spring
2011-Spring 2012.
◦Robert Brenna, Committee Chair, ISharing and Face-to-Face Encounters with Objectively
Similar and Dissimilar Others, Senior Honors Thesis in Psychology, Spring 2011.
◦Kathryn Mitchell, Faculty Advisor (Co-Mentor),
Interventions in Malaria Prevention in Kamuli,
Uganda, Distinguished Senior Research Project for Independently Designed Major
in Epidemiology and Global Health, CALS, Fall 2010 [student decided to not to
revise and resubmit proposal as invited because review committee was requiring
quantitative survey research and she wished to do a qualitative study].
◦Moriah Stokes,
Faculty Advisor, Ideas and Applications of Holism Among Alternative Health
Promotion Practitioners, Senior Research Project for Independently Designed
Major in Alternative Healing and Health Promotion, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
◦Greta Mattessich,
Committee Chair, expressions of Chinese poetry, Asian Studies Program, UVM
(Spring 2009).
◦Marie Dardeno, Thesis
Advisor, research on HPV infection and stigma amongst U.S. college students,
Anthropology Department, UVM (Fall 2007-Spring 2008).
◦Ashley Bunnell,
Committee member, research on dysmennorhea and
acupuncture, IDM in Health Studies, UVM (Spring 2008).
◦Ari Nesper, Thesis
Advisor, neonatal treatment decision-making and ethics, Spring 2007-Fall 2008,
IDM in Global Health, UVM, (Spring 2007-Fall 2007).
◦Sadie Richards, Thesis Advisor, health NGOs in
Ghana, IDM in Global Health, John Dewey Honors Program, UVM (Fall 2006-Spring
2007).
◦Meg MacDonald, Thesis Advisor, identity and
childrearing among Chinese women immigrants to Vermont, Anthropology
Department, UVM (Fall 2005-Spring 2006).
◦Liz Kuttler, Committee Chair, relationship between perceived
parental sex attitudes, adolescent’s sexual self-perceptions, and eating
behavior, Psychology Department, UVM (Spring 2006).
◦Ashley Elliott, Committee
member, Traditional East Asian Medicine among
Vietnamese Immigrants to Vermont, Environmental Studies, UVM (Fall 2005-Spring
2006).
◦Jessica Zilsky,
Committee member, study of behavioral habituation, Psychology Department, UVM
(Spring 2004).
◦Mackenzie Rand, Committee
member, Ethnobotany of Vermont Native Americans,
Environmental Studies, UVM (Spring 2004).
◦Beth Moore, Committee member, environmental
education in young children, School of Education, UVM (Spring
2003-Spring 2004).
◦Tom Corr, Committee Chair, campus education concerning biased
behavior, Psychology Department, UVM (Fall 2002-Spring
2003).
◦Dan Cassidy, Committee Chair, differential college student
receptivity to HIV prevention education with respect to risk behavior,
Psychology Department, UVM (2003).
◦Beret Halverson, Committee member, cultural
aspects of community gardens, Environmental Studies, UVM (Fall
2001-Summer 2002).
◦Kate Mathieu, Committee
member, amputees in Namibia, Anthropology Department, UVM (Fall 1998).
Other Senior Thesis or Internship or Independent Research Advising:
◦Nikki Kleitzel,
independent research on institutionalization of children in Romania, presented
at UVM Student Research Conference, April 2011.
◦Casey Sexton, issues of teen pregnancy and childrearing through internship in a local agency and
library research, Women’s Studies, UVM (Spring 2006).
◦Allie Moffitt, anthropology
internship researching and cataloguing Egyptian vessels at the Fleming Museum,
UVM (Spring 2006).
◦Mary MacDonough,
anthropology internship in Fleming Museum researching and cataloguing
Melanesian and Indonesian cultural artifacts, UVM (Spring 2006).
◦Lila Buckley, pregnant Chinese women in
northern China and in Montréal, Anthropology Department, Middlebury
College (April 2003-2004).
MENTORING
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Mentor to Research
Assistants
◦Trained and mentored numerous undergraduate and
post-graduate research assistants through research grants, work study, course
credit, and volunteer mentoring experiences, 1998-present.
◦Invited by Ann Kroll Lerner, Undergraduate
Research Coordinator at the Honors College at UVM to speak at CUPS workshop on
including undergraduates in faculty research, 2011.
Mentor to Teaching
Assistants:
◦Trained and mentored numerous undergraduate
teaching assistants seeking work study, course credit, and volunteer mentoring
experiences, 1999-present.
Advisor to
Other Co-Curricular Activities:
◦Advisor to MEDLIFE undergraduate global health
group, spring 2008-present.
◦Led several UVM students to
Global Health Conference at Yale University (2008, 2010).
◦Led six UVM students to
medical anthropology conference at McGill University (Spring 2004).
◦Advisor to educational field trip of ten UVM
anthropology students from Senior Seminar and Anthropology Club to Northeastern
Anthropology Association meetings in Queens, NY; five students presented
academic papers, spring 2000.
◦Led Anthropology Club tours of New York City's
Chinatown (Spring 2000) and of Montréal's Chinatown (Fall 2000).
◦Advisor to Asian Cultural Exchange (ACE), a
student club promoting Asian cultural activities at UVM together with Asian
American Student Union to develop Asia-related campus activities, Sept.
1998-2001.
ACADEMIC SERVICE |
ACADEMIC
SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
Academic Affiliations
Anthropology Department 1998 - present
Asian Studies Program 1998 – present
Asian Languages and Literatures Department Spring 2009
Women's and Gender Studies Program 1998 - present
ALANA US Ethnic Studies Program 1998 - 2004
Area and International Studies 1998 -
present
Center for the Study of Aging/Center on Aging 1998 - present
The Graduate College 1999 - present
Canadian Studies Program 1999 – present
Institutional Review Board Fall 2009-present
◦Appointed member of Institutional Review Board
Human Subjects Committee for Behavioral Sciences at the University of Vermont –
attend
monthly IRB meetings, review research protocols, and assist
with development of qualitative IRB forms and materials. Full member fall 2009-
spring 2011. Alternate member fall 2011-present.
Pre-Health Advisory Committee Spring 2011
◦Appointed member of Pre-Health Advisory
Committee, which conducts medical school interviews with premed and post-bach. students planning to apply
to medical school.
Delegates Assembly Fall 2010-Spring 2011
◦Elected to fill one-year
opening on Delegates Assembly, Faculty Union.
Faculty
Mentor
Program Fall 2010-present
◦Assigned to serve as Faculty
Mentor to new tenure-track faculty member Mildred Beltre
in Studio Art.
University Chinese Foreign
student program Fall 2009-Fall 2011
◦Cultural consultant to the Chinese
undergraduate foreign student initiative of the International Student Success Task
Force at the University of
Vermont slated to matriculate 60 students from China
in 2010; gave two public lectures to campus community on sociocultural
issues in China
to help in preparations; arranged cultural exchange in
Fall 2011 with American students in an anthropology of China course.
Public Health TRI Working
Group Fall 2009-Spring 2010
◦Appointed member of Public Health Working
Group, Transdisciplinary Research Initiative, Charged
by Office of the Provost and President,
University of Vermont.
president's Commission for
Racial Diversity Fall 2005-Spring 2007
◦Appointed by President's Office; addresses
issues of diversity at UVM, including the six-credit diversity requirement;
member of webpage
faculty recruitment and retention subcommittees, the latter
of which conducted and analyzed qualitative interviews with university
administrators.
Faculty Senate Representative Fall 2006-Spring 2007
◦Elected to represent the
Anthropology Department at Faculty Senate meetings.
Aiken Lecture Series China
Committee Fall 2006-Fall 2007
◦Appointed by Dean to help in
generating ideas for conference on the economy, society, health, and environment
in China. Suggested
invitation of keynote speaker Nicholas Kristof.
Elections and Nominations
Committee June 1999 - June 2002
◦Elected Member of Elections and Nominations
Committee in College of Arts and Sciences, UVM
Service within Anthropology
Department January 1998 - present
◦Departmental
Curriculum Committee (1999, Fall 2005-Spr. 2007,
2009-2011).
◦Member of Faculty
Search Committees seeking: anthropologist focusing on food systems (Fall 2010-Spr. 2011), junior archaeologist (Fall 2006-Spr.
2007), and linguistic anthropologist (Fall 2001-Spr. 2002).
◦Department
Representative to the faculty union (2002-2004, 2005-2008, 2009-2011).
◦Chair of Faculty
Search for cultural anthropologist/preference for Muslim focus (Fall 2005-Spr. 2006).
◦Co-organizer
of Brown Bag Discussions (Spr. 2010).
◦RA/TA
Practicum Committee Member (Fall 2009).
◦Coordinator of Internships
(Fall 2005-Spr. 2007, 2009) & Independent
Studies (Fall 2005-Spr. 2006).
◦Faculty Senate
Representative (Fall 2006-Spr. 2007).
◦Interim
Acting Department Chair (July 15-21, 2006).
◦Departmental course
evaluation form revision committee (1998).
◦Took several UVM students to
Global Health Conference at Yale University (2008, 2010).
◦Took six UVM students to
medical anthropology conference at McGill University (Spr. 2004).
◦Led Senior Seminar/Anthropology Club trip to
Northeastern Anthropology Association conference in New York at which six UVM
students presented papers (April 2000).
◦Led Anthropology Club tours of New York City's
Chinatown (Spring 2000) and of Montréal's Chinatown (Fall 2000).
◦Participated in some
Anthropology Club meetings (1998-2003). Gave lectures about impacts of
9/11 terrorist attacks on East Asia (Fall 2001) and on Chinese Sexuality in
Later Life (1998).
Service within Asian Studies
Program January 1998 - present
◦Director of Asian Studies
(January –June 2009, June 2007-June 2008).
◦Asian Studies Program
curriculum committee member (Spr.2008).
◦Japanese language faculty
search committee member (April 2007-Spr. 2008).
◦Assisting with NEAAS
conference hosted by UVM (Summer-Fall 2010).
◦Arranged cultural exchange between
international students from China and American undergraduates in Anth 152: Chinese Culture and Society course.
◦Arranged campus visit,
lecture, and film screening by Professor Maris Gillette (Fall 2011).
◦Served on faculty research
funding committee with Professor Peter Seybolt and
helped to develop Asian Studies research colloquium series (1999).
◦Gave numerous lectures for Asian Studies
Outreach Program to Vermont school teachers (1998-present) and for the
Governor's Institute on Asia (1998-present).
◦Served as cultural
advisor/translator for UVM Outreach educational tours for Vermont teachers of Montréal's
Chinatown (September 2003) and Beijing, Hohot, and Qufu, China (June-July 2000).
◦Advisor to student club the
Asian Cultural Exchange (1999-2001) which sponsors cultural activites
such as taiqi demonstrations and cooking workshops.
Service within Asian
Languages Department Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
◦Acting Chair of Asian Languages
and Literatures Department (January - June 2009).
◦June Orientation Advising
Sessions (June 2009).
◦Japanese language faculty
search committee member (April 2007-Spr. 2008).
Service in Interdisciplinary
health studies Fall 2000-Present
◦Pre-Health Advisory Committee,
interviewed ten premed students and participated in committee evaluation of
eighty candidates, Spring 2011.
Faculty Advisor to university student club, Medlife, an undergraduate global health interest group
which does service learning on spring
break, Spring 2008-present.
◦Public Health Working Group Member, Transdisciplinary Research Initiative, Appointed by Office
of
the Provost and President, University of Vermont, Fall
2009.
◦Advising individually designed majors in social
studies of health.
◦Arranged in conjunction with
the Anthro.
Dept. and Asian Studies
Lintilhac Lecture Series to bring Dr. Arthur
Kleinman of Harvard
University to UVM to lecture on medical anthropology,
global health, and health and healing in Asia, April 2008,
◦Co-wrote successful Marsh Professor proposal in Fall 2007 to bring Berkeley anthropologist
Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes to UVM to
lecture on her research in medical anthropology, March 24-28,
2008.
◦Co-organizer, Problem-Based Learning Cmty, Health Challenges in 21st Century, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
◦Presented on social and
cultural issues in health to Interdisciplinary Cell-to-Society Seminar, 2007,
2009.
◦Exploration with UVM students and faculty of
possibilities for a future major or concentration in health, society, and
culture, public health, and global health.
◦Compiled list of UVM faculty and students
interested in interdisciplinary approaches health, healing, and health care for
Trans-Collegial
Committee on Health, the Clinical
and Translational Science Center, and Individually Designed Majors Program,
2007.
◦Organized Asian Health and Healing Symposium, a
conference bringing together international, national, and local researchers and
practitioners on Asian forms of health and healing or health, healing, and
health care in Asia; speakers from Indonesia, NYC, Boston, San Francisco, and
VT, April 2001.
◦Organized Interdisciplinary Health Colloquium,
with monthly lectures on sociocultural aspects of
health and healing by researchers and
practitioners from Burlington area; speakers from Anthropology, Psychology,
Sociology, Family Practice, Nursing, Center for Health and
Well-Being, and community midwifery,
September 2000 - May 2001.
Service within Women's Studies
Program January 1998 - present
◦Member of Women’s Studies Faculty Search
Steering Committee conducting an external search for a new Director of Women’s
Studies, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
◦Invited to serve on women's
studies curriculum committee (Fall 1998-Summer 2001).
◦Gave talk on gender and aging in China to
Women's Studies Lecture series (Spring 1998).
◦Participated in Faculty
Women's Caucus meetings (Fall 1999-2004, 2011).
Service within Canadian
Studies Program December 1999-present
◦Member of Search Committee for Director of
Canadian Studies appointed by Dean to elicit feedback from program faculty and
students and
make recommendations
(Fall 2005).
◦Contributed lectures on sociocultural
diversity in Montréal and on Chinese in the Canadian Mosaic to Continuing
Education seminars offered
during summer by Canadian Studies (2000, 2001) and gave lecture
on Stereotypes of Chinese People in Montréal in Fall Institute on Biased
Behavior (2001, 2005).
Service within Area and
International Studies Fall 1998-present
◦Participating in Executive
Council meetings (2007-09). Director of Asian Studies
(2009). Interim Director of Asian Studies (2007-2008).
◦Gave talk on “Culture, Language and Identity Among Montréal Chinese” (December 2003) and the “Effects of
Economic Reform on Health and Health Care” (Fall 1999) to International and
Area Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series.
Service within freshman
honors program Fall 2003
◦Invited to give instruction on diversity in
Vermont during the last week of October 2003 in module coordinated by Deborah Blom, entitled Who Owns the Past.
◦Organized screening of
Vermont film, Nosey Parker, and discussion of representations of Vermont
with director, John O'Brien, and Frank Bryan, Prof. of Vermont Studies. Part of
freshman enrichment course Vermont Studies 095.
ACADEMIC
SERVICE, COMMUNITY OUTREACH
◦Emcee for Chinese
language and culture performances, Vermont Chinese School Chinese New Year
Celebration, South Burlington Middle School, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
◦Gave lectures on
Chinese culture to students in Governor’s Institute on Asia, 2003, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
◦Lectures on Chinese cultural diversity,
geography, cuisine, gender issues, and ethnic minorities to NCTA
seminar on Chinese culture for K-12 teachers, Montpelier,
Jan.2007, Mar. 2009.
◦Guest
lecture on minorities in Yunnan, China, Essex High School, March 13, 2008.
◦Cultural advisor to
University of Vermont's Asian Outreach educational trip to visit the Chinese
community in Montréal, Sept. 2003.
◦Provided feedback to UVM researcher, Paul
Turner, on data collection in pilot study of techniques for patient-provider
communication concerning asthma, Summer 2003.
◦Provided editing advice on
research report on exodus of Chinese youth from Montréal to Christian Samfat, Exec.
Director, Chinese Neighborhood Society, Montréal, Dec. 2002.
◦Invited discussant for new immigrant seminar on
Adjusting to the Customs of Everyday Life in Montréal at Chinese Family
Services in Montréal by Claude Jinbin He, June 2002.
◦Gave lectures in seminar on sociocultural
diversity in Montréal to teachers in Canadian Studies Outreach program in
Montréal, Quebec, July 2000-2001.
◦Gave numerous lectures on Chinese culture to
K-12 educators in Asia Outreach Program UVM, and to students in Governor’s
Institute on Asia Program, 1998-present.
◦Provided cultural/historical instruction and
Chinese translation for Vermont educators on an Asian Studies Outreach Program
to Beijing, Hohot, and Qufu,
China, June-July 2000.
◦Presented “Ethnic and Sociocultural
Diversity in China” talk to teachers and students participating in youth
exchange with China, Leland and Gray Middle School, Jan. 2000.
ACADEMIC
SERVICE, REGIONAL/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
PEER
REVIEWER
◦Invited peer reviewer of submissions to
scholarly journals, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology,
Fall 2002-present, Maturitas: The European
Menopause Journal, Fall 2005-present, Modern
China, Spring 2006-present, Social
Science and Medicine, Summer 2006-present, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Summer
2006-present, Urban Anthropology,
Spring 2007-present, Chinese Medicine,
Spring 2007-present, China Perspectives,
Spring 2008-present, and Medical
Anthropology, 2010-present.
◦Invited peer reviewer of grant proposals
submitted to National Science Foundation, Fall
2008.
◦Contributed feedback on revision of new edition
of Charles Lindholm’s textbook, Culture and Identity, acknowledged in preface, Spring-Summer 2006.
CONFERENCE
PANEL DISCUSSANT, ORGANIZER, CHAIR
◦Organizer and Chair of panel on Circulating
Health: East Asian Interactions With Transnational
Medicine, proposed to American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference,
New Orleans, LA, Nov. 17-21, 2010.
◦Chair of panel on Ritual and Performance in
China and Taiwan, Northeastern Association for Asian Studies (NEAAS)
conference, Burlington, Vermont, Nov. 6, 2010.
◦Co-organizer of accepted panel “Reconfiguring
the Body/Self,” with Michelle Ramirez, for American Anthropological
Association, San Jose, CA, Fall 2006.
◦Invited
discussant on papers presented in panel on socioeconomic inequality and
household strategies at an international conference in honor of the late Dean
Joan Smith, at UVM, November 2006.
◦Invited discussant for panel Reconfiguring
Masculinities in Post-Colonial Cities: Linking the Past to the Present
chaired by Tiantian Zheng,
with co-discussant Anne Allison, American Anthropological Association
conference, Washington, D.C., Fall 2005.
◦Chaired China and Tibet session at Northeastern
Anthropological Association Conference, Burlington, VT, Spring
2003.
◦Organized/chaired panel on
"Culture, History, and the Life Course in East Asia," with
discussants Charlotte Ikels and Susan Long at Am. Anthro. Assoc.
Mtg., Nov. 1995.
PARTICIPANT
IN AAA ETHICS TASK FORCE BLOG
◦Contributed moderated blog entry to AAA Ethics
Task Force Blog concerning Draft Informed Consent Principle of the Code of
Ethics of American Anthropological Association,
http://blog.aaanet.org/ethics-task-force/ethics-task-force-draft-principle-informed-consent/#comments,
Spring 2011.
FACULTY
RESEARCH MENTOR
◦Qualitative research mentor to Prof. Cristina
Melvin, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, UVM, sabbatical project on
hospice in Australia, Spring 2006-Summer 2007.
MCGILL
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF AGING MEMBER
◦Development of grant for intergenerational
project, planning research on ethnic diversity and aging in Montréal, and
participation in committee meetings in Montréal, Fall 1998-2003.
MEMBERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Anthropological Association (AAA) Society
for Medical Anthropology (SMA)
Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology (CAMA) Society
for Psychological Anthropology (SPA)
American Ethnological Society (AES) Association for Feminist
Anthropology (AFA)
East Asian Interest Group (EAIG of the AAA) NE
Anthropological Association (NEAA, 2000-2003)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) New Engl. Assoc. for Asian
Studies (NEAAS, 1999)
Aging Special Interest Group (ASIG of the AAA) American Association for
Gerontology (AAGE)
Chinese Women’s Studies Association (CWSA) Intl.
Assoc..Study of Trad. Asian
Med. (IASTAM, 2007-2008)
McGill Center for Study of Aging (1998-2003) Assoc.
Francophone pour le Savoir (Acfas, 2002-03)
PARTICIPATION
IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, Montreal,
QC November
2011
Cultural Awareness Day, Medical School, Burlington, VT May
4, 2011
Association for Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, HI Mar.
30-April 4, 2011
From Social Suffering to Caregiving,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Mar.
4, 2011
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, New
Orleans, LA Nov.
17-21, 2010
New England Association for Asian Studies Conference,
Burlington, VT Nov.
6, 2010
Global Health Conference, Yale University, New Haven,
CT Apr. 17-18, 2010
Gerontology Conference, Burlington, Vermont Apr. 16, 2010
Center on Aging Research Day, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT Mar.
23, 2010
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference,
Philadelphia, PA Dec.
2-6, 2009
Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, Yale
University Sept.
24-27, 2009
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, San
Francisco, CA Nov.
19-23, 2008
Yunnan Health & Development Research Assoc.
Meeting, Kunming, China Jul.
19, 2008
ICAES International Anthropology Conference, Kunming,
China (mtg. cancelled) Jul.
16-23, 2008
Harvard Yenching Conference
on Development in China, Cambridge, MA Apr.
25-26, 2008
Global Health Conference, Yale University Apr. 12-13, 2008
Golden Mountain: China & Canada Interconnected,
McCord Museum, Montreal Nov. 2,
2007
New Departures in Cultural Study of Medical Anthro, Fudan U, Shanghai Oct. 20-24, 2007
Cell to Society Interdisciplinary Seminar, Burlington,
VT Oct.
4-5, 2007
International Conference on Chinese Sexualities, Renmin University, Beijing Jun.
18-20, 2007
Global Health Conference, St. Michael’s College, Winooski,
VT Apr.
26, 2007
Integrating Chinese Medicine Into W. Health Care, U of Westminster, London Apr. 19-22, 2007
Association for Asian Studies Conference,
Boston, MA Mar.
22-25, 2007
Translating Identities Conference,
Burlington, VT Feb.
24, 2007
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, San Jose,
CA Nov. 15-19, 2006
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference,
Washington, DC Nov.
2005
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, San
Francisco (mtg. cancelled) Fall
2004
Northeastern Medical Anthropology Conference,
Montréal, PQ Spr.
2004
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, Chicago,
IL Nov. 2003
Canada Seminar: The Changing Map of Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada May
2003
Cultural Awareness Day, Medical School, Burlington, VT Apr.
2003
Northeastern Anthropological Assoc. Conference,
Burlington, VT Mar.
2003
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, New
Orleans, LA Nov.
2002
Association
Francophone pour le Savoir Conference, Quebec City, PQ May
2002
Cultural Awareness Day, Medical School, Burlington, VT May
2002
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference,
Washington, DC Nov.
2001
Cultural Awareness Day, Medical School, Burlington, VT May
2001
Asian Health and Healing Symposium, Burlington, VT Apr.
2001
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, San
Francisco, CA Nov.
2000
International Congress on Asian Studies, Montréal, Quebec Aug. 2000
Northeastern Anthropological Assoc. Conference, Queens
NY Apr.
2000
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, Chicago,
IL Nov. 1999
Abenaki Conference, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Nov.
1999
New England Asian Studies Assoc. Conference, New
Haven, CT Oct.
1999
Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston, MA Mar.
1999
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference,
Philadelphia, PA Dec.
1998
New England Asian Studies Assoc. Conference, Boston,
MA Oct. 1998
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, San
Francisco, CA Nov.
1996
Medical Anthropology of Chinese Societies, Taibei, Taiwan Aug. 1996
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference, Atlanta,
GA Nov. 1995
American Anthropological Assoc. Conference,
Washington, DC Nov.
1994