Evelyn Nakano Glenn
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Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a Professor
of Gender & Women's Studies
and of Ethnic Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley
. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities she serves as Founding Director of the University's Center for Race and Gender (CRG). The CRG is a leading U.S. academic center for the study of intersectionality among gender, race and class social groups and institutions. In June 2008 Prof. Glenn was elected President of the 15,000 member American Sociological Association
. She served as President-elect during the 2008-2009 academic year, assumed her presidency at the annual ASA national convention in San Francisco in August 2009, served as President of the Association during the 2009-2010 year, and continued to serve on the ASA governing Council as Past-president until August 2011. Her Presidential Address, given at the 2010 meetings in Atlanta, was entitled "Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion, Subordination, and Resistance," and was printed as the lead article in the American Sociological Review (2011, 76(1) 1-24).
Prof. Glenn's scholarly work focuses on the dynamics of race, gender, and class in processes of inequality and exclusion. Her early research documented the work and family lives of heretofore neglected women of color in domestic service and women in clerical occupations. This work drew her into historical research on the race and gender structure of local labor markets and the consequences of labor market position on workers, including the forms of resistance available to them. Most recently she has engaged in comparative analysis of race and gender in the construction of labor and citizenship across different regions of the United States
.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn is author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride (Temple University Press), Unequal Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2002), "From Servitude to Service Work" (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society), and Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America (Harvard University Press, 2010). She is also editor of Mothering (Routledge), and Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (Stanford University Press, 2009). She is also author of many journal articles, reviews, and commentaries. A review of her most recent book, Forced to Care stated, "Glenn's prose is concise and elegantly crafted, and despite the complexity of the subject matter, the reader is swept along with the force of the narrative structure." (Karla A. Erickson, Contemporary Sociology (May 2011, Vol. 40, Number 3, pp. 309-310)).
of Nisei (second generation) parents, Glenn (a Sansei) was imprisoned from 1942–1945, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans in internment camps. Glenn's family was first assigned to live in the horse stables at a race track in Turlock, California
, and thereafter was sent to the Gila River camp in the Arizona
desert, and then to the Heart Mountain camp in the high country of Wyoming
. When her family was released in 1945 they moved to Chicago
, where Glenn was raised until the age of 16.
Prof. Glenn received her BA
from the University of California, Berkeley
, and her PhD
from Harvard University
. Her first academic position was as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University
; she has also taught at Florida State University
, Binghamton University
, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii
. She has been at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1990.
Glenn has been married to Gary Glenn since 1962; they have three children: Sara Haruye Jotoku, Antonia Grace Glenn, and Patrick Alexander Glenn. Glenn became a grandmother in February 2011 when her daughter Antonia gave birth to a boy, Kiyoshi Glenn-Horstein.
, race and social structures in the United States, and graduate seminars in gender, race, and class.
"Gender, Race and Citizenship," om Judith Lorber (ed) Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics (Roxbury, 2005).
"From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Fall 1992). (Reprinted in 12 separate anthologies and collections).
Professor
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of Gender & Women's Studies
Gender studies
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.Gender study has many different forms. One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"...
and of Ethnic Studies
Ethnic studies
Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the world in relation to ethnicity. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English, ethnology, Asian studies, and orientalism...
at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities she serves as Founding Director of the University's Center for Race and Gender (CRG). The CRG is a leading U.S. academic center for the study of intersectionality among gender, race and class social groups and institutions. In June 2008 Prof. Glenn was elected President of the 15,000 member American Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
. She served as President-elect during the 2008-2009 academic year, assumed her presidency at the annual ASA national convention in San Francisco in August 2009, served as President of the Association during the 2009-2010 year, and continued to serve on the ASA governing Council as Past-president until August 2011. Her Presidential Address, given at the 2010 meetings in Atlanta, was entitled "Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion, Subordination, and Resistance," and was printed as the lead article in the American Sociological Review (2011, 76(1) 1-24).
Prof. Glenn's scholarly work focuses on the dynamics of race, gender, and class in processes of inequality and exclusion. Her early research documented the work and family lives of heretofore neglected women of color in domestic service and women in clerical occupations. This work drew her into historical research on the race and gender structure of local labor markets and the consequences of labor market position on workers, including the forms of resistance available to them. Most recently she has engaged in comparative analysis of race and gender in the construction of labor and citizenship across different regions of the United States
United States
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.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn is author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride (Temple University Press), Unequal Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2002), "From Servitude to Service Work" (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society), and Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America (Harvard University Press, 2010). She is also editor of Mothering (Routledge), and Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (Stanford University Press, 2009). She is also author of many journal articles, reviews, and commentaries. A review of her most recent book, Forced to Care stated, "Glenn's prose is concise and elegantly crafted, and despite the complexity of the subject matter, the reader is swept along with the force of the narrative structure." (Karla A. Erickson, Contemporary Sociology (May 2011, Vol. 40, Number 3, pp. 309-310)).
Biography
Born in CaliforniaCalifornia
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of Nisei (second generation) parents, Glenn (a Sansei) was imprisoned from 1942–1945, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans in internment camps. Glenn's family was first assigned to live in the horse stables at a race track in Turlock, California
Turlock, California
Turlock is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States, part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census, Turlock had a population of 80,549, up from 55,810 at the 2000 census, making it the second-largest city in Stanislaus County.-Geography:Turlock lies in the...
, and thereafter was sent to the Gila River camp in the Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
desert, and then to the Heart Mountain camp in the high country of Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
. When her family was released in 1945 they moved to Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, where Glenn was raised until the age of 16.
Prof. Glenn received her BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, and her PhD
PHD
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from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Her first academic position was as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
; she has also taught at Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
, Binghamton University
Binghamton University
Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...
, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
. She has been at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1990.
Glenn has been married to Gary Glenn since 1962; they have three children: Sara Haruye Jotoku, Antonia Grace Glenn, and Patrick Alexander Glenn. Glenn became a grandmother in February 2011 when her daughter Antonia gave birth to a boy, Kiyoshi Glenn-Horstein.
Teaching
Glenn has taught a variety of courses having to do with research methods and theory in the social sciences, women and work, the Asian American family, comparative gender systemsGender systems
Gender systems are systems of gender roles in societies. A gender role is "everything that a person says and does to indicate to others or to the self the degree that one is either male, female, or androgynous...
, race and social structures in the United States, and graduate seminars in gender, race, and class.
Associations
- American Sociological Association, 1972–present (elected President in June 2008)
- Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1976–present (served as President, 1998–1999)
- Sociologists for Women in Society, 1983–present (served as Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Sociology, 2008)
- Pacific Sociological Association
- Council on Contemporary Families
- Massachusetts Sociological Association (President, 1979–80)
- Association for Asian American Studies
Awards
2011 Society for the Study of Social Problems, C.Wright Mills Award Finalist, for book 'Forced to Care.'- 2007 Sociologists for Women in Society, Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Feminist Sociology
- 2005 Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association "in recognition of outstanding scholarship that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society".
- 2004 Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian Americans, for Unequal Freedom.
- 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, for Unequal Freedom.
- 2003 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, for Unequal Freedom.
- 2003 Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class, for Unequal Freedom.
- 2001 Visiting Scholar, The Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1994 Outstanding Alumna Award, Japanese Women Alumnae of the University of California
- 1994 Nikei of the Bienniaum Award for Contributions to Education, Japanese American Citizens League
- 1993 Association of Black Women Historians, Leititia Woods Brown Memorial Article Prize for "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor."
Books
- Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America, Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (ed.) Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, Evelyn N. Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Forcey (eds), New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Issei, Nisei, Warbride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
- Hidden Aspects of Women's Work, Christine Bose, Roslyn Feldberg, and Natalie Sokoloff, with the Women and Work Research Group (eds), New York: Praeger, 1987.
Recent Articles
- "Caring and Inequality" in Sharon Harley et al. (eds), Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices, Rutgers University Press, 2007.
- "Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, But Who Is Listening?" in Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas L. Anderton and Michael Burawoy (eds), Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
- "Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Hawai'i," in Donna Gabaccia and Vicki Ruiz (eds.) American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
- "Race, Labor and Citizenship in Hawai'i," in Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.) American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006).
- "Citizenship and Inequality," in Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Anderson (eds.), Race and Ethnic in Society: The Changing Landscape (Wadsworth, 2006).
"Gender, Race and Citizenship," om Judith Lorber (ed) Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics (Roxbury, 2005).
- "Citizenship and Inequality: Historical and Global Perspectives" in A. Kathryn Stout, Richard A. Dellobuono, William Cambliss (eds), Social Problems, Law, and Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).
"From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Fall 1992). (Reprinted in 12 separate anthologies and collections).