Janice Stockard, Anthropology
As a cultural anthropologist, Stockard’s research and writing is focused on gender, marriage, family, and technological change. Her early specialization in the area of Chinese culture and society led her into the field in South China, where she explored the effects of changing technology in the textile industry on local marriage and family practices. After conducting more than 300 interviews with Cantonese women, she wrote her first book, Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930, which was published by Stanford University Press. Subsequent research and writing projects, in a comparative and cross-cultural context, included Marriage in Culture: Practice and Meaning Across Diverse Societies, published by Harcourt in 2001; an anthology, Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in One World, Living in Another (co-edited with George Spindler), published by Wadsworth in 2007; and a new manuscript, “Silk Road to New England: Culture and Technology in the Connecticut Silk Industry, 1760-1840.” Stockard is currently serving on the advisory board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (www.anitaborg.org) and on the social science advisory board of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (www.ncwit.org). She is a Series Editor for Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (Wadsworth). Prior teaching engagements include Stanford University, Connecticut College, Mills College, and Bennington College in 2003. BA, MA, and PhD, Stanford University. She will be a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the 2007-08 academic year.
More...
|
Faculty
