Professor, Department of Anthropology
Jan English-Lueck received her doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, studying social change and community among alternative health practitioners . This research resulted in the book, Health in the New Age: A Study in California Holistic Practices. She went on to investigate visions of the future among science and technology workers in the People's Republic and Hong Kong, resulting in the book Chinese Intellectuals on the World Frontier.
Since 1991 she has been working with Chuck Darrah at San Jose State developing the Silicon Valley Cultures Project (SVCP). In the course of this research, she has investigated information technologies in the homespace and workplace, and the complex dance of work, home and community life in Silicon Valley and other global technopols. Her new book, Cultures@SiliconValley is now available. She is a research affiliate of the Institute for the Future. For more information, visit her faculty homepage or the homepage for The Silicon Valley Cultures Project. For information on her new book, Busier than Ever, visit our faculty news page.
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Since 1991 she has been working with Chuck Darrah at San Jose State developing the Silicon Valley Cultures Project (SVCP). In the course of this research, she has investigated information technologies in the homespace and workplace, and the complex dance of work, home and community life in Silicon Valley and other global technopols. Her new book, Cultures@SiliconValley is now available. She is a research affiliate of the Institute for the Future. For more information, visit her faculty homepage or the homepage for The Silicon Valley Cultures Project. For information on her new book, Busier than Ever, visit our faculty news page.
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About Jan English-Lueck
Jan English-Lueck received her doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, studying social change and community among alternative health practitioners . This research resulted in the book, Health in the New Age: A Study in California Holistic Practices. She went on to investigate visions of the future among science and technology workers in the People's Republic and Hong Kong, resulting in the book Chinese Intellectuals on the World Frontier.
Since 1991 she has been working with Chuck Darrah at San Jose State developing the Silicon Valley Cultures Project (SVCP). In the course of this research, she has investigated information technologies in the homespace and workplace, and the complex dance of work, home and community life in Silicon Valley and other global technopols. Her new book, Cultures@SiliconValley is now available. She is a research affiliate of the Institute for the Future. For more information, visit her faculty homepage or the homepage for The Silicon Valley Cultures Project. For information on her new book, Busier than Ever, visit our faculty news page.
Since 1991 she has been working with Chuck Darrah at San Jose State developing the Silicon Valley Cultures Project (SVCP). In the course of this research, she has investigated information technologies in the homespace and workplace, and the complex dance of work, home and community life in Silicon Valley and other global technopols. Her new book, Cultures@SiliconValley is now available. She is a research affiliate of the Institute for the Future. For more information, visit her faculty homepage or the homepage for The Silicon Valley Cultures Project. For information on her new book, Busier than Ever, visit our faculty news page.
| Present | Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Anthropology | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2008 | Sabbatical |
| Silicon Valley Cultures Project | |
| Writing a book manuscripts as part of the Silicon Valley Cultures Project and preliminary research in China | |
| 2005 - 2006 | Competitive Faculty Development Grant |
| San Jose State University | |
| Lottery Funds Travel Grant | |
| 2003 - 2004 | Competitive Faculty Development Grant (with Dr. Darrah) |
| San Jose State University | |
| Lottery Funds Travel Grant | |
| 2002 | California State University Social Science Research Grant and Competitive Faculty Development Gran |
| California State University | |
| 1998 - 2001 | Families and Work: An Ethnography of Dual Career Families in Silicon Valley |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant | |
| Role: Co-Author | |
| $342,801 | |
| 1998 - 2000 | Work, Identity and Community in Silicon Valley |
| National Science Foundation | |
| National Science Foundation Grant | |
| Role: Primary Author | |
| $49,984 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2008 - 2011 | Member, American Anthropological Association Awards Advisory Committee on the Diana Forsythe Prize | 2005 - 2008 | Board Member, Southwestern Anthropological Association | 2006 - 2007 | Executive Director, Southwestern Anthropological Association | 2004 - 2005 | Past-President, Southwestern Anthropological Association | 2003 - 2004 | President, Southwestern Anthropological Association | 1999 - 2001 | Member, American Anthropological Association Awards Advisory Committee on the Robert Textor Prize | 1998 - 2001 | Northern California Representative, Board Member, Southwestern Anthropological Association |
Honors and Awards
- 2010 SJSU President and Provost‟s Community Engagement and Service Learning Award, Collaborative Project (with students Maribel Martinez, Mayra Cerda, Michelle Nero, Auda Velaquez Rivera, Mary Kosovich and undergraduates David Valpey and Carl de Soto)
- 2007 Provost‟s Assessment Award College of Social Sciences Assessment Committee (represented Anthropology department in that committee)
- 2006 Diana Forsythe Prize for Cultures@SiliconValley. Excellence for feminist ethnographic work on science and technology. American Anthropological Association.
- 2004 Outstanding Professor. San Jose State University. Presidential Teaching Award.
- 2004 Austen Warburton Award for Excellence in Scholarship. College of Social Sciences. San Jose State University.
- 2001 Presidential Merit Award. San Jose State University.
- 2000 Presidential Merit Award. San Jose State University.
- 1998 Election to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
- 1997-1998 Faculty in Residence for Diversity, Institute of Teaching and Learning, San Jose State University.
- 1996-1997 San Jose State University Teacher Scholar representing Social Sciences
- 1996 Made Research Affiliate for the Institute for the Future. Menlo Park, California.
- 1991 East-West Center Award for Summer Workshop on developing intercultural curricula, Honolulu, HI.
- 1989-1990 Model Teacher, second place, Chengdu University of Science and Technology, P.R. China.
- 1977-1979 California State Fellowship.
- 1978 University of California Patent Fund Award.
- 1976-1977 California Regents Fellowship
- 2019 President’s Scholar, San Jose State University
| 1985 | PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara ‐ Anthropology | |
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| 1978 | M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara ‐ Anthropology | |
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| 1976 | B.A., California State University, Fresno ‐ Anthropology | |
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Links
Contact Information
jan.english-lueck@sjsu.edu
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