University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Anthropology

22 Pages·2016·0.57 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Krause

CURRICULUM VITAE

ELIZABETH L. KRAUSE
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Anthropology
205 Machmer Hall
Amherst, MA 01003
[email protected]

EDUCATION

1999 Ph.D. Anthropology, The University of Arizona
Dissertation: “Natalism and Nationalism: The Political Economy of Love,
Labor and Low Fertility in Central Italy”

1992 M.A. Oregon State University, Applied Anthropology
Thesis: “Slippery Paths: Connections and Divergences between Historic
Preservation and Tourism in Micronesia”

1984 B.J. The University of Missouri-Columbia, Journalism
Colorado College, Liberal Arts
Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Arts of London and Florence

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2012-present Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2013-14 Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

2006-2012 Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2000-06 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biopolitics of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology;
embodiment; ethnography and writing culture; immigration; globalization; Italy and United States

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

External Awards

2015 National Science Foundation, “Chinese Immigration and Family Encounters in Italy” (BCS
1157218), Supplement, Research Experience for Graduate Students (REG), Diasporic
Heritage and Overseas Chinese, on behalf of Ying Li, May 1, 2015-April 30, 2016 (PI,
$5,000).
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2013 Polgar Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, Best Article, “They Just Happened”: The
Curious Case of the Unplanned Baby, Italian Low Fertility, and the “End” of Rationality,
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26(3):361–382. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 22, 2013 ($500).

2013-14 National Humanities Center, Fellow, 2013-14, “Tight Knit: Familistic Encounters in a
Transnational Fast-Fashion Zone,” Research Triangle Park, NC. (PI, $50,998).

2012-15 Ford Foundation, “Hear Our Stories: Diasporic Youth for Sexual and Reproductive Health,”
in response to the RFP, “Sexuality, Health and Rights Among Youth in the United States:
Transforming Public Policy and Public Understanding Through Social Science Research,”
December 1, 2012-November 30, 2014 (Co-PI with Aline Gubrium, $500,000).

2012-15 National Science Foundation, “Chinese Immigration and Family Encounters in Italy” (BCS-
1157218), June 1, 2012-May 31, 2014 (PI, $164,419).

2012-13 Wenner-Gren Foundation, International Collaborative Research Grant, (ICRG-114), “Tight
Knit: Familistic Encounters in a Fast-Fashion District,” July 1, 2012-Dec. 31, 2013 (PI with
Co-Applicant Massimo Bressan, $34,741).

2011 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Supervisor, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to aid research of
doctoral candidate Boone Shear on "Making the Green Economy: Culture, Politics and
Economic Desire in Massachusetts" ($19,980).

2010-11 National Science Foundation, International Experience for Students “Cultural Heritage in
European Societies and Spaces” (Award OISE-098575): Awarded through University of
Massachusetts Department of Anthropology. (PIs: Dr. Krista Harper and Dr. Jacqueline
Urla; Senior Faculty Field Supervisor, Dr. Elizabeth Krause, cohort 2010-11; $150,000).

2007 Pima Education Research Collaborative “2020 Vision: A Survey of Pima County Youth”
(Co-PI with Cecilia Rios-Aguilar and Eliane Rubinstein-Avila, $10,000).

2006 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Supervisor, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, to aid research of
doctoral candidate Milena Marchesi, “Remaking Subjects: Cultural Politics, Practices, and
Technologies of Fertility in Italy” ($20,800).

2005 Wenner-Gren Foundation, Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship. “Fertile Protest: Memory,
Demographic Decline and Economic Angst in Italy.” Awarded for 12 months full-time
writing, January 2005-2006 (PI, $40,000).

2004 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, to support research of
doctoral candidate, Ramón Solórzano. “For Spanish, Press Two—Investigating the
Mediation of Racial and Linguistic Diversity Via Language Interface Technology" (UM
Proposal No. 104-1157) (PI, $8,290).

1998 Beth Dillingham Award, Central States Anthropological Society.

1996 U.S. Fulbright Grant (renewal; September 1996-July 1997).

1995 U.S. Fulbright Grant and Summer Stipend (October 1995-August 1996)

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1995 Council for European Studies, Pre-Dissertation Fellowship.

1991 Peter K. New Award in Applied Social Science.

Internal Awards

2015 Research Support Award, Massachusetts Society of Professors ($1,000)

2015 Public Engagement Project, Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst ($2,000).

2011 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of
Massachusetts Amherst ($1,000).

2011 Center for Research on Families, Family Research Scholar 2011-12, University of
Massachusetts Amherst.

2010 Davis Integrative Education Fellowship, Anthropology Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst ($1,250).

2010 Faculty Research Grant, “Dynamics of Decision Making in Large Groups: Case of the Amherst
Town Meeting” (Co-PI with Anurag Sharma, $15,000).

2009 Mellon Mutual Mentoring for Mid-Career Women Associate Professors at UMass Amherst.
(Co-PI with Mari Castañeda, $8,650).

2008 Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Arts and Humanities (ISHA), Fellow, “Public Thought, Public
Art, Public Effect,” UMASS Amherst ($500).

2008 Senior Capstone Course Development Award, Department of Anthropology ($2,500).

2003 Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Unraveling Italy’s Population
Paradox: Popular Memory and the Subterranean Story of Straw Weavers and Wetnurses
($10,000).

2003 Community Service Learning Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst ($1,000).

2002 Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

1999 William Shirley Fulton Scholarship, The University of Arizona.

1999 Final Project Fund Award, The University of Arizona.

1998 Graduate College Fellowship, The University of Arizona.

1995 Graduate College Fellowship, The University of Arizona.

1993 The Edward P. Dozier Award, Best Paper, The University of Arizona.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books
2009 Krause, Elizabeth L. Unraveled: A Weaver’s Tale of Life Gone Modern. Berkeley: University
of California Press.

2005 Krause, Elizabeth L. A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy. Case
Studies on Contemporary Social Issues. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Articles and Chapters (peer-reviewed)
2016 Gubrium, Aline C., Alice Fiddian-Green, Kasey Jernigan, and Elizabeth L. Krause. Bodies
As Evidence: Mapping New Terrain for Teen Pregnancy and Parenting. Global Public
Health http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1143522.

2015 Krause, Elizabeth L. “Fistful of Tears”: Encounters with Transnational Affect, Chinese
Immigrants and Italian Fast Fashion. Cambio 5(10): 27–40. Special Issue on Work and
Difference, edited by Massimo Bressan and Sebastiano Ceschi.
http://www.cambio.unifi.it/upload/sub/Numero%2010/06_Krause.pdf

2015 Krause, Elizabeth L. The Value of Money: A Fresh Glimpse of Globalization and the Case
of Prato. Prato Storia & Arte 117 (June):100–110. Prato: Fondazione Cassa Risparmio di
Prato.

2015 C. Marjorie Aelion, Aline Gubrium, Felicity Aulino, Elizabeth L. Krause, Thomas
Leatherman. Bridging Graduate Education in Public Health and the Liberal Arts. American
Journal of Public Health 105:S78-S82.

2014 Aline Gubrium, Elizabeth L. Krause, and Kasey Jernigan. Strategic Authenticity and
Voice: New Ways of Seeing and Being Seen as Young Mothers through Digital Storytelling.
Sexuality Research and Social Policy 11:337–347.

2014 Krause, Elizabeth L., and Silvia De Zordo. Ethnography and Biopolitics: Tracing
“Rationalities” of Reproduction across the North-South Divide. Introduction to
Reproduction and Biopolitics: Ethnographies of Governance, “Irrationality” and Resistance,
Silvia De Zordo and Milena Marchesi, eds. London: Routledge. [Reprint.]

2014 Bressan, Massimo, and Elizabeth L. Krause. “Ho un luogo dove lavoro e un luogo dove
abito.” Diversità e separazione in un distretto industriale in transizione (“I have a place
where I work and a place where I live”: Diversity and Separation in an Industrial District in
Transition), Mondi Migranti 8(1): 59–81.

2013 Krause, Elizabeth L. and Anurag Sharma. “Calling the Question”: The Politics of Time in
a Time of Polarized Politics. Cambio 3(6): 13–26.
http://www.cambio.unifi.it/upload/sub/Numero6/05_Krause_Sharma.pdf

2013 Krause, Elizabeth L. Challenging the Common Sense of Birth-Heritage Politics. World
Geography: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, Web. 27 Aug. 2013.

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2013 Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘Empty Cradles’ and the Quiet Revolution: Demographic Discourse
and Cultural Struggles of Gender, Race, and Class in Italy. In Contemporary Cultures,
Global Connections: Anthropology for the 21st Century, Victoria Bernal, ed. Pp. 393–424.
San Diego: CA: Cognella Inc. [Reprint.]

2012 Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘They Just Happened’: The Curious Case of the Unplanned Baby,
Italian Low Fertility, and the ‘End’ of Rationality. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
26(3):361–382. (Winner of the Polgar Prize for best article, November 2013.)

2012 Krause, Elizabeth L. “È successo”: Lo strano caso dei bambini non programmati e la ‘fine’
della razionalità. In Culture della nascita. Orizzonti della maternità tra saperi e servizi,
Gianfranca Raniso, ed. Napoli: Dante & Descartes.

2012 Krause, Elizabeth L., and Silvia De Zordo. Ethnography and Biopolitics: Tracing
‘Rationalities’ of Reproduction across the North-South Divide, Introduction to Special Issue
of Anthropology and Medicine 19(2):137-151. Silvia De Zordo and Milena Marchesi, eds.

2012 Krause, Elizabeth L., and Anurag Sharma. Sustainability “Wars” in a New England Town
Futures (44):631-641.

2011 Krause, Elizabeth L. Carnival, a ‘Sold’ Woman, and Wet Economies: Challenges of making
peasants the subjects of history. In SM Annali di San Michele 24/2011, Carnival King of
Europe/Carnevale re d’Europa: Potere, Ritualità e i Popoli Senza Storia. Giornate di Studio
in Onore di Eric R. Wolf (1923-1999), nel Decennale della Scomparsa, Giovanni Kezich
and Antonella Mott, eds. Pp. 463-470. San Michele all’Adige: Museo degli Usi e Costumi
della Gente Trentina.

2011 Terrio, Susan, Aryah Somers, Olivia Faries, Cecilia Menjívar, Elizabeth L. Krause, and
Stuart Lustig. Voice, Agency and Vulnerability: The Immigration of Children through
Systems of Protection and Enforcement. International Migration 49(5):1-23.

2011 Krause, Elizabeth L. The Challenge of Giving Voice. International Migration 49(5):19-21.

2007 Krause, Elizabeth L. Memory and Meaning: Genealogy of a Fertile Protest. Journal of
Modern Italian Studies 12(4):406-416.

2007 Krause, Elizabeth L. and Milena Marchesi. Fertility Politics as ‘Social Viagra’: Reproducing
Boundaries, Social Cohesion and Modernity in Italy. American Anthropologist 109(2):350-
362.

2006 Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘You Have to Start with Something’: Towards an Ethnographic
Research Agenda for Modern Italy. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 11(3):393-403.

2006 Krause, Elizabeth L. Dangerous Demographies and the Scientific Manufacture of Fear. The
Corner House, Briefing paper No. 36, http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/.

2005 Krause, Elizabeth L. Encounters with ‘the Peasant’: Memory Work, Masculinity, and Low
Fertility in Italy. American Ethnologist 32(4):593-617.

2005 Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘Toys and Perfumes’: Imploding Italy’s Population Paradox and
Motherly Myths. In Barren States: The Population ‘Implosion’ in Europe. Carrie B.

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Douglass, ed. Pp. 159-182. London: Berg. Winner: Most Notable Recent Edited Collection,
Council on the Anthropology of Reproduction (2006).

In Press Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘Part-Way Home’: Reflections on the Future of an Anthropology of
Europe. University of Massachusetts Research Report Series, Papers in Honor of John Cole.
Bob Paynter, ed. (Accepted August 4, 2005.)

2003 Krause, Elizabeth L. Italy. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide:
Europe. Pp. 341-372. Lynn Walter, ed. Westport, CN: Greenwood Publishing Group.

2001 Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘Empty Cradles’ and the Quiet Revolution: Demographic Discourse
and Cultural Struggles of Gender, Race, and Class in Italy. Cultural Anthropology
16(4):576-611.

1998 Krause, Elizabeth L. ‘The Bead of Raw Sweat in a Field of Dainty Perspirers’: Nationalism,
Whiteness, and the Olympic Class Ordeal of Tonya Harding. Transforming Anthropology
(7)1:33-52.

1994 Krause, Elizabeth L. Forward vs. Reverse Gear: Politics of Proliferation and Resistance in
the Italian Fascist State. Journal of Historical Sociology 7(3):261-288.

1992 Krause, Elizabeth L. The Looking Glass of Historic Preservation: A Reflection of
Modernization and Changing Values. Human Organization 51(2): 97–201.

Articles and Chapters (under review)
In Review Krause, Elizabeth L., and Massimo Bressan. Encountering Value in the Circulation of
Children: Global Households, Flexible Families, and Fast-Fashion Networks. American
Ethnologist. (Submitted February 1, 2016).

In Review Sharma, Anurag, and Elizabeth L. Krause. A Process Model of Intergroup Conflict, Journal
of Management Studies. (Submitted June 22, 2015.)

In Review The Turn toward Memory: From History’s ‘Little People’ to Anthropology’s ‘Others.’
Ethnohistory. (Submitted July 13, 2010.)

In Review Translating Popular Memory: Making Sense of a Straw Weaver’s Global Tale of Markets,
Kin, and Abandonment. In Translation and/as Ethnographic Practice. Susan M. diGiacomo
and Catherine Tihanyi, eds. Under contract for publication in Encounters series, Jan
Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. (Submitted
March 24, 2004.)

Book Reviews and Review Essays
2015 Review of Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy: Mobbing, Well-being, and the Workplace.
Noelle J. Molé, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2012. 212 pp. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly DOI 10.1111/maq.12142.

2012 Doing Fieldwork and Writing Anthropology. Review Essay of Being There: The Fieldwork
Encounter and the Making of Truth. John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi (eds.).
Berkeley, CA, and London, UK: University of California Press, 2009. viii + 280 pp; and
Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Alisse Waterston and Maria D.

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Vesperi (eds.). Forward by Cheryl Mwaria. Malden, MA, and Chichester, West Sussex, UK:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xvi + 213 pp. Transforming Anthropology 20(2):189-192.

2012 Review of The Italian Way: Food & Social Life. Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli. Chicago
and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2009. 311 pp. South European Society &
Politics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2012.710446

2011 Review of Developing Skill, Developing Vision: Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps.
Cristina Grasseni. New York and Oxford: Berghan Books. 2009. xii+212pp. Ethos 40(2).

2010 Extraordinary Ethnography. Review of Ordinary Affects. Kathleen Stewart. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2007. Anthropology & Humanism 35(1):124-126.

2008 Review of Sheltering Women: Negotiating Gender and Violence in Northern Italy. Sonja
Plesset. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006. Journal of Anthropological Research 64
(Spring):96-97.

2007 Review of Carol Helstosky, Garlic & Oil: Food and Politics in Italy. Oxford: Berg, 2006. South
European Society & Politics 12(2):255-57.

2003 Review Essay of Raffaele Corso, La vita sessuale nelle credenze, pratiche e tradizioni popolari
italiane. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 8(1):108-111.

Short Articles, Op-Ed, and Creative Work
2015 Gubrium, Aline, and Elizabeth L. Krause. Senate's Proposed 2016 Budget Turns a Deaf Ear to
the Needs of Young Families, April 24, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aline-
gubrium/senates-proposed-2016-budget-turns-a-deaf-ear-to-the-needs-of-young-
families_b_7138980.html
2015 Gubrium, Aline, and Elizabeth L. Krause. New Milwaukee Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Campaign is Misguided, Cruel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 22, 2015.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/new-milwaukee-teen-pregnancy-prevention-
campaign-is-misguided-cruel-b99430708z1-289486121.html
2014 Krause, Elizabeth L., and Massimo Bressan. Slow Rites, Fast Wrongs. Truthout.org, July,
http://truth-out.org/opinion.
2013 My Trouble with the Anti-Essentialist Struggle. Anthropology News. http://www.anthropology-
news.org/index.php/2013/01/10/my-trouble-with-the-anti-essentialist-struggle/.
2010 Preview of the 2010 Meeting, Society for the Anthropology of Europe Section News, October,
Anthropology News 51(7):55.
2010 Memories of Conflict Featured in SAE Distinguished Lecture, Society for the Anthropology of
Europe Section News, November, Anthropology News 51(8):48.
2009 Writing as Politics, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Section News, May,
Anthropology News 50(5):46.
2008 Intimate Borton School Puts the Children First, Guest Opinion, The Arizona Daily Star April 3:
A9.
2007 The Evolution of the Family. UMASS Amherst (Summer).
http://umassmag.com/2007/Summer2007/Features/evolution_family.html
2007 From Explosion to Implosion: A Call for Population Skepticism. DifferenTakes 46 (Spring
2007):1-4.
2007 From Explosion to Implosion: A Call for Population Skepticism. In Babies, Burdens and
Threats: Current Faces of Population Control. Pp. 13-16. Amherst: Population and
Development Program. http://popdev.hampshire.edu.

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2005 In Search of Community Conscious Capitalism, Anthropology Newsletter 46(2 February):41-
42.
2002 Olympic Might. Newsday (Sunday) February 12, 2002: B4, B7. (Invited)
1985 “My Blues,” (short story) Midlands, University of Missouri Press, (juried), Spring.
1985 “Spanning Separation in Florence,” (poem) Midlands, University of Missouri Press, (juried),
Spring.

Blogs and Web Sites
2014 Hear Our Stories: Promoting Sexual Rights and Social Justice in Solidarity with Young
Parenting Women, http://www.umass.edu/hearourstories/ (launched December 2014).
2015 Global Bodies: Digital Stories from an Integrative Experience Course in Anthropology,
http://blogs.umass.edu/globalbo/, (launched May 2015).
2010 Global Bodies Blog: Digital Stories from an Anthropology Senior Capstone.
2009 Elizabeth L. Krause (personal blog), http://blogs.umass.edu/ekrause/
2009 Memory, Narrative & Community: A blog featuring digital stories from ANTH397.
http://blogs.umass.edu/anthro397mm-ekrause-2/

Professional Presentations
2016 (invited) “Absolutely Made In Italy”: Disaporic Entrepreneurs, Fast Fashion, and Far-Flung
Families, presented at the workshop “The entrepreneur and the broker: Mediating
transregional flow, scale and belonging,” A Workshop of the CETREN Transregional
Research Network, organized by Lisa Björkman and Nellie Chu, Georg August University,
Gottingen, Germany January 14–15, 2016.
2015a (invited) Unfamiliar Plots, Strange Tempos: Conundrums and Action in a Made in Italy District
in Transition (with Massimo Bressan), presented on the panel “Temporalities in
Ethnographic Fieldwork: Dealing with Past and Future in the European Crisis,” co-
organized by Elizabeth L. Krause and Susana Narotzky. Co-invited by the Society for the
Anthropology of Europe and the Society for Economic Anthropology.,114th Annual Meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 21, 2015.
2015b “Doing My Life”: Traversing Commonsense Logic on Value and Ways of Young Expectant and
Parenting Women,” (with Aline Gubrium), presented on the panel “Familiar Stories, Strange
Methods: Enchanting Knowledge and Encountering Inequality through Multi-Sensory
Narratives,” co-organized by Aline Gubrium and Elizabeth L. Krause. 114th Annual Meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 21, 2015.
2015c “Intimate Nation”: The Politics of Parenting and Citizenship, Discussant. Panel organized by
Anouk de Koning, Denver, 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, November 22, 2015.
2015d (with Aline Gubrium), 6th International Digital Storytelling Conference, Voices of Change:
Storywork in Activism, Education, and Public Service. Amherst, MA, September 26.
2015e “Fistful of Tears”: Encounters with Transnational Affect, Chinese Immigrants and Italian Fast
Fashion (with Massimo Bressan), presented on the panel Governance and Affective Circuits
of Care in African and Asian Migrations to Europe, organized by Pamela Feldman-
Savelsberg, 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies,
Sciences Po, Paris, July 8-10.
2015f (invited) I Bambini Cinesi tra I Poli della Migrazione (Chinese children between Migratory
Poles), Seminario di Etnospicologia: Per una clinica contemporanea dei bambini e degli
adolescent, Istituto degli Innocenti—Salone Brunelleschi, Florence, 22 May.
2015g (invited) Digital Storytelling as Narrative Shock: New Views on Young Parenting Latinas,
Migration, and Family (with Aline Gubrium). Columbia Oral History MA Program,
Columbia University, New York, April 30.

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2015h Development from the Diaspora: Reciprocity and Its Applications (with Massimo Bressan).
Paper presented as part of the panel “Rethinking Development from Below: Post, Neo, or
Nothing New?” co-organized by Amber Wutich and Melissa Beresford. Society for Applied
Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2015.
2015i New Views on Young Parenting Latinas’ Migration and Family (with Aline Gubrium). Society
for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2015.
2014a “Fistful of Tears”: Encounters with Transnational Affect, Chinese Immigrants and Italian Fast
Fashion. Paper presented on the panel Governance, Transnational Migration, and Affective
Circuits, co-organized by Cati Coe and Pamela Feldman-Savelsbergm at the 113th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 3-7.
2014b (invited) Famiglie flessibili nell'economia globale: Il movimento dei bambini cinesi tra i poli
della migrazione, le ripercussioni sulla presa in carico del bambino cinese nella Salute
Mentale Infanzia e Adolescenza di Prato, co-presented with Massimo Bressan. Corso di
formazione (training course). Sala delle Vele, USL 4, Prato. July 3.
2014c New Ways of Seeing and being Seen as a Young Mother through Digital Storytelling. Aline
Gubrium, Elizabeth L. Krause, Kasey Jernigan, Panel on Engaging Participatory Visual and
Digital Research, Part I: Health, Environment, and Community Building, Society for
Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, N.M., March 19, 2014.
2014d (invited) Value, chapter from book manuscript, Tight Knit: A Biography of Globalization,
presented at the Social Science Research Seminar, Wake Forest University, January 30.
2013a Flexible Families and Fast Fashion: What Circulates besides Children? With Massimo Bressan
and Fangli Xu. Paper in preparation for the session, Along the Crossroads of Flexible Kin
and Flexible Labor: Performing Gender and Envisioning Future Collectivities, co-organized
by Nellie Chu and Elizabeth L. Krause, 112th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 22.
2013b Hear Our Stories: Promoting Collaboration and Engagement through Digital Storytelling, with
Aline Gubrium. Paper in preparation for the session Engaging Possibilities Beyond the
Academy: The Role of Anthropology in Community-Based and Activist Research,
organized by Ashley Sherry for the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Chicago, November 22.
2013c Storytelling, organizing and policy advocacy as a tool for supporting young pregnant and
parenting Latinas. With Youth Presenter, Youth Presenter, Jessica González-Rojas, Candace
Gibson, Elizabeth Guerra, Karina Garcia, Aline Gubrium, and Elizabeth Krause. 141st
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, November 5.
2013d Crooked Capitalism and the Circulation of Children: Considerations and Consequences, with
Massimo Bressan (Iris) and Fangli Xu (Iris). Paper in preparation for 6th Chinese in Prato
and 4th Wenzhouese Diaspora Symposia, “Chinese migration, entrepreneurship and
development in the new global economy,” 29-30 October, Monash University, Prato, Italy.
2013e (submitted) Flussi transnazionali di lavoro e significato. La gestione della diversità e dei
conflitti in un distretto industrial in transizione, co-author with Massimo Bressan, 4°
Seminario Tracce Urbane “Processi di ri-appropriazione della città. Pratiche, luoghi e
immaginari,” Roma,17-19 June.
2013f (invited) Encounter Ethnography and Cosmologies of Fast Fashion. Talk presented at Villa Le
Balze, Georgetown University, Fiesole, Italy, March 26.
2013g Cosmologies of Fast Fashion. Society for Economic Anthropology. Poster presented at the
Society for Economic Anthropology conference, Washington University, St. Louis, April
12-14.
2012a (invited) Fast Fashion & Transnational Tots. Paper presented in the session Transnational
Migration and Family Decision Making, organized by Vanessa Fong for the 111th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, co-invited by the Council on

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Education and Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, San Francisco,
November 15.
2012b Beyond Student Economicus: Challenging Capitalocentrism with The Gift. Paper presented in
the session “Re-imagining the Economy With The Gift,” organized by Boone Shear for the
track “Alternative and Non-Capitalist Political Ecologies,” at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the
Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, March 27-31.
2012c Support or Surveillance? Encounter Ethnography in a Fast-Fashion District. Paper presented in
the session, “Immigrant Exclusion and Belonging in Europe: State Policies, Personal
Politics,” organized by Carolyn Sargent, Nineteenth International Conference of
Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Boston, MA, March 22-24.
2011 (invited) ‘We Are the Chinese’: Flexibility, Fertility, and A Dire Future. Paper presented at the
conference Shenzhen+China, Utopias+Dystopias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
March 12.
2010a Literary Readings, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, special session prepared by Kent
Maynard for the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New
Orleans, November.
2010b Fertile In/Securities: Bodies, Boundaries and Babies. Paper presented at the 17th International
Conference of the Council for European Studies, in the session European (In)Securities II:
Immigrants, Boundaries, and Moralities. Co-Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology
of Europe, Montreal, April 16.
2010c (invited keynote) Beyond Fear and Conventionality. Paper presented at the Annual
Anthropology/Sociology Senior Symposium, Wheaton College, February 4.
2009a The “Problem” of Low Fertility and Other Tales. Circolo Italiano. Amherst, December 13.
2009b (invited) Literary Readings, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, special session prepared by
Kent Maynard for the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Philadelphia, December 5.
2009c ‘They Just Happened:’ The Curious Case of the Unplanned Baby and the ‘End’ of Rationality.
Paper presented in the session “Closing Disciplinary Divides,” organized by Maya Judd, at
the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia,
December 3.
2009d (invited) Carnival, a “Sold” Woman, and Wet Economies: Challenges of making peasants the
subjects of history. Paper presented at the conference Carnival King of Europe: Power, ritual
and the people without history; in honor of Eric R. Wolf (1923-1999). Museo degli Usi e
Costumi della Gente Trentina, San Michele all’Adige, Italy. November 7.
2009e “They Just Happened”: The Curious Case of the Unplanned Baby and the “End” of Rationality.
In the session, Childbearing, Fertility, and Infertility, organized by Vanessa Fong. Society
for Medical Anthropology, Yale University, September 26.
2009f (invited keynote) A Delicate Dilemma: Proliferating Pronatalist Policy. Institute of Global
Health, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Russian physicians and politicians. April 27.
2009g (invited) Graduate English Conference Committee. Roundtable on Interdisciplinarity,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 4.
2008a Discussant, “Irrational” Reproduction: Population Politics and Practices at the Intersections of
North and South, session prepared for the 107th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 22.
2008b La crisi delle nascite. Politiche demografiche e strategie di formazione della famiglia in Italia.
(Invited seminar.) Facoltà di Psicologia, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Caserta,
Italy, July 9.
2007a A Manifesto for Voice. Paper presented in the session Blurred Genres and the Search for
Justice. Reviewed by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. 106th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. December 1.

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