 (PhD, U California-Berkeley, 1993; Assoc Prof; Women's and Gender Studies, SAS) Cultural politics, ethnicity, nationalism and transnationalism, diaspora, gender and sexuality, representation, media, postcoloniality, postsocialism; China, Asian American, US
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LOUISA SCHEIN
Associate Professor
Departments of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Rutgers University
131 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, May, 1993
Columbia University, Exchange Scholar Program, 1986-87
M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, May, 1984
B.A., Independent (Interdisciplinary) Concentration and Religious Studies Concentration, Brown University, June, 1981, Magna Cum Laude
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology , Rutgers University, 2000-present
Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, 2004-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, 1993-2000
Affiliate Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Rutgers University, 1994-present
Affiliate Faculty Member, Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, 1994-present
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space. Co-edited with Tim Oakes. 2006. London: Routledge.
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics . 2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In series "Body, Commodity, Text" edited by Arjun Appadurai, Jean Comaroff, and Judith Farquhar. Click here for description.
Forthcoming:
Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Co-edited with Purnima Mankekar. Duke University Press.
In Prep:
Rewind to Home: Hmong Media and Gendered Diaspora
JOURNAL ISSUES:
Media, Globalization and Sexuality. Special cluster for Journal of Asian Studies 63(2): 2004 (co-edited with Purnima Mankekar).
Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization. Special issue of Society and Space (co-edited with Jasbir Puar and Dereka Rushbrook) 21(4): 2003.
Re-Imagining Chinese Mobilities and Spaces. Special issue of Provincial China 8(1): April 2003 (co-edited with Tim Oakes).
East Asian Sexualities. Special issue of East Asia 18(4) 2000.
MEDIA:
Producer/Director, Hmong Speak Out on Gran Torino: A Discussion with the Hmong Actors at University of Minnesota, February 20, 2009. Screened on KBTV Sacramento/Fresno June 7, 14, 2009.
Producer/Director (with Va-Megn Thoj), Video Documentary Project on Hmong medical worlds, Shamans, Herbs and MDs, in production, 2006-present.
Co-Producer (with Director Peter O'Neill), Hmong Immigrants: A Generation Later (Sequel to The Best Place to Live), in post-production, 2001-present.
Co-Producer (with Peter O’Neill and Ralph Rugoff), The Hmong in Providence Documentary Project, Rhode Island, 55-minute documentary for public television entitled: The Best Place to Live: A Personal Story of Hmong Refugees from Laos, 1981.
MAJOR ARTICLES:
Published Articles:
“Gran Torino's Boys and Men with Guns: Hmong Perspectives." 2009. Hmong Studies Journal, Vol. 10 (Dec.): 1-52.
“Violence, Hmong American Visibility and the Precariousness of Asian Race.” 2008 (Oct.). Co-authored with Va-Megn Thoj. PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association). Correspondents at Large section on Comparative Racialization. Vol 123 (5): 1752-1756.
“Text and Transnational Subjectification: Media’s Challenge to Anthropology.” 2008. In Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, George Marcus and Neni Panourgiá, eds. Pp. 188-213. New York: Fordham University.
“Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures” In Privatizing China. Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang, eds. Pp. 103-119. Cornell: Cornell University Press.
“Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident: A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker Va-Megn Thoj.” 2007. American Quarterly 59(4), December: Pp.1051-1095. Reprinted in: Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. Jean Wu and Thomas Chen, eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, forthcoming.
“Diasporic Media and Hmong/Miao Formulations of Nativeness and Displacement.” 2007. In Indigenous Experience Today, Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn, eds. Pp. 225-245. Oxford: Berg.
“Negotiating Scale: Miao Women at a Distance.” 2006. In Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space, Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein, eds. Pp. 213-237. London: Routledge.
“Translocal China: An Introduction.” 2006. With Tim Oakes. In Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space, Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein, eds. Pp. 1-35. London: Routledge.
“Minorities, Homelands and Methods.” 2005. In China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism. Pal Nyiri and Joanna Breidenbach, eds. Pp. 99-140. Budapest: Central European University Press.
“Ethnoconsumerism as Cultural Production? Making Space for Miao Style.” 2005. In Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. Jing Wang ed. Pp. 150-170. London: Routledge.
“Marrying Out of Place: Hmong/Miao Women Across and Beyond China.” 2005. In Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. Nicole Constable, ed. Pp. 53-79. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
“Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics” with Purnima Mankekar. 2004. Journal of Asian Studies 63(2):357-365.
“Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video.” 2004. Journal of Asian Studies 63(2):433-463. Reprinted in: Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Co-edited with Purnima Mankekar (forthcoming).
“Hmong/Miao Transnationality: Identity Beyond Culture.” 2004. In Hmong/Miao in Asia. Nicholas Tapp, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas, and Gary Yia Lee, eds. Pp. 273-290. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books.
“Minzu Fuzhuang, Wenhua ji Fazhan” [Ethnic Clothing, Culture and Development]. 2003. In Chinese. Shehui Xingbie, Minzu, Shequ Fazhan Yanjiu Wenji [Researches on Gender, Ethnicity and Community Development]. Zhang Xiao, Xu Wu, He Zhonghua, Ma Linying, and Han Jialing, eds. Pp. 370-379. Guiyang: Guizhou Nationalities Press.
“Introduction: Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization” with Jasbir Puar and Dereka Rushbrook. 2003. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21(4):383-387.
“Ethnicizing Production and Consumption: The Miao, The Media, and the Market.” 2002. In State, Market and Ethnic Groups Contextualized: Papers from the Third International Conference on Sinology. Bien Chiang and Ho Ts’ui-p’ing, eds. Pp. 437-471. Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica.
“Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism.” 2002. Provincial China 7(1):57-72. Reprinted in: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds. Pp. 216-223. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
“Approaches to Transnationalism and Diaspora Research: Researching the Hmong Diaspora’s Longing for a Chinese Homeland.” 2002. In China Inside Out (On-line textbook). Pal Nyiri, ed. Budapest: Central European University Press.
"Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space." 2002. In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, eds. Pp. 229-244. Berkeley: University of California Press.
"Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s?" 2001. In Whither China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China. Xudong Zhang, ed. Pp. 285-314. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
"Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption.” 2001. In Ethnographies of the Urban: China in the 1990s. Nancy Chen, Connie Clark, Suzanne Gottschang, Lyn Jeffrey, eds. Pp. 225-241. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
"Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics and the Materializing of Memory.” 1999. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7(3): 697-729.
"Of Cargo and Satellites: Imagined Cosmopolitanism." 1999. Postcolonial Studies 2(3): 345-375.
"Performing Modernity." 1999. Cultural Anthropology 14(3):361-395. Translated as: “Biaoyan Xiandaixing.” 2001. In Translation Collection on Gender, Ethnicity and Development (Shehui Xingbie, Zuyi, Shequ Fazhan Yixuan). Ma Yuanxi, ed. Pp. 210-244. Beijing: China Books Press.
"Importing Miao Brethren to Hmong America: A Not So Stateless Transnationalism." 1998. In Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation. Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins, eds. Pp. 163-191. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
"Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism." 1998. Comparative Urban and Community Research 6. Special Issue: "Transnationalism from Below": 291-313. Reprinted in: Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America. 2000. Martin Manalansan, ed. Pp. 199-215. Philadephia: Temple University Press.
"Gender and Internal Orientalism in China." 1997. Modern China 23(1): 69-98. Reprinted in: Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: An Introductory Reader, Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. Translated as: "Shehui Xingbie yu Zhongguo de Neibu Dongfangzhuyi." 1999. In Selected Translations on Gender and Development (Shehui Xingbie yu Fazhan Yiwenji). Pp. 86-106. Tianjin: Chinese Society for Women's Studies.
"The Other Goes to Market: The State, The Nation, and Unruliness in Contemporary China." 1996. Identities 2(3):197-222. Reprinted as: "The Other Goes to Market: Gender, Sexuality, and Unruliness in Post-Mao China." In Women and Revolution: Global Expressions. 1998. M.J. Diamond, ed. Pp. 363-383. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
"Multiple Alterities: The Contouring of Gender in Miao and Chinese Nationalisms." 1996. In Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality. Brackette Williams, ed. Pp. 79-102. New York: Routledge.
"The Consumption of Color and the Politics of White Skin in Post-Mao China." 1994. Social Text 41:141-164. Reprinted in: The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. 1997. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds. Pp. 471-484. New York: Routledge. (Abridged).
"The Dynamics of Cultural Revival Among the Miao in Guizhou." 1989. In Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups in China. Chien Chiao and Nicholas Tapp, eds. Pp. 199-212. Hong Kong: Chinese University.
"Meiguo Mosaide Shi de Miaozu Jumin" (The Hmong in Merced, United States) (Li Song, trans.). 1988. Social Sciences in Southeast Guizhou. Nos. 1-2.
"The Control of Contrast: Lao-Hmong Refugees in American Contexts." 1987. In People in Upheaval. Elizabeth Colson and Scott Morgan, eds. Pp. 88-107. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies.
"The Miao in Contemporary China: A Preliminary Overview." 1985. In The Hmong in Transition. Glenn Hendricks et al, eds. Pp. 73-85. Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies.
"Miao/Hmong Textile Arts: Costume and Commerce." 1985. Focus on Asian Studies IV (3): 4-13. Translated as: "Miaozu he Tamen de Gongyipin" (The Miao and Their Handicrafts) (Feng Xianyi, trans.). 1986. Journal of the Guizhou Nationalities Institute. Fall.
Forthcoming:
“Trans/Mediations: Erotics, Sociality, and ‘Asia’.” With Purnima Mankekar. In Media, Globalization and Asian Erotics. Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds. Duke University Press.
“Flexible Celebrity: A Half Century of Miao Pop.” In Celebrity China. Louise Edwards and Elaine Jeffreys, eds.
Under Review:
“Perpetual Warriors, Ill-Fitting Immigrants and Other Hmong American Masculinities.” For Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique.
In Prep:
“Pop, Publicity and the People’s Congress: A You Duo’s Mediated Lives.”
“The Body of the Hmong Transnational Suitor.”
Other Articles and Media Publications:
“Making Gran Torino: The Hmong Story on Blu-Ray.” Hmong Today, June 1, 2009. Pp. 16-17.
“Gran Torino Opens at Number One! Doua Moua’s Big Night at New York Premier.” Hmong Today, January 16, 2009, Pp. 10-11.
“Eastwood’s Next Film Features Hmong American Cast: Exclusive Interviews from the set of ‘Gran Torino’.” AsianWeek Vol 29, No. 7, October 3, 2008, pp. 12, 29. Web version: http://www.asianweek.com/2008/10/03/eastwoods-next-film-features-hmong-american-cast-exclusive-interviews-from-the-set-of-gran-torino/
“Persistent Invisibility: Hmong Americans are Silenced.” (With the Critical Hmong Studies Collective). AsianWeek, September 12, 2008, p. 5. Web version: http://www.asianweek.com/2008/09/13/persistent-invisibility-hmong-americans-are-silenced/
“Hmong Actors Making History Part 2: Meet the Gran Torino Family.” Hmong Today Sept 1, 2008, pp.10-11. Web version: http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2590
“Hmong Actors Making History Part 1: The Bad Guys of Gran Torino.” Hmong Today August 16, 2008, pp. 12-13. Web version: http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2542. Reprinted in:
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9c74f65fbd40944ddeba5271a1013bd0
Letter to the Editor, New York Times Magazine, May 31, 2008, p. 10.
“Knowledge, Authority and Hmong Invisibility.” Co-authored with Dia Cha, Leena Her, Pao Lee, Ly Chong Thong Jalao, Chia Youyee Vang, Ma Vang, Yang S. Xiong, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, web version http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_10828.shtml, March 14, 2008. Reprinted in: Asian American Press, XXVII (14) April 4: 5, 9.
“A General’s Changing Presence: Why Did Vang Pao’s Arrest Become a Unifying Event for So Many?” Op ed. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Tuesday, July 3, 2007: 7B.
“Cha Mee Xiong is on the Move Again.” Hmong Today, Friday, December 22, 2006: 17.
“Famous Sculptor Reaching Back to Miao Roots.” Hmong Today, Friday, November 17, 2006: 18-19.
“A You Duo: Chinese Pop Star Showcases Her Miao Heritage.” Hmong Today, Friday, October 13, 2006: 12-13. http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2355. Reprinted as: “Tus Ntxhais Hmoob Hu Njkauj Nto Npe Nyob Suavteb” (in Hmong). Hmong Today Tuesday, July 1, 2008: 22-23.
“Working Together in and Beyond the Classroom.” 2005. Beyond Polarities: A Handbook on Queer Issues for All. Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Rutgers University: 41-2.
HONORS AND AWARDS
New America Media Minnesota Ethnic and Community Media Award, Arts and Culture Division Third Place, with Wameng Moua, for reporting on Gran Torino in “Hmong Actors Making History Part 1: The Bad Guys of Gran Torino.” Hmong Today August 16, 2008, pp. 12-13.
Committee to Advance our Common Purposes Award, “Highlighting Asian Americans: A Spring Event Series” Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Rutgers University, 2005-6.
Institute for Research on Women Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2005-6
Bildner Intercultural Fellowship, “War, Terror and Displacement: Asian American Perspectives,” Office of Undergraduate Education, Rutgers University, 2005
Early Response Grant for video documentary project with Peter O’Neill “Hmong Immigrants: A Generation Later,” Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, 2003.
Bildner Intercultural Fellowship, “Curricular Strategies for Teaching War and Terror,” Office of Undergraduate Education, Rutgers University, 2003
Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University, 2000
TEACHING AREAS
Cultural politics, social theory, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, transnationalism, race and ethnicity, media, visual anthropology, popular culture, postcolonial studies, Chinese society, Asian Americans, diaspora.
LANGUAGES
Chinese, advanced
French, intermediate
Miao (Hmu), intermediate
Hmong, basic |
