Name:             Carrie Lane Chet

Mailing Address:        Professor Carrie Lane Chet

                                    Department of American Studies

800 N. State College Blvd., UH 313

California State University, Fullerton

Fullerton, CA 92834

Phone:             714-278-7329

Fax:                 714-278-5820

E-mail:            cchet@fullerton.edu

Website:         http://hss.fullerton.edu/amst/faculty/cchet.asp

Degrees:        

Degree:           Ph.D.

Discipline:       American Studies

School:            Yale University

Date:               2005

Degree:           B.A.

Discipline:       Cultural Anthropology

School:            Princeton University

Date:               1997

Major Influences on Your Professional Life (Professors, Colleagues, Students – please be specific):

The strongest influence on my professional life has been my dissertation advisor, Professor Kathryn Dudley of Yale University. Kate’s commitment to her scholarship, writing, teaching, and advising, as well as her warmth, professionalism, candor, and support were and continue to be an invaluable part of my professional life. I also have the good fortune to teach in an American Studies department where, despite my status as the anthropologist, I receive constant support and inspiration from my wonderful colleagues, most of whom are themselves historians. As a new professor, my students have played a major role in shaping not only my courses, but also my sense of myself as a teacher, mentor, and advisor to budding scholars.

Subfields of interest within Anthropology:

Anthropology of Work; Anthropology of the U.S.; Ethnographic Research, Writing, and Ethics; American Community Studies; Anthropology of Consumption; Feminist Anthropology; Globalization of Labor

Interests in the Anthropology of Work:

 White-collar work and workers; corporate anthropology; corporate and labor history; organizational anthropology; American middle classes

Regions of specialization and Languages:

United States; English and Hebrew

Major Publications (for those with extensive vitas, please limit to 3 or 4 publications):

What I’m Worth: White-Collar Unemployment in a Global Economy (completed manuscript).   Under Review.

Editor and contributor. The Offshore Outsourcing of White-Collar and Professional Work: Culture, Labor, and Capital in the Global Marketplace. In Preparation.

“Teaching Work to Workers.” Anthropology News 46:9 (December 2005).

“Like Exporting Baseball to Japan: US Tech Workers Respond to Offshoring” Anthropology of Work Review (November 2005).

“Work and Unemployment in the Global Labor Market.” Anthropology News 46: 3 (March 2005).

Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):

My current manuscript, What I’m Worth: White Collar Unemployment in a Global Economy, is an interdisciplinary ethnographic study of unemployment and jobseeking in the Dallas high-technology industry. This text explores changing meanings of work and success for middle-class professionals and investigates structural and cultural shifts around corporate employment, job loss, and professional self-worth in the contemporary United States. It also considers how jobseekers’ conceptions of global competition and faith in the market economy shape their personal job search strategies and broader political activism.

My next project will be an ethnographic study of service workers in Southern California.