Jennifer Hirsch

Lecturer (Ph.D. Duke 2000)

Director, Chicago Field Studies Program

University Hall, Room 001

1897 Sheridan Road

(847) 491-7419

j-hirsch@northwestern.edu

http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/cfs/

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS: Cultural Anthropology, gender, culture, and work, grassroots activism, identity politics, diversity, global capitalism, experiential education (including academic internships and service-learning), ethnographic methods, Japan, United States.

Jennifer Hirsch is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Chicago Field Studies Program, which is an academic internship program in WCAS. She was the Assistant and Associate Director of Study Abroad at Northwestern from 2000-2005. She has conducted research on gender, culture, and work in Japan and on grassroots activism in the U.S. South. She lived in Japan for four years and also studied abroad in Spain and Mexico. In addition to her teaching and administrative work at Northwestern, she is active in the Evanston and Chicago communities. Together with her mother, Penny Hirsch, who is a faculty member in Northwestern’s Writing Program, she facilitates writing classes at Grace House, a transitional home in Chicago for women recently released from prison. She also volunteers at Ten Thousand Villages, a fair trade store on Main Street in Evanston. Many of her activities on campus—including her teaching—are greatly influenced by these ties. Her primary goal in teaching is to make connections between the university and its surrounding communities and to help students engage with and think critically about the world around them and, through this process, develop new ways of thinking about themselves.

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT

Anthropology of Northwestern (freshman seminar)

Field Studies in the Modern Workplace: Organizational Behavior & Qualitative Research Methods (Chicago Field Studies-an academic internship program)

Reading and Writing Culture: A Course for Study Abroad Returnees (International Studies)

PUBLICATIONS/ PAPERS/ CONFERENCES

2004	“Evaluating External Programs.” A section of the chapter, “Program Evaluation.” In NAFSA’s Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators.
2004	“Subtle Differences: Finding Culture in Countries that Feel Like Home.” Proposed, co-edited, and wrote the introduction for this features section of Abroad View Magazine
2000	"Culture, Gender, and Work in Japan: A Case Study of a Woman in Management.” Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, June, 28 (2): 248-269.
1999	"Grassroots Networking in Global Times: A Case Study." Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Arlington, VA). November.
1999	"Building Collective Identities in Global Times: A Study of the Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Chicago, IL) November. Back to top of page