Assistant Professor
Address:
631 PLC
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
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Phone:
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(541) 346-7102 |
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Fax:
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(541) 346-5026
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Email:
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otis@uoregon.edu
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Professor Otis received her B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in East Asian Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara, and an M.A,. as well as Ph.D., in Sociology from U.C. Davis. She served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Fairbank Center. Before coming to the University of Oregon, she was Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook. Her scholarship examines the gender, class and ethnic politics of new labor practices within China's emergent urban service sector. She recently published "Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Market-Embedded Labor and the Gender Organization of Global Service Work in China" in the American Sociological Review. Based on an ethnographic analysis of labor practices at two international hotels in two Chinese urban centers, the article puts forth a new framework for cross-regional comparison of service labor practices based on spatial, market and cultural dynamics that fundamentally diverge from those of industrial labor. She has also published in the American Behavioral Scientist, Qualitative Sociology, Politics and Society, and Contemporary Sociology. Her research has won awards from the Asia/Asian-American and the Sex and Gender sections of the American Sociological Association and from Sociologists for Women in Society.
Research Interests
- Global and comparative ethnography
- Gender, class and work
- Globalization
- Service sector
- China
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Teaching Areas
- Gender in China
- Globalization and Work
- Ethnography
- Consumption
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Courses Taught
Selected Articles
2008 “ Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Consumer Markets and the Gender Politics of Labor in China's Globalized Service Workplaces.” American Sociological Review 73:15-36.
2008 “Socialist Market Inequality.” Contemporary Sociology. 37:313-317.
2008 “The Two Faces of Luxury: Gender and Generational Inequality in a Beijing Luxury Service Workplace” in Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post-Socialist China edited by Deborah Davis and Wang Feng. Forthcoming: Stanford University Press.
2008 “The Dignity of Working Women: Virtuous Professionalism and the Labor Politics of Localization in China's City of Eternal Spring.” Forthcoming in American Behavioral Scientist.
2008 “Cultures of Service: From Emotion Work to Culture Work” Essay in The Handbook of Cultural Sociology edited by Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo, and John Hall. New York: Routledge.
Education
Ph.D. -- University of California, Davis
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