Frances Abrahamer Rothstein                                        Tel:  212-666-0527 (h)

Office Phone: 973-655-3317 (w)                                    Fax: 973-655-7755

E-mail: rothsteinf@mail.montclair.edu

Employment:                                              

Montclair State University Professor of Anthropology  (2007-present)   

Montclair, NJ 07043-1640

Towson University, Professor of Anthropology (1974- 2007)                                               

Towson, MD 21204

Education: University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology         Ph.D., 1974

Field Work Experience:  Mexico, U.S.A

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards (since 1990):

Fulbright-Garcia Robles Award,  Research and Teaching (San Cosme Mazatecochoco and Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico). Fall, 2001.

National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Pattern and Diver­sity: Economic Development and Women's Labor Force Participa­tion," (with Beth Vanfossen).  Cross-national analysis of women and development in 120 nations ($79,851). July, 1992 - July 1993.

Primary Fields of Interest: Gender, Migration, Political Economy, Latin America, Globalization, Industrializa­tion, Development, Anthro­pological Theory, American Culture.

Courses Taught (since 1990): Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Globalization (also in Spanish, Antropología de la Globalización), Multicultural America, Native Latin Americans, Anthro­pological Theory, Political Economy, American Culture, Mexico, Latin America, Gender in Cross‑Cult­ural Perspective, Latinas in the Americas

Books: 2007 Globalization in Rural Mexico: Three Decades of Change. Austin: Texas. University of Texas Press.

1991. Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late 20th Century. (Edited with Michael Blim). South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey.

1982   Three Different Worlds: Women, Men, and Children in an Indusalizing Community.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. (Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book.)

1979a    New Directions in Political Economy: An Approach from Anthro

pology. (Edited with M. Barbara Leons,) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Articles: 8 in refereed journals, 6 chapters in edited books, numerous book reviews and articles in other journals and proceedings.

Presentations (since 1990): 24 in English and Spanish in the U.S., Mexico, Cuba, Canada, and Europe.

Service:

Montclair State University, Latin American and Latino Studies Committee, Anthropology Department Seminars and Events Committee .

Towson University, numerous university, college, and department committees.

American Anthropological Association, Commission on World Anthropologies (Co-chair), American Ethnological Society (Secretary, Board member, Anthropology News AES column editor), Society for the Anthropology of Work (President, Board member).