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David W. Haines

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Department of Sociology and Anthroplogy Robinson B 322
George Mason University -- SOAN 3G5 Phone: (703) 993-3600
4400 University Drive E-mail: dhaines1@gmu.edu
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Publications . . . Professional Service . . . Courses

Publications:

Books

The Limits of Kinship: South Vietnamese Households, 1954-1975. Northern Illinois University: Southeast Asia Publications. 2006.

Cultural Anthropology: Adaptations, Structure, Meanings. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall. 2005.

Manifest Destinies: Americanizing Immigrants and Internationalizing Americans. Co-editor: Carol Mortland. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. 2001.

Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook. Co-editor: Karen Rosenblum. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1999.

Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook. Editor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1996.

Case Studies in Diversity: Refugees in America. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. 1997. (Abridged paperback edition of Refugees in America in the 1990s with a new introduction.)

Refugees as Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese in America. Editor. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield. 1989.

Refugees in the United States: A Reference Handbook. Editor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1985.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

"Refugees" in The New Americans. Edited by Mary Waters and Reed Ueda. Harvard University Press. In press.

"Illegal Immigration" in Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia. James Ciment, Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe. Volume 4, pages 929-940. 2006.

"Refugees in America: Moral Impulses and Public Policy." Global Studies Review 1(2):10-11 Spring 2006

"Southeast Asia from an East Asian Perspective." Korea Fulbright Review. Pages 71-77. Summer, 2005.

"Fatal Choices: The Routinization of Deceit, Incompetence, and Corruption." Public Integrity 6(1): 5-23. 2004.

"Better Tools, Better Workers: Toward a Lateral Alignment of Technology, Policy, Labor, and Management." American Review of Public Administration 33(4): 449-478. 2003.

"Binding the Generations: Household Formation Patterns among Vietnamese Refugees." International Migration Review 36(4): 1194-1217. 2002.

"East Asia for Undergraduates: Balancing Regional Themes and Distinctive Cultures." Education about Asia. 7(2): 22-27. 2002.

"Southeast Asian Refugee Crisis." Encyclopedia of American Immigration. New York: M.E. Sharpe. Volume I. Pp. 186-194. 2001.

"The Fatal Choice: Machine Competence or Human Control?" Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 14-18. 2001.

"Minimalism in Governance: Workers' Compensation in a Southern State." Administration and Society 31(5): 616-638. 1999.

"Vision and Heart: The Anthropological Research on Refugees, Immigrants, and Displacees." Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants VII. Pp. 33-52. 1999.

"Letting 'The System' Do the Work: The Promise and Perils of Computerization." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 35(3): 306-324. 1999.

"Anthropology and Contemporary Migration." Co-author: Diane Baxter. General Anthropology 5(2). 1998.

"Richmond's Refugees: Understanding the Interaction between Refugees and Their New Communities." Co-authors: Marilyn Breslow, Dirk Philipsen, and Jan Williamson. Migration World 25(1/2): 30-34. 1997.

"Sentiment in Public Policy." In Selected Papers on Refugee Issues. Edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Donnelly. Arlington, Virginia: American Anthropological Association. 1993.

"Southeast Asian Refugees in Western Europe: American Reflections on French, British, and Dutch Experiences." Migration World 19(4): 15-18. 1991.

"Conformity in the Face of Ambiguity: A Bureaucratic Dilemma." Semiotica 78(3/4): 249-269. 1990.

"South Vietnamese Households, Some Reconstructions of the 1954-1975 Period." Vietnam Forum 13: 192-217. 1990.

"Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in the United States and Canada." Amerasia Journal 15(2): 141-156. 1989.

"Ritual and Cohesion: An Exploration among Ordinary American Families." American University Occasional Papers in Anthropology No. 2: 126-137. 1988.

"The Pursuit of English and Self-Sufficiency: Dilemmas in Assessing Refugee Program Effects." Journal of Refugee Studies 1(3/4): 195-213. 1988.

"Kinship in Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement: A Review of the U.S. Experience." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 19(1): 1-16. 1988.

"Ritual or Ritual? Dinnertime and Christmas among Some Ordinary American Families." Semiotica 68(1/2): 75-88. 1988.

"Patterns in Southeast Asian Refugee Employment: A Reappraisal of the Existing Research." Ethnic Groups 7: 39-63. 1987.

"Vietnamese Kinship, Gender Roles, and Societal Diversity: Some Lessons from Survey Research on Refugees." Vietnam Forum 8: 204-217. 1986.

"Vietnamese Refugee Women in the U.S. Labor Force: Continuity or Change?" In International Migration: The Female Experience. Edited by Rita Simon and Caroline Brettell. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Allenheld. Pp. 62-75. 1986.

"Reflections of Kinship and Society under Vietnam's Le Dynasty." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15(2): 307-314. 1984.

Publications . . . Professional Service . . . Courses

Recent Professional Service:

  • President-elect and program chair, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. 2004-
  • Organizer and chair, Marriage Out of Place: Continuity and Innovation in Marital Choices among Asian Migrants. Panel for the joint meeting of the Society for East Asian Anthropology and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society. Hong Kong, July 2006.
  • Co-organizer (with Jeong Jong-Ho) and chair, Wind over Water: Understanding East Asian Migration. Panel for the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, March 2006.
  • Organizer and chair, Reconfiguring Identity in the American University: The Experience of Immigrants, Children of Immigrants, and Foreign Students. Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2005.
  • Discussant at annual Sorbonne/Seoul National University Conference on The Economy of Culture. Seoul, Korea. November 2004.
  • Panelist on Arirang TV's In Focus program. Panel topic: Generational Change in Korea. Seoul, Korea. October 2004.
  • Keynote speech ("Refugees and America"), annual conference of the American Studies Association of Korea. Seoul, Korea. October 2004.
  • Organizer and chair, Forced Migration in an Age of Restriction. Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Dallas, Texas. March 2004.
  • Chair, Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences. George Mason University. 2001-2004 (3 terms).
  • Council, College of Arts and Sciences. George Mason University. 2000-2004.
  • Organizer (with Carol Mortland) and chair, Manifest Destinies: America, Immigration, and the Collision of Local and Global Histories. Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco. March 2000.
  • Organizer and co-chair, Illegal Immigration: Problematic Labels and Volatile Issues. Roundtable session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago. November 1999.
  • Organizer and chair, Contemporary Migration and Public Policy: A Review and Prospectus. CORI plenary session at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tucson, Arizona. April 1999.
  • Organizer and chair, Refugees, Immigrants, and Anthropologists: A Review and Prospectus. CORI plenary session at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Juan. April 1998.
  • Organizer (with Carol Mortland), Internationalizing America: Refugees, Immigrants, and Their Localities. Invited session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. November 1997.
  • Chair, American Anthropological Association's Committee on Refugees and Immigrants. 1996-1998. Web manager for same: 1998-2003.
  • Program Committee, Society for Applied Anthropology. 1997-1999.
  • Board, General Anthropology Division. 1996-1998.
  • Advisory Board, Refugee and Immigration Services, Richmond, Virginia. 1994-1997.
  • Advisory Board, Richmond's Refugees (Interorganizational research project funded by the Virginia Endowment for the Humanities and Public Policy). 1997-1999.

Publications . . . Professional Service . . . Courses

Courses:

Spring 2006:

Fall 2005:

Fall 2004 (Seoul National University):

  • SNU GSIS 8753.662 Society and Culture of Southeast Asia >>> syllabus and text (Intro, Part I, Part II, Part III). Note that access to the text requires a password that will be given in class.

Spring 2004:

  • HNRS 230 Cross-Cultural Perspectives: The East Asian Experiment >>> syllabus
  • ANTH 303 Peoples and Cultures of East Asia >>> syllabus
  • ANTH 395 Work, Technology, and Society: An IT Perspective >>> syllabus

Fall 2003:

Other courses:

Publications . . . Professional Service . . . Courses