Anru Lee, Ph.D.                                                                   Anthropology



Assistant Professor
                                                     
Department of Anthropology                                                  
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
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Anru Lee

A cultural anthropologist, Dr. Lee's research focuses on the Asian Pacific region and issues of capitalism, modernity, gender and sexuality, and urban anthropology. She is the author of In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring (SUNY Press 2004) and is co-editor of Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society (ME Sharpe 2004). Her current project investigates rapid transit systems as related to issues of technology, governance, and citizenship. Her most recent fieldwork looks at the newly built Mass Rapid Transit systems in Taiwan in the context of the country's struggle for cultural and national identity.


Dr. Lee is an active member of the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW), a section under the American Anthropological Association.  She served as the SAW's contributing editor to the Anthropology News  (2002-2005) and is currently the secretary of the organization.

Current Courses

Education

Selected Publications

Recent Invited Talks & Presentations







Harmony and Prosperity

Current Courses

Ant 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Ant 208: Urban Anthropology
 

Education
Ph.D. Anthropology (CUNY Graduate Center)
M.A. Anthropology (CUNY Hunter College)
B.S. Agricultural Chemistry (National Taiwan University)
 

Selected Publications

Books

Lee, Anru. 2004.
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan’s Economic Restructuring. Albany: SUNY Press.

Farris, Catherine, Anru Lee, and Murray A. Rubinstein. Eds. 2004.
Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

Articles

Lee, Anru. 2004. "Between Filial Daughter and Loyal Sister: Global Economy and Family Politics in Taiwan." In Catherine Farris, Anru Lee, and Murray A. Rubinstein (eds.) Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society. Pp. 101-119. Armonk. NY: M.E. Sharpe.
 
Lee, Anru. 2003.
"王美玲的故事: 台灣小型製造業家庭中兩性關係的政治經濟學” (The Story of Wang Mei-ling: The Political Economy of Gender in Taiwan’s Small-scaled Manufacturing Families). 兩性平等教育季刊  (Education for Gender Equality Quarterly) 22: 30-50.  
 
Lee, Anru. 2002. "Guests from the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan.” In Esther Ngan-ling Chow (ed.) Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia. Pp. 183-202. New York: Routledge.
 
Lee, Anru. 1996. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Gender in Taiwan's Small-Scaled Industry." In Anthony Marcus (ed.) Anthropology for A Small Planet: Culture and Community in a Global Environment. St. James, NY: Brandywine Press.

Book Reviews

Lee, Anru. 2005. "Review of Ellen Israel Rosen Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry." Anthropology of Work Review.

 
Recent Invited Talks and Presentations
 
Invited Talks

Lee, Anru. 2005. "The Flagship of Modernity: The Mass Rapid Transit System in Taipei." Invited talk given at the Graduate Institute of Landscape and Recreation, Feng-chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. October 20.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Subways, Modernity, and the Making of a Global City: The Case of Taipei, Taiwan." Invited talk given at the Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University. October 7.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Globalization and Cultural Symbols in Taiwan." Invited talk given at the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. July 19.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Between Filial Daughter and Loyal Sister: Global Economy and Family Politics in Taiwan." Reading and discussion conducted at the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Women's Herstory Month lecture series. March 23.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Portals and Pathways to Postmodern Nationhood: The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Systems in Taiwan." Workshop conducted at the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA) Annual Meeting, Rutgers University. February 26.
 
Lee, Anru. 2004. "The Southern Perspective." Paper presented at the "Is Taiwanese Chinese?" invited panel discussion at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. September 22.
 
Lee, Anru. 2004. "Conflicting Loyalties and Contested Justice: Taiwanese Subway Systems as Regional, National, and Global Icons." Talk given at the Anthropology Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center. May 7.
 
Recent Presentations

Lee, Anru. 2005. "Southern Green Revolution: Urban Development, Environmental Activism, and Citizen Movements in Kaohsiung, Taiwan." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 4.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Subways, Modernity, and the Making of a Global City: The Case of Taipei, Taiwan." Paper presented at the Chinese American Academic & Professional Society (CAAPS) Annual Meeting, Flushing, New York. August 6.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "From Blue-Collar Industrial City to Blue-Color Ocean Capital: Global Aspiration, Local Governance, and Urban Renewal in Kaohsiung, Taiwan." Paper presented at the CASCA/SANA/UADY Meeting, Merida, Mexico. May 5.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Portals and Pathways to Postmodern Nationhood: The Mass Rapid Transit Systems in Taiwan." Poster presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) Annual Meeting, Dartmouth College. April 23.
 
Lee, Anru. 2005. "Heteroglossia and the Subway: Reading Taipei's MRT in the Context of Global Cities." Paper presented at the American Ethnological Society (AES) Annual Meeting, San Diego. April 10.