Curriculum vitae NORIKO MATSUMOTO Department of Sociology University of Vermont 31 South Prospect Street, #203 Burlington VT 05405 Phone: 802 656-2993 Noriko.Matsumoto@uvm.edu CURRENT POSITION 2012 Aug.- Lecturer. Department of Sociology/Critical Race & Ethnic Studies program. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. EDUCATION 2012 Feb. Ph.D. (Sociology) Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, N.Y. Thesis: Constructing Multiethnic Space: East Asian Immigration in Fort Lee, New Jersey. (Advisor: Philip Kasinitz). 2006 Feb. M. Phil. (Sociology) Graduate Center, CUNY. (Fields: Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Immigration; Race and Ethnicity). Awarded with distinction. 2002 Jan. M.A. (Sociology) Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J. 1996 May B.A. cum laude (Sociology) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. RESEARCH INTERESTS Sociology of culture, East Asia, immigration, race and ethnicity, research methods, theory, urban sociology AWARDS & HONORS American Sociological Association Travel Award for participation in XVIII International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology (Yokohama, Japan) 2014. Writing Fellow. Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, 2006-2008 Graduate Teaching Fellow. Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. 2004-2005 Tuition Award. Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. 2003-2004
Matsumoto, 2 University Fellowship. Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. 2002-2004 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor, adjunct (Social Problems). Department of Sociology, Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y. January-May 2012. Assistant Professor, adjunct (Social Research Methods). Department of Sociology, City College of New York, CUNY. January-May 2012. Lecturer, adjunct (Introduction to Sociology). Department of Social Sciences, Queensborough Community College, CUNY. September-December 2011. Writing Fellow. Writing Across the Curriculum, Queens College, CUNY. September 2006-May 2008. Teaching Assistant (Graduate Statistics II). Graduate Center, CUNY. January-May 2006. Teaching Assistant (Sociological Analysis). Queens College, CUNY. September 2004-May 2005. Lecturer, adjunct (Introduction to Sociology). Hunter College, CUNY. September-December 2003. Teaching Assistant (Graduate Statistics I). Graduate Center, CUNY. September-December 2002. Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Sociological Research). Rutgers University. January-May 2001. Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Sociology). Rutgers University. January-December 2000. COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Sociology Social Research Methods Social Problems Race Relations in the U.S. Sociology of Culture Introduction to Ethnic Studies Asian American Experiences (Asian American Studies) RESEARCH POSITIONS Research Analyst. Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, CUNY. September 2009-August 2011. Research Assistant. CUNY Remedial Education. Dr. Paul Attewell. Department of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY. January-August 2009.
Matsumoto, 3 Research Assistant (New York/Tokyo, Yokohama). Vocational and General Education in Post- Industrial Economies: A Comparison of Youth Labor Markets in the US and Japan. Dr. Mary C. Brinton, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. June 2007-March 2009. Research Assistant (New York/Tokyo). Delayed Departure from the Natal Home Project. Dr. Katherine S. Newman, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. May 2006- February 2007. Publication: The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition, Beacon Press, 2012. Research Consultant (New York). Living Arrangements in Japan Project. Dr. Katherine S. Newman.Department of Sociology, Princeton University. June-November 2005. Research Consultant (New York). Primary Care Careers Survey Project. Dr. Marthe Gold, Sophie Davis Biomedical Education, City College of New York, CUNY. August 2004-February 2005. Research Assistant (New York). The Second Generation in Metropolitan New York Project. Dr. Philip Kasinitz, Department of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, January-May 2004, September 2005-January 2006. PUBLICATIONS The Past of Others: Korean Memorials in New York s Suburbia. Under review. Signs and the Production of Multiethnic Space: The Case of Fort Lee, New Jersey. Under review. Book review. Jan Lin. The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural Heritage and Community Life, Routledge, 2011. Sociological Forum 29 (2): 507-510, June 2014. Sociology of Migration. Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Edited by Immanuel Ness. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Encyclopedia article. Asian. Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Edited by Kathleen R. Arnold. Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-CLIO, 2011. Encyclopedia article. I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food : The Children of Immigrants in the New York Metropolitan Labor Force. The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. Edited by Richard Alba and Mary C. Waters, New York: New York University Press, 2011. Book chapter co-authored with Philip Kasinitz and Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida. Private Realms of the State: Female Subjectivity and the Japanese Home in the U.S. [Review of Sawa Kurotani, Home Away from Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States, Duke University Press, 2005] Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 8(2010). http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/reviews/2010/matsumoto.html How Japan s Research and Development Went Global [Review of Gregory P. Corning, Japan and the Politics of Techno-Globalism, M.E. Sharpe, 2004] Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 3(2009). http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/reviews/2009/matsumoto.html The Art of Translating Data: Experiences from Interview Research in Sociology in Japan and the U.S. Revisions: A Zine on Writing at Queens College 5 (spring 2008): 18-9.
Matsumoto, 4 The New Collaboration between Writing Across the Curriculum and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Revisions: A Zine on Writing at Queens College 4 (spring 2007): 21-22. PRESENTATIONS Comfort Women Memorials in Suburban New Jersey: Transnational Collective Memory and Diasporic Ethnic Identity. Second Generation Experiences (paper session). Eastern Sociological Society. New York, N.Y. February 27, 2015. The Past of Others: Korean Memorials in New York s Suburbia. Articulations of Ethnicity, Race and Nationhood. Research Committees Session, XVIII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama, Japan. July 15, 2014. Signs and the Politics of Compromise in Multiethnic Space. Multiculturalism and the State, Section on Asia and Asian America Roundtable, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, N.Y. August 11, 2013. Potential Consequences of the Proposed Reform on East Asian Immigration, Community Formation, and Assimilation in New York. Panelist. Panel discussion on Immigration Reform and Its Consequences. Global and Regional Studies Program, University of Vermont. Organized and moderated by Martha Thomas. March 13, 2013. Ethnicity and Immigrant Assimilation: East Asians in a New York Suburb, Making It Home, Fifth International Graduate Conference, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. May 11, 2012. Alienation and Integration: A Relational Perspective on East Asian Immigration in a New York Suburb, Adaptation and Incorporation of Immigrants (panel). Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pa. February 24, 2011. Reconsidering the Ethnic Suburb: The Japanese in Fort Lee, 1970 to the Present, The GC Immigration Working Group Workshop, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York. March 3, 2010. The Making and Unmaking of a Japanese Village : Fort Lee, New Jersey, 1970s-present, Building the New Suburban Gateways (panel). The Diverse Suburb: History, Politics and Prospects conference, National Center for Suburban Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. October 24, 2009. In-Class Workshop Activities. Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines conference. Hunter College of Social Work, New York, N.Y. August 23, 2007. Co-presenter with Jason Tougaw. Predictors of Attitudes Toward Violence in a Sample of Black and Latino Male Adolescents Incarcerated in Rikers Island, National American Psychological Association conference, San Francisco, Cal. August 19, 2007. Co-author with Yasser Arafat Payne and Juan Battle. Remembering Hiroshima in Postwar Japan: War and Peace in Collective Memory, Mass Representation of War in Twentieth-Century Japan (panel). New England Association for Asian Studies 2003 conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. October 24-25, 2003.
Matsumoto, 5 SERVICE Guest speaker. Asian Americans: Trends, Identity, Research. East Coast Asian American Student Union Campus Tour, Asian American Student Association, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. November 3, 2012. Student Representative. International Migration Section, American Sociological Association. September 2008-August 2009 MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Society International Sociological Association. REFERNCES On request.