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_Deborah Freedman Lustig, Ph.D.





Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI)                                                    dlustig AT berkeley DOT edu
2420 Bowditch Street #5670                                                                                (510) 643-7238 (work)           
University of California, Berkeley                                                          
Berkeley, CA 94720-5670

Current Position

Associate Director
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley

Education

Ph.D.                     Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor                            1997

M.A.                       Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor                           1991

B.A.                        Economics, University of California, Berkeley                                1987

                                Departmental and University Honors

Diploma                   Phillips Exeter Academy                                                                 1982


Teaching Experience

Instructor, Anthropology, Chabot College, CA. Summer 2011

Lecturer, Anthropology, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA. 1997-1999 and 2007-2008

Lecturer, Anthropology, San Jose State University, CA. 2007.

Visiting Lecturer/Fulbright Senior Scholar, Educational Foundations and Institute for Women, Gender and Development Studies, Egerton University, Kenya. 2004-2005

Lecturer (full-time), Liberal Studies, Santa Clara University, CA. 1999-2004

Lecturer, Anthropology, San Francisco State University, CA. 1998-1999

Adjunct Instructor, Anthropology, Chabot-Las Positas Community College District, CA. 1996-1998

Instructor (Sabbatical Leave Replacement), Anthropology, Chabot College, CA. Spring 1996

High School Teacher, Netima Secondary School, Kenya. 1988-1989


Other Professional Experience

Director, Eastside Future Teachers Project www.scu.edu/EFTP and Office of College Special Programs www.scu.edu/ocsp , Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. 2002-2004

Census Enumerator, US Census Bureau, Livingston County, MI. 1990

Librarian, Mischa Titiev Library of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI. 1989-1991

Intern, Institute for Food and Development Policy, San Francisco, CA. 1988

Special Events Coordinator, Unitas Hunger Action Center, Berkeley, CA. 1987-1988


Research Experience

Youth violence and neighborhood change: New immigrants in Oakland, California, 2008-2010

Gender, development and education, Kenya, 2004-5.

Community-based learning and student awareness of social location, California, 2002.

Teenage mothers and their school experiences (dissertation fieldwork), California, 1993-1995

Spoken and written language among elementary school children (under the supervision of Prof. Robbins Burling), Lansing, MI, 1989

Women, handicraft production, and the household economy (under the supervision of Prof. Kalpana Bardhan), Chiapas, Mexico, 1986

Courses Taught

Introductory Cultural Anthropology

Introductory Physical Anthropology

Applied Anthropology

Human Lifecourse in Context

Family, Marriage, and Kinship

Education, Culture, and Society

Ethnography of the Inner-City 

Racism in Cross-cultural Perspective

Cultural Pluralism in the United States

Research Methods

Shop till You Drop: Consumerism, Culture, and the Mall

Eating Green: Organic Farming, Agribusiness, and the Culture of Agriculture 

Teaching Practicum and Social Foundations of Education

Urban Education

Teaching in a Multicultural Society

Technology and Learning

Comparative Education

Gender and Education

Gender and Development

Introduction to Community Studies

Honors and Grants

Research Grant, Berkeley Population Center (with Jonathan Simon), 2008

Fulbright Grant, 2004

Bannan Institute Grant, Santa Clara University (with Carol Giancarlo), 2002

University Grant for Research, Santa Clara University (with Carol Giancarlo), 2002

Walnut Creek Fountain for Youth Foundation Grant, for Leemos Juntos program, 2002

San Francisco Foundation Grant, for Leemos Juntos program, 2002

Margoes Foundation Grant, for Calculus 100 program at Santa Clara University, 2002

Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996

Landes Field Grant, Research Institute for the Study of Man, 1994-1995

Research Grant, Sigma Xi, 1994

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 1994

Abigail Associates Grant, Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women, 1993

Rackham Dissertation/Thesis Grant, University of Michigan, 1993

Andrew W. Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, 1992

NSF Ethnology Training Grant, 1992

Mischa Titiev Library of Anthropology Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1989-1991

Phi Beta Kappa, 1987

President's Undergraduate Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1986

Publications

Lustig, Deborah Freedman and Rose Ogwang Odhiambo, 2019. “Men Becoming Gender Activists: Kenyan University Students Working for Justice and Rewards.” In Education in Contemporary Africa, edited by Maurice N. Amutabi. Nairobi, Kenya: Center for Democracy, Research and Development, pp 7-20.
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Lustig, Deborah, Rose Odhiambo, and Sam Odhiambo. "Narratives of Morality: Shame, Righteousness, and Gender Equity among Kenyan University Students who are Mothers." Gendered Perspectives in International Development Working Paper 312. 23pp. 2018

Lustig, Deborah Freedman and Kenzo Sung, 2013. “Dissolving Borders: Reframing Risk, Delinquent Peers, and Youth Violence.” Children and Youth Services Review 35: 1197-1205.

Lustig, Deborah Freedman and Kenzo Sung, 2012. “Birds of a Feather? Peers, Delinquency and Risk.” In Education and the Risk Society: Theories, Discourse, and Risk Identities in Education Contexts, edited by Steven Bialostok, Robert Whitman, and William Bradley.  Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Lustig, Deborah F; & Sung, Kenzo. (2011). Birds of a Feather? Peers, Delinquency and Risk. UC Berkeley: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3n87898t


Le, Thao, Isami Arifuku, Linh Vuong, Gianna Tran, Deborah F. Lustig, Frank Zimring. 2011. “Community Mobilization & Community-Based Participatory Research to Prevent Youth Violence among Asian and Immigrant Populations.” American Journal of Community Psychology. 48 (1-2): 77-88.

Lustig, Deborah Freedman. 2010. Review of Viteritti, Joseph P., ed., When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City. H-Urban, H-Net Reviews. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31334

Lustig, Deborah Freedman. 2009. “Good Mothers/Teen Mothers: Claiming Rights and Responsibilities.” In Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation:  Implications for Policy and Practice, eds. L. Nybell, J. Shook, J. Finn. New York: Columbia University Press, pp 125-144.  

Lustig, Deborah Freedman. 2008.  Review of “This isn’t the America I Thought I’d Find”: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School by Rosemary Traoré and Robert J. Lukens. Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Lustig, Deborah Freedman. 2004.  “Baby Pictures: Family, Consumerism and Exchange among Teen Mothers in the USA.”Childhood 11(2):175-193

Lustig, Deborah Freedman. 1997. "Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education" Anthropology and Education Quarterly 28 (4): 574-592
    Reprinted in: Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, Fifth and Sixth Editions, eds. Podolefsky and                 Brown. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2002, 2003
    Reprinted in: Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, Sixth and Seventh Editions, eds. Podolefsky and Brown.             Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2002, 2003

Lustig, Deborah Freedman. 1997. In and Out of School: School-Age Mothers in Urban California Negotiate Parenthood, Gender, Class, and Race/Ethnicity. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan. 1997 (Committee: Sandra Danziger, Lawrence Hirschfeld, Holly Peters-Golden, Roger Rouse)



Papers Presented

"Breaking Barriers, Building Family: Nurturing Social Change Scholars." American Anthropological Association, 2017

“Peer Relationships and Youth Violence: Reframing Risk.” American Anthropological Association, 2011

"Men Becoming Gender Activists: Kenyan University Students Working for Justice and Rewards.” Session Organizer: “Transforming and Transgressing Gender: Activism and Social Change in East Africa from the 1950s to the Present.” African Studies Association, 2010

“Marginal or Mainstream? The beginnings and the end(s) of feminist anthropology.” (Organizer, Invited Roundtable) American Anthropological Association, 2009

 “Changing Neighborhoods, Peer Relationships, and Youth Violence.” Society for Prevention Research, 2009

 “Competing Narratives of Moral Value among Kenyan University Students who are Mothers.” American Anthropological Association, 2007

 “Air Hostess or Engineer: Gender, Academic Achievement, and Career Goals among Secondary School Students in Kenya.” African Studies Association, 2006

“’Student Mothers’: Shame and Sacrifice among Kenyan University Students who are Mothers.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, 2006. 

 “Male Gender Activists at a Kenyan University:  Renouncing or Reinforcing Privilege?” Africa/Diaspora Conference, CSU Sacramento, 2006

 “Experiencing Social Location through Community-based Learning.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, 2002

“Baby Pictures: Teen Mothers Represent and Construct Family.” Designing Modern Childhoods Conference, Center for Working Families, UC Berkeley, 2002

“Having Babies at the ‘Wrong Time’: Teenage Mothers Deconstruct a Social Problem.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1999

“Escaping the ‘Inner-City’: Teen Mothers, Education, and Welfare,” Session Organizer: “In and Of the City: Urban Anthropology and US Policies.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, 1998

"Dialogic Research in Theory and Practice: Lessons from the Field," Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 1997

"On Being Good: Teen Mothers at School," Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, 1996

"Teen Mothers Becoming Students; Students Becoming Teen Mothers," (poster), Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New York, 1996

"'Sometimes You Have to Fight': Honor, Status, and Violence among Teen Mothers," Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA, 1994

"Of Babies, Bodies, and Bathrooms: Teen Mothers at School," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Ames, IA, 1994

"Slave-names, Junior and Gender: Child-Naming Practices among Young African American Mothers," Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, Santa Monica, CA, 1994

"'It's Just Like They're Whispering': The Politics of Exclusion Among Latina and African American Teen Mothers in School," Sacramento Anthropological Society Annual Symposium, 1994           

Languages

Spanish and French, Basic Kiswahili

Professional Affiliations

African Studies Association

American Anthropological Association; Council on Anthropology and Education

American Educational Research Association

National Women’s Studies Association

University/Academic Service

Reviewer, Journal of Gender Studies, 2013

Reviewer, Routledge, 2012

Reviewer, 2nd International Gender Symposium, Moi University, Kenya, 2012


Reviewer, Corwin Press, 2007

Member, Mini-Grant Selection Committee, Center for Latino Policy Research, UCB, 2007

Adviser, Female Students League and Student Mothers Union, Egerton University, 2004-5

Adviser, Gender Connection (student magazine), Egerton University, 2004-5

Member, Liberal Studies Program Standards Committee, Santa Clara University, 2002-4

Member, Bridge Program Committee, Santa Clara University, 2002

Judicial Officer, University Discipline Council, Santa Clara University, 2001-2004

Associate, Center for Multicultural Learning, Santa Clara University, 1999-2004

Member, Community Studies Program Council, Santa Clara University, 1999-2003

Community Service

Volunteer, African Library Project, 2017-present

Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), Contra Costa County, 2008-present

Board Member, African Library Project, 2010-2017

Member, Walnut Creek School District Wellness Policy Committee, 2005-2006

Program Director, Leemos Juntos, Buena Vista Elementary School, Walnut Creek, 2002-2004

PTA President, Buena Vista PTA, Walnut Creek, 2002-2004

Board Member, 6 Seconds: Training and Materials for Emotional Intelligence, 1998-present

Crisis Counselor, A Safe Place, Oakland's shelter for battered women, 1993-1995

References available upon request

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