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Education and Career
2003 Ph.D. Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany.
Dissertation: The Structure of Constraints: Social Networks of Immigrants from Taiwan (in English).
1995 M.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany. Minors: Sinology and Political Economy.
M.A. thesis: Vegetable Farmers in Beijing - a field study of recent changes in suburban vegetable production (in German).
2/90 - 7/91 Student in the Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China
9/89 - 1/90 Chinese language study at Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
since 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University.
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Honors
East Carolina Thomas Harriot East Carolina University Thomas Harriot College of Arts
and Sciences College Research Award. Project title: The Impact of China’s New Legal
System on Social Structure, Social Relations, and Notions of Reciprocity.
National Science Foundation Research Award. PI, “China and the Rule of Law: \
Conceptions of Fairness and Justice in Times of Change”, National Science Foundation,
Anthropology Program (with Jeffrey Johnson, ECU) ($ 100,003).
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Publications
Avenarius, Christine B. 2003
Work and Social Network Composition among Immigrants from Taiwan to Southern
California, Anthropology of Work Review, Vol. 23, No. 3-4: 3-15.
Avenarius, Christine B. 2004
Taiwanese Americans, in: Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember (eds.)
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures, pp. 858-867. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Avenarius, Christine B. 2004
The Structure of Constraints: Social Networks of Immigrants from Taiwan. Köln: Kölner
Universitäts-Publikationsserver.
Johnson, Jeffrey C., Christine B. Avenarius and J. McIver Weatherford (in press)
The Active Participant Observer: Applying Social Role Analysis to Participant
Observation. Field Methods (Sage Publications), Bernard, Russell H. (ed.).
Avenarius, Christine B., (forthcoming)
Conflict, Cooperation, and Integration among Subethnic Immigrant Groups from Taiwan.
Population, Space and Place (Wiley).
Avenarius, Christine B. (forthcoming)
Gender and Differential Response to Urban Sprawl Among Immigrants from Taiwan. For
submission to: Gender in an Urban World (Research in Urban Sociology), Volume 9,
2006 (Elsevier), Hutchinson, Ray and Judith DeSena (eds.).
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