Evelyn Nakano Glenn

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Evelyn Seiko Nakano Glenn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities, she served as founding director of the university's Center for Race and Gender (CRG), a leading U.S. academic center for the study of intersectionality among gender, race and class social groups and institutions. In June 2008, Glenn was elected president of the 15,000-member American Sociological Association. She served as president-elect during the 2008–2009 academic year, assumed her presidency at the annual ASA national convention in San Francisco in August 2009, served as president of the association during the 2009–2010 year, and continued to serve on the ASA governing council as past-president until August 2011. Her presidential address, given at the 2010 meetings in Atlanta, was entitled "Constructing Citizenship: Exclusion, Subordination, and Resistance", and was printed as the lead article in the American Sociological Review.^[1]

Glenn's scholarly work focuses on the dynamics of race, gender, and class in processes of inequality and exclusion. Her early research documented the work and family lives of heretofore neglected women of color in domestic service and women in clerical occupations. This work drew her into historical research on the race and gender structure of local labor markets and the consequences of labor market position on workers, including the forms of resistance available to them. Most recently she has engaged in comparative analysis of race and gender in the construction of labor and citizenship across different regions of the United States.

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride (Temple University Press), Unequal Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2002), "From Servitude to Service Work" (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society), and Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America (Harvard University Press, 2010). She is also editor of Mothering (Routledge), and Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (Stanford University Press, 2009). Additionally, Glenn is the author of many journal articles, reviews, and commentaries. A review of her most recent book, Forced to Care stated, "Glenn's prose is concise and elegantly crafted, and despite the complexity of the subject matter, the reader is swept along with the force of the narrative structure."^[2]

Glenn was born on August 20, 1940, in Sacramento County, California, to Nisei (second-generation Japanese immigrant) parents Makoto Nakano and Haruye Ito and was thus a Sansei (third-generation Japanese immigrant). From 1942 to 1945, Glenn and her parents, along with more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were interned in concentration camps following the signing of Executive Order 9066.^[3][4] Glenn's family was first assigned to live in the horse stables at a race track in Turlock, California, and thereafter was sent to the Gila River camp in the Arizona desert, and then to the Heart Mountain camp in the high country of Wyoming.^[5] When her family was released in 1945, they moved to Chicago, where Glenn was raised until the age of 16. The family returned to California and Glenn graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1958.^[6]

Glenn received her BA in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962.^[7]

• 2015 Asian American & Asian Disapora Studies Award, UC Berkeley^{[citation needed]}
• 2013 KQED Asian American Local Heroes Award^{[citation needed]}
• 2012 Lee Founders Award for Life Achievement("in recognition of significant achievements over a distinguished career, that have demonstrated a long-time devotion to the ideals ... and especially to the humanistic tradition of sociology ...")^[8] awarded by the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2011 at its national convention, August 2012.^{[citation needed]}
• 2011 C.Wright Mills Award (finalist), for her book Forced to Care, awarded by Society for the Study of Social Problems.
• 2007 Sociologists for Women in Society, Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Feminist Sociology.^{[citation needed]}
• 2005 Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association "in recognition of outstanding scholarship that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society".^[9]
• 2004 Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian Americans, for her book Unequal Freedom.^{[citation needed]}
• 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, for Unequal Freedom.^{[citation needed]}
• 2003 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, for Unequal Freedom.^{[citation needed]}
• 2003 Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class, for Unequal Freedom.^{[citation needed]}
• 2001 Visiting Scholar, The Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.^{[citation needed]}
• 1994 Outstanding Alumna Award, Japanese Women Alumnae of the University of California.^{[citation needed]}
• 1994 Nikei of the Biennium Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education, Japanese American Citizens League (awarded at National Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah).^{[citation needed]}
• 1993 Association of Black Women Historians, Leititia Woods Brown Memorial Article Prize for "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor".^{[citation needed]}

• Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America, Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-674-04879-9
• Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (ed.) Stanford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8047-5999-1
• Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-674-01372-8
• Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, Evelyn N. Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Forcey (eds), New York: Routledge, 1994. ISBN 978-0-415-90776-7
• Issei, Nisei, Warbride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87722-564-5
• Hidden Aspects of Women's Work, Christine Bose, Roslyn Feldberg, and Natalie Sokoloff, with the Women and Work Research Group (eds), New York: Praeger, 1987. ISBN 978-0-275-92415-7

• American Sociological Association
• Center for Race and Gender