Eileen Otis
Assistant Professor
Phone: (541) 346-7102
Email: otis@uoregon.edu
Professor Otis received her B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in East Asian Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara, and an M.A,. as well as Ph.D., in Sociology from U.C. Davis. She served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Fairbank Center. Before coming to the University of Oregon, she was Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook. Her scholarship examines the gender, class and ethnic politics of new labor practices within China's emergent urban service sector. She recently published "Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Market-Embedded Labor and the Gender Organization of Global Service Work in China" in the American Sociological Review. Based on an ethnographic analysis of labor practices at two international hotels in two Chinese urban centers, the article puts forth a new framework for cross-regional comparison of service labor practices based on spatial, market and cultural dynamics that fundamentally diverge from those of industrial labor. She has also published in the American Behavioral Scientist, Qualitative Sociology, Politics and Society, and Contemporary Sociology. Her research has won awards from the Asia/Asian-American and the Sex and Gender sections of the American Sociological Association and from Sociologists for Women in Society.
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