Dr. Jane M. Henrici Assistant Professor E-mail: jhenrici@memphis.edu Phone: (901) 678-5472 Office: Manning Hall 319

Research Focus

Urban poverty and development; gender and ethnicity; welfare and urban anthropology; globalization and privatization; tourism development; the effects of the proposed Mid-South NAFTA corridor; development among ethnic groups and social organizations in Peru, along the Texas/Mexico border, and in San Antonio; non-profits/NGOs

Academic Summary

Dr. Henrici conducts applied research on gender and ethnicity in relation to urban poverty and development in the United States and Peru. She earned her doctorate in 1996 at the University of Texas at Austin with an investigation on ethnic tourism development in Peru, and conducted postdoctoral research on nonprofit organizations assisting low-income communities in Peru later that year. Between 1998-2001, Dr. Henrici completed a U.S.-based Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with “Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study” at the Center for Social Work Research at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2001, she joined the Department of Anthropology at The University of Memphis as an assistant professor and during 2001-2003 as contracted with Pennsylvania State University and UT-Austin as a research scientist , continuing with the Three-City Study.

In addition to her other projects, Dr. Henrici has begun research and outreach in Memphis, Tennessee, on job training for low-income women, the effects of the proposed regional NAFTA corridor, and issues affecting recent Spanish-speaking immigrants to the area. While earlier publications deal with issues of development among ethnic groups and social organizations in Peru, current work by Dr. Henrici explores globalization and privatization with a focus on policy change and women in poorer communities in the United States as well as in Peru. Dr. Henrici is a research affiliate with the Center for Research on Women and the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at The University of Memphis; she also is the Honors Anthropology Instructor and an instructor with the Women’s Studies Program. As a Fulbright Scholar to Peru in 2006, Dr. Henrici will conduct fieldwork on the effects of free trade agreements on Peruvian women’s alternative trading organizations.

Recent Publications

Henrici, Jane, Laura Lein, and Ronald Angel. "Women and Children and the Health Care Gap." In Child Poverty in America Today, Vol. 2: Heath and Medical Care, edited by Barbara A. Arrighi and David J. Maume. Westport, CT: Praeger, forthcoming May 2007.

Henrici, Jane, ed. Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, September 2006.

Henrici, Jane. “Agents of Change: Non-profit Organization Workers following Welfare Reform.” In Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, September 2006.

Henrici, Jane, Laura Lein, and Ronald Angel. "Women, Working and Welfare: Introduction." In Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, September 2006.

Henrici, Jane, and E. Carol Miller. "Work First, Then What?  Families and Job Training after Welfare Reform."  In Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, September 2006.

Angel, Ronald J., Laura Lein, and Jane M. Henrici. Poor Families in America’s Health Care Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Henrici, Jane. “Non-Governmental Organizations, ‘Fair Trade,’ and Craft Producers: Exchanges South and North.” Visual Anthropology 16, no. 2/3 (Apr-Sep 2003): 289-313.

Henrici, Jane. “U.S. Women and Poverty.” In Voices: Association for Feminist Anthropology Special Issue, edited by Sandra Morgan, 2002.

Henrici, Jane. “Speed and Space within a NAFTA Corridor.” Space & Culture 5, no. 2 (2002): 49-52.

Henrici, Jane “Calling to the Money: Gender and Tourism in Peru.” In Gender/Tourism/Fun?, edited by Margaret Swain and Janet Momsen. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2002.

Henrici, Jane. “Trading Culture: Tourism and Tourist Art in Pisac, Peru.” In Tourism and Cultural Conflicts, edited by Mike Robinson and Priscilla Boniface. London: CABI Publishing, 1999.

Henrici, Jane. “Alma Gunter.” In Spirited Journeys: Self-Taught Texas Artists of the Twentieth Century, edited by Lynne Adele, 80-83. Austin, TX: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

Policy Briefs and Reports

Spiegel, Polly, and Jane Henrici. "The Non-Public Process of a U.S. Interstate Highway Corridor." Society for North American Anthropology column, Anthropology News, March 2006.

Cherlin, Andrew, Paula Fomby, Ronald Angel, and Jane Henrici. "Public Assistance Receipt among Native-Born Children of Immigrants." In Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study (Policy Brief 01-3). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 2001.

Angel, Ronald, Laura Lein, Jane Henrici, and Emily Leventhal. "Health Insurance: Coverage for Children and Their Caregivers in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods." In Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study (Policy Brief 01-2). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 2001.

Cherlin, Andrew, Linda Burton, Judith Francis, Laura Lein, James Quane, Karen Bogen, and Jane Henrici. "Sanctions and Case Closings for Noncompliance: Who Is Affected and Why." In Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study (Policy Brief 01-1). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 2001.

Henrici, Jane. "Promoting Peruvian Crafts and Selling Culture." In Peru: Beyond the Reforms, PromPerú, Lima, 1997.

Honors and Awards

Faculty Research Grant, The Office of Vice-Provost for Extended Programs, University of Memphis, for “Women and Memphis Workforce Development” project, 2006

Written into Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Community Grant to Memphis Area Women’s Council Workforce Action Collaborative, 2006

Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Working Group Grant, with Steve Scanlan, for “North American Research and Action Network: 2005 Web Focus,” public access and education project, 2005-2006

Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, finalist, 2005-2006

Visiting Scholar Grant, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, for project “Gender and Free Trade: Peruvian Alternative Trading Projects and Free Trade Agreements,” Lima, Peru, March-July 2006

Faculty Exchange Award, Center for Research on Women, The University of Memphis, “Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs” Conference, CCPA/Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2005

Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Working Group Grant, with Steve Scanlan, "North American Research and Action Network: 2005 Web Focus," public access and education project, 2005

Faculty Exchange Award, Center for Research on Women, The University of Memphis, "Women and Globalization” Conference, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, July 2005

Center for Research on Women, The University of Memphis, and University Center for International Studies and Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, The Rockefeller Foundation, for conference “Navigating the Globalization of the American South,” March 2005

Faculty Exchange Award, Regional Educational Network Between the European Union and the United States (RENEUUS), for project “Gender, Tourism and Free Trade,” 2005

Research Affiliate, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, 2004-Present

Multiple listings, successive, in Who’s Who of American Teachers, nominated by eligible University of Memphis students, 2004-Present

Academic Enrichment Award, Academic Enrichment Fund, University of Memphis, with Barbara Ellen Smith, Steven Scanlan, Cynthia Pelak, and Melissa Checker, for symposium “Trading Justice: NAFTA’s New Links and Conflicts,” 2004

Public Service Award, The Office of the Vice Provost for Extended Programs, The University of Memphis, with Barbara Ellen Smith, Steven Scanlan, Cynthia Pelak, and Melissa Checker, for symposium “Trading Justice: NAFTA’s New Links and Conflicts,” 2004

Public Service Award, The Office of the Vice Provost for Extended Programs, The University of Memphis, for “Work, Women, and Danger: A U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis” presentation by Mexico Solidarity Network representatives from Mexico and the U.S., 2004

Listed in Who’s Who in Social Sciences Education, 2004

Research Affiliate Status, Center for Research on Women, The University of Memphis, 2003-Present

Public Service Award, The Office of the Vice Provost for Extended Programs, The University of Memphis, with Melissa Checker, for public lecture on “NAFTA, Labor, and Environmental Standards” by Dr. Huberto Juárez Nuñez and Josefina Hernandez Ponce, 2003

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2003-Present

Public Service Award, The Office of the Vice Provost for Extended Programs, The University of Memphis, for public lecture by Dr. Carol Stack, “Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South,” 2002

Principal Investigator/Research Scientist, “Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study”, sub-contracted with Pennsylvania State University under grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2002-2003

Research Scientist, “Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study”, sub-contracted with the Universitiy of Texas Center for Social Work Research under grant from The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, 2001-2002

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, “Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study,” 1998-2001

HEA Travel Grant Award for Latin Americanist Faculty, 1997

Horace C. Beck, Travel Grant, 1996

American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1996

PromPerú Summer Internship, 1996

Courses Taught at The University of Memphis