UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT

    Elected Social Sciences Department Chair,  June 18, 2006-7.

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.  Fall, 1986 to present.  Promotion to Associate Professor and tenure granted September 12, 1992. Promoted to full professor September 14, 1998.

    Lecturer Sociology, Waseda Center for International Education, Tokyo, Japan, September to June, 2001-2002.

    Lecturer English, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Hanzhong, China, Sabbatical leave, September, 2002-July, 2003.

    Lecturer English, Hanzhong Teacher's College, Hanzhong China, sabbatical leave, September 1994 to January 1996.

    Lecturer Sociology, University of Hawaii, Summers, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009.

    Lecturer, Sociology, University of Hawaii, College of Continuing Education and Community Services, for night school classes, Spring and Summer, 1986.

    University of Hawaii, Sociology Department, Graduate Assistant, teaching undergraduate courses in sociology, 1979 to 1983.  Courses assisted: People and Institutions in Japan, Contemporary Social Thought, Classical Social Theory, Introduction to Sociology, Juvenile Delinquency, Drugs and Society, Medical Sociology.

    University of Hawaii, Asian Studies, Teaching Assistant, Asian Civilization and Way of Tea courses, 1978-1979.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

     Books:
“Barbara Mori Celebrates the Seasons in Ohara,” Celeste Heiter ed. 2009. To Japan with Love, San Francisco, California: Things Asian Press.

   Stand! Race and Ethnic Relations, Coursewise Publishers, December 1999.

    Chapter: “Traditional Arts as Leisure Activities for Contemporary Japanese Women” in Re-Imaging Japanese Women, Anne Imamura, ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

    Americans Studying the Traditional Japanese Art of the Tea Ceremony: The Internationalizing of a Traditional Art, Mellen Research University Press. San Francisco, 1992.

     Journals
“A Dawn Tea Ceremony for the First Blooming of the Morning Glory”, Moebius, Food For Thought, Cal Poly, volume V11 2009.

    “Onna Daigaku and the Education of Modern Japanese Women,” the Journal of Shaanxi University of Technology, in Chinese accepted for publication June, 2003.

    “Cosmic Tea Bowl: The Ritual Serving of Food and Drink in Japan,” in the proceedings of the "East Asia-Saint Petersburg-Europe: Intercivilization Contacts and Perspectives on Economic Cooperation Conference", Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 9, 2000.

    “On the Japanese Tea Culture,” The Journal of Hanzhong Teacher’s College, No. 1998. p. 62 - 66 (in Chinese.)

    “The Tea Ceremony: A Ritual in Transition," Gender & Society. Vol. 5 No. 1 March 1991 Sage Publications, p. 86-97.

    "Japanese Women in Chado: Accommodations in a Male Dominated Profession," Midwest Feminist Papers, Vol. 6 (April 1986): 20-35.

    "Women in Traditional Arts: Tea Teachers in Hawaii," Midwest Feminist Papers, Vol. 5 (April 1985): 68-76.

    "Inheritance Laws in Japan," Four Seasons, Vol. 1 (spring 1976): 16-20.

    “Marriage to a Japanese Man” Encounter with Japan, vol. V No. 1 (March 1977) 4-5.

    "Japanese Family Life, Today" Encounter with Japan, vol. II No. 1 (February 1974): 2-3.

    
  Teaching Resources

    "Gender and Sex Roles, course syllabus," in The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching Materials, Virginia Powell ed., American Sociological Association. Teaching Resources Center, Washington DC, 1990.

    Magazines

    With Christopher Mori, "Japanese School Days," Faces, Volume 6, number 7 (April 1990) a publication for youth of the American Museum of Natural History, Peter Borough, NH: Cobblestone Press; 31-35.

     Newspapers

    “Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Rights in Japan,” Women’s Press, (October 1997) p. 5.

    "Women's Rights in Japan," Broadside, Vol. 2, Number 4 (Fall 1988) p. 6-7.

    With Wayne Muromoto, "Issei: Sae Tachikawa, Bringing Centuries-Old Traditions from Across the Sea," The Hawaii Herald, (March 7, 1986): 12-13.

    "Women in Traditional Arts in Hawaii: Teachers of Tea Ceremony," All She Wrote, newspaper of the University YWCA (1983): 2.

    “Some Meditations on Buddhism in China,” White Heron Sangha Newsletter, August 1997, p. 1-3.
   
 Book Reviews

“Japan Korea and the 2002 World Cup,”for Korean Studies, vol 31 2007, p.116-118 .  

“Hidden Treasures: Lives of First-Generation Korean Women in Japan,” in Korean Studies, vol. 30 2006 p. 114-118.

    The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender, edited by Chenyang Li, 2000 Open court for the Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 3 no. 2 May-August 2003, Korea University, Seoul, p. 338-340,

    Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan, by Tom Gill.  Albany: State of New York Press, 2001 263 pp. for Journal of Contemporary Sociology, vol. 31 no. 4, 2002.

    Gambling with Virtue. Nancy Rosenberger, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Vx, 277 pp. for Journal of Asian Studies submitted 2002.

    Education in Traditional China: a History. Thomas H. C. Lee Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. 13. Leiden, New York and Koln: E.J.Brill 2000. vii, 762 pp. For China Review International, vol. 9 no. 1 Fall 2003 p. 478-481.

    Kim Il-song’s North Korea, Helen-Louise Hunter, forward by Stephen J. Solarz, Praeger 1999 for Korean Studies Journal, vol. 24, 2000, p. 183-187.

    Season of High Adventure, by S. Bernard Thomas for Education in Asia, Asian Studies Association Journal, Vol.5 Number 1Spring 2000, p. 65-66.

    Sweet and Sour : One Woman’s Chinese Adventure, One Man’s Chinese Torture, by Brooks Robards and Jim Kaplan, 1995 for Education in Asia, Asian Studies Association Journal, Vol.4 Number 2 Fall 1998, p. 50-52.

    Empire of Schools: Japan’s Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite, by Robert Cutts, 1997, in Education about Asia, Asian Studies Association Journal, Vol. 3, Number 2, Fall 1998, p. 67-68 and 70.

    May Fourth Women Writers: Memoirs, by Janet Ng and Janice Wickeri, 1997, Education about Asia, Asian Studies Association Journal, Vol. 3, No.1, spring 1998, p. 66.

    The Japanese Woman by Sumiko Iwao, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53 no. 1 February 1994 p. 206-208.

    Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home, by Michael Jeremy and M. E. Robinson, Contemporary Sociology; An International Journal of Review, vol. 19 no. 5 (1991) p. 747.

Web

    “Race and Ethnic Relations” UMI, Bell and Howell publishers (www.xanedu.com) course pack, spring 2001

    “Society and Gender” UMI, Bell and Howell publishers (www.xanedu.com) course pack. fall 2001.

Publications in Books

    Cal Poly Employees Favorite Recipes, vol. II, 1998, Lenexa, KS: Cookbook Publishers, inc. p. 1 and page 37.

    "The Golden Pavilion" 64-68, "The Tea Ceremony" 63-64, in Nissan Guide to Kyoto, Tokyo, Japan: Nissan Publications, 1985.

    "International Marriages," in Japanese Encounters, edited by Hiroshi Kajikawa, 62-64, Tokyo, Japan: Japan Catholic Migration Commission, 1984.

    "Wills and Inheritance," in Now You Live in Japan, Research Committee on Bi-Cultural Life in Japan, 40-49, Tokyo, Japan: The Japan Times, 1976.

PAPERS PRESENTED

Article: “Japanese tea ceremony,” item selected for publication in the Encyclopedia of Asian Pacific American Folklore to be published by Greenwood Press in 2010.

“Women’s Views of Calligraphy,” presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Calligraphy Education, at Tai Chung University, Tai Chung, Taiwan, June, 27, 2008

“Chinese and Japanese Women Look to the Future: Obligations to Parents –up-date,”ASPAC 42nd Annual Conference, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,Saturday June 14, 2008.

"Chinese and Japanese Women Look to the Future: Obligations to Parents” presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meeting in Oakland, CA March 29-April 1, 2007.

    “Chinese and Japanese Women Look to the Future: Obligations to Parents” ” presented at the Association for Asian Studies, WCAAS meeting at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, September 29, 2006.

    “Japanese and Chinese Women Students’ Perception of Obligation to Parents” presented at the Association for Asian Studies, ASPAC meeting at Washington State University-Pullman, June, 16-18, 2006.

    "Chinese Women Students' View of Future Prospects Upon Graduation – Factors Relating to Spousal Choice," presented at the WCAAS meeting in Denver Colorado, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2005.

    "Chinese Women Students' View of Future Spousal Choice," ASPAC 39th Annual Meeting, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, June 17-19, 2005.
  
"Chinese Women Students' View of Future Prospects Upon Graduation - Spousal Choice,"  Oxford Round Table, Lincoln College, Oxford, U.K. March 22, 2005.

 “Chinese Women Student’s View of Future Prospects Upon Graduation - Motherhood,” presented at the 36th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, July 7-14, 2004.

    “Chinese Women Student’s View of Future Prospects Upon Graduation - Motherhood,”  Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Annual Conference, Eugene, Oregon, June 18, 2004.

    “Chinese Women Student’s View of Future Prospects Upon Graduation,” presented at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.,  October 10, 2003.

    "The Definition of Motherhood in the Eyes of Chinese Women Students" and "Confucian Views and the Issue of Gender in Japanese Women’s Education,” presented at the International Sociological Association meeting in Brisbane, Australia, July 7-14, 2002.

    "Onna Daigaku and the Issue of Gender in Japanese Women’s Education,” presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Confucianism, Iwaki, Japan,  June 14, 2002.

    "The Future Through the Eyes of Chinese Women Students" presented at the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) annual meeting, Monterey California, June 9, 2001.

    “Cosmic Tea Bowl: The Ritual Serving of Food and Drink in Japan,” "East Asia-Saint Petersburg-Europe: Intercivilization Contacts and Perspectives on Economic Cooperation", Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 2-8, 2000.

    “Traditional Arts as Leisure Activities for Contemporary Japanese Women” and “Cosmic Tea Bowl: The Ritual Serving of Food and Drink in Japan,” presented at the Thirty six International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Montreal, August 27 to September 2, 2000.

    “Cosmic Tea Bowl: The Ritual Serving of Food and Drink in Japan,” 1999 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boise, Idaho September 18, 1999.  

    “Teaching about Women in Japan”, for a panel Teaching about Women in China, Japan and India, 1999 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester, N.Y., June 4-6, 1999

     “The India Club of the Central Coast: Indian Heritage and American Identity,” at the Society for the Scientific Study or Religion on November 7, 1997.

     “Traditional Arts as Leisure Activities for Contemporary Japanese Women” at the International Sociological Association meeting of the Future Studies Research Committee (RC07) The Trends of Life in the 21st Century, Bukkyo University, Kyoto, Japan Sept. 19, 1997.

    "Preliminary Observations of Higher Education for Chinese Women" at the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) annual meeting, Edmonton, Canada, June 20-23, 1996.

    “South Asian Women of the Central Coast: Education, Work and Marriage" for the 1994 89th ASA meeting, Los Angeles, in June1994.

    Japanese Women's Traditional Arts and Creativity" presented at the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Annual meeting in Monterey, October 19, 1993.

    "Traditional Arts (Chado, Japanese Tea Ceremony) As Leisure Activities and Their Impact on the Lives of Women," presented at the 45th. Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, March 27, 1993

    "Onna Daigaku and the Education of Modern Japanese Women" presented as part of a panel entitled: "Onna Daigaku Revisited: Japanese Women and the Dialectics of Tradition and Change" at the Association for Asian Studies 44th Annual Meeting April 4, 1992 in Washington DC.

    "Traditional Arts (Chado, Japanese Tea Ceremony) As Leisure Activities and Their Impact on the Lives of Women," presented at the ASPAC '91 Annual Meeting, Bellingham, Washington, June 21, 1991.

    "A World in A Teacup: Creating Culture, Creating Reality" presented at the ASPAC Annual Meetings at Stanford University.  June 30, 1990, revised and presented at the American Sociological Society Annual Meeting Culture Section Roundtable in Washington D.C. on August 11, 1990.

    "Traditional Arts (Chado, Japanese Tea Ceremony) As Leisure Activities and Their Impact on the Lives of Women" Annual Meeting of the Canadian Asian Studies Association, Victoria, BC, May 25, 1990.

    "Women's Experience as Creators and Teachers in the Japanese Tea Ceremony [Chado]," presented at the Annual Meetings of Sociologists for Women in Society, in conjunction with ASA annual meetings at the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco, on August 8-l2, l989. Also presented as part of a panel "Japanese Women's Work and Leisure: at Home and Abroad" at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, CSU Long Beach, October 22, 1989.

    "Women's Participation in the Traditional Art of Chado," presented at the ASPAC Annual Meetings at the University of California, Northridge, on June 25, 1988.

    "The Study of Chado as a Vehicle for Learning Japanese Values and Cultural Symbols," presented at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, in San Francisco, CA, March 25-27, 1988.

    "Non-Japanese Students of Chado (Tea Ceremony) in Japan," presented at the Western Conference Annual Meetings of the Association of Asian Studies in Tucson, AZ., on October 30, 1987.

    "Japanese American Women as Professionals.  Students and Interpreter of Japan in the Traditional Art of Chado," presented at the National Association Meeting Women's Studies Association Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., June 25, 1987.

    "A Comparison of Japanese and Japanese-Americans Participation in Chado," presented at ASPAC '87, Salem, Oregon, on June 20, 1987.

    "Comparison of Japanese and Japanese-American Women's Participation as Professionals and Students in Chado," presented at the Southwest Anthropologists Association in Bakersfield, CA, on March 28, 1987.

    Women and Choice in a Traditional Art in Japan," presented during Women's Week at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, on February. 26, 1987.

    "Chado in Japan and Hawaii: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of Intra- and Cross-Cultural Transmission, Adaptation and Change," presented at ASPAC 1986 in Monterey, California, June 20-22, 1986.

    "Women in Traditional Arts: Tea Teachers in Hawaii," presented at the "Her story: Exploring Women and History Conference," East-West Center, University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii, February 26, 1986.

    "Ethnicity and Rape Trauma: Responses of Women Students from Different Ethnic Backgrounds to a Rape Crisis," Asian Pacific Women Conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 22-23, 1982.

    "Ethnicity and Sexual Assault Trauma: A Multidimensional Analysis of Victims from Three Ethnic Groups to Sexual Victimization," Conference on Concepts and Strategies: Women's Studies in Different Cultural Contexts, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 15-17, 1982.

 WORK IN PROGRESS

Article: “Japanese tea ceremony,” item selected for publication in the Encyclopedia of Asian Pacific American Folklore to be published by Greenwood Press in 2010 - accepted.

The “Uncomfortable” Korean’ Comfort Women” review of the literature on the topic for the Korea Journal of University of Hawaii- submitted to the Center for Korean Studies.

      The “Un-Comfortable” ‘Comfort Women’ submitted to Education About Asia.

“Women’s Views of Calligraphy” for the 6th Annual Conference on Calligraphy Education, Taichung, Taiwan, June 29-July 2, 2008 submitted for translation and publication.

Book Review:
 
 Dream of the Red Mansions, China Foreign Press for Education About Asia.
    
    Manuscripts: books: Culture and Reality Management: Chado (The Japanese Tea Ceremony. Re-writing for publication.
    
    Research:  A study of the impact of higher education including junior college on the lives of Chinese, Japanese and Korean women focusing on decision-making and experience of education compared to philosophy of education and structure of educational institutions. Research in China partially completed, 1994-96 and 2003.  Survey in Japan completed in 2001-2002.  Survey in Korea being planned.

    Papers: Women's views of calligraphy for the ASPAC meeting in Aliso Viejo, Ca. June 20. 2009.


TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITIES

  Guest Lecturer at Ningbo University of Technology, School of Foreign Language Studies, Ningbo University, and Zhejiang Textile & Fashion College on English acquisition strategies and comparative educational systems, Sept. 16, 17 and 19, 2008.

 Supervisor for the Social Sciences Career Day project (2006-2008).

   Selection committee for the Cal Poly International Programs Office for students to go on study abroad programs, (2000-1, 2003-present).
  
    Conducted with Richard Norman, English teacher from Perth, Australian, a seminar on ESL for the English Department of Shaanxi University of Technology, (4 sessions) November, 2002.

    Developed a short course on "Tokyo through Film: Community and Family" with Laurence Kominz  and Joan Ericson, taught for Waseda University, February, 2002

    Director of the American branch of the Moonbridge Foundation.  Based in Australia, the Moonbridge Foundation purpose is to promote the training of teachers of English at the secondary level in China.  There are branches also in China, the United Kingdom and Canada.  December of 2000- 2003.

    Consultant and Training Program creator and director for San Luis County Schools, Tianjin China Teacher Exchange Project, 1997.

    Asian Outreach to K-6 Project: Proposed the Elgin Hines Fund for ASPAC to assist conferences in developing workshops for K-12 teachers.

Association for Asian Studies Grant to ASPAC for workshop for teachers on teaching about Japan in the K-6 curriculum, November 21, 1992.

    Conducted [with colleague Diane Long of Political Science] a seminar workshop for secondary school teachers, "Introducing Japanese Studies in the High School Curriculum," July 3-24, l989.

    Courses Taught: Introduction to Sociology (Soc 105), Comparative Societies (Soc 110), Race Relations (Soc 315), People and Institutions in Japan (Soc 350), American Minorities (Soc 316), Gender and Sex Roles (Soc 311), Women in East Asia (Soc 351), Humanities - Japanese Culture (Hum 310), Humanities - Chinese Culture (Hum 310).

    New Courses: Women, Race and Class (WS 411), Women in East Asia (Soc 351), Japanese Culture, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions (Humanities HUM 310 World Cultures), Advanced Topics in Japanese Society (Soc 450x). "Tokyo through Film: Community and Family"
    
 Readers Prepared for Courses:  Prepared an set of articles for issues discussion in courses Soc 315  American Ethnic Minorities and Soc 311 Sociology of Gender, "Race Relations" for Soc 315 Race Relations (Global)."American Minorities" for Soc 316 American Minorities, "Women in Asia" for Soc 351 Women in East Asia. "Ethnic Detectives I and II" for Soc 315 and Soc 316. "Japanese Society" for Hum 310 Japanese Culture and Soc 450X Advanced Topics in Japanese Society.  “Japanese Society Reader” for Waseda students.

Powerpoint presentations: for Hum 310 China: ”Chinese Buddhism,” “Confucian Images,” “Buddhist Art,”” Journey to the West,” “Folk Religious Images in China,””Tibetan Temples,” and “Characters from Journey to the West.” For Hum 310 Japan “Shikoku Pilgrimage – a Personal Journey”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/DEVELOPMENT

Outside member for Lily Schinsing – “A Master’s Thesis Prospectus to Explore Female and Male Behavior Differences in Public Parks in San Luis Obispo,” City and Regional Planning Dept. MA committee for the dept. of City and Regional Planning.  Winter and Spring quarters 2008.

Reviewer for John Wiley & Sons, Inc. of the three volume set: The Handbook of Technology Management, February, 2008.

Presenter: “Political Dissent in Myanmar,” 6th Annual Change the status Quo Conference, Cal Poly, February 16, 2008.

Presenter: “Myanmar in Crisis”, East Asian Research Materials and Resources
Center, Workshop, San Jose State University, October, 27, 2007

Presenter: “Myanmar in Crisis”, Cal Poly, October 4, 2007.

Presenter “the Modern Japanese Family,” Cal Poly Open House, April, 2007.

Received an Award of Merit for years of service from the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), June 18, 2005.

Panel participant, for National Affirmative Action Day, sponsored by M.E.X.A. and the Cap Poly Multicultural Center, November 3, 2005.

Outside Committee member for Stephanie Hagio’s thesis committee in East Asian Studies for Columbia University, fall 2005.

Listed in the Strathmore’s Who’s Who of Leaders in their Profession, 2003-2004.

Discussant for a panel “Postcolonialism” Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Annual Conference, Eugene, Oregon, June 18, 2004.

Discussant for a panel “Japanese Views on Sino-Japanese Relations in the Early 20th Century: Reassessments of Japan’s Pan Asianism” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, CA, March 4-7, 2004.

Reviewer for Ferrante,  Sociology: a Global Perspective, 5th edition, Thomson Wadsworth Publishers, 2003.

International Sociological Association, Research Committee 32: Women in society, since 2002.

Panel participant, for National Affirmative Action Day, sponsored by M.E.X.A. and the Cap Poly Multicultural Center, October 30, 2002.

Listed in the Strathmore’s Who’s Who of Leaders in their Profession, 2003-2004.

Reviewer of “Bodies Re-presenting the Past: Japanese Women and the Tea Ceremony after World War II,” by Etsuko Kato for University of Toronto Press. January 2002.

    Served on the Waseda selection committee for students who want to study in English and/or go to the United States on Exchange Programs, November 2001.

    Served on the Fulbright Selection Committee, Tokyo, Japan, November 1, 2001.

    Worked on organizing and implementing “The 50th Anniversary of Urasenke Outside Japan” four day seminar and workshops, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 18-21, 2001

    Reviewer for Feagin and Feagin, Race and Ethnic Relations for publisher and for Michael Kimmel, The Gendered Society Reader, March, 2001.

Made honorary Professor at Hanzhong Teachers College, Hanzhong, P.R.C. December 28, 2000.

Presented two lectures "Globalism" and "Similarities and Differences among Asian and American women" at Hanzhong Teachers College, Hanzhong, China on December 27 and 28, 2000 respectively and made an honorary professor at the Hanzhong Teacher's College on December 28, 2000.

Outside member on James Henry Holland's tenure and promotion committee for the Anthropology Department of Hobart and Smith Colleges, October, 2000.

    Chair and Discussant for the panel "Future of Cha-no-yu in North America for the First Conference of Tea Teachers and Practitioners in Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 21-24, 2000.

    Discussant for the panel, “Shifting Meanings of Kwangju”for the “Kwangju After Two Decades” Conference at UCLA and U.S. C., April 20-22, 2000.

    Established a chapter of Sociologists for Women in Society, California Central Coast Chapter with Meika Clucas, spring 2000.

    Awarded a certificate of appreciation for contributions to the academic life of the college and contributions to inter-collegial exchange by Hanzhong Teacher’s College, September 6, 1999.

    Re-elected to a second 6-year term as Secretary/Treasurer of ASPAC, June 1999.

    Chair, panel, “Asian Women in a Changing World” ASPAC Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, June 19, 1999.

    Presenter in panel “Teaching about Asian Women”, The Berkshires Conference, in Rochester, N.Y., June 10, 1999.

    Reviewer for Addison Wesley Longman, Publishers of The Challenge of American Diversity, March 1998.

    Organizing committee member, Chinese Garden- SLO, 1997- 1999.

    Chair of Esterline Prize Committee for ASPAC, 1997-present.

    Listed in Marquis Who’s Who of American Women   edition, 1996, 1998, 2000.
    
    Chair and organizer of a panel titled “Women in Buddhism” for the 1997 Cal Poly Women’s Week, February 10, 1997.

    Presenter of a paper “Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Higher Education in Japan,” for Cal Poly Women’s Week, Feb 12, 1997.

    Presenter as part of a panel “Exchanges with China,” NAFSA, Association of International Educators Regional Meeting, San Diego, December 5, 1996.

     Keynote speaker for the Annual Meeting of Phi Beta Delta, May 17, 1996.

    Elected to be the representative from ASPAC to the AAS Council on Committees for one term until 1998.

    Organized panel presentation on the "Current Situation in Nigeria" by Dr. John Oriji and Dr. Isola Kokumo for Phi Beta Delta, February 24, 1994

    Discussant on a panel "Teaching English in Asia" for the 1993 ASPAC meeting held in Monterey, California, on October 29, 1993.

    Delegate from Cal Poly to the WCSU Conference “Women’s Ways of Knowing, Strategies for Structural Change”, CSU Chico, April 16-17, 1993

    Elected at Secretary-Treasurer for ASPAC, Inc. for a six-year term (1993-1998), March 1993.

    Faculty advisor and participant on a work trip with Cal Poly students to work with Habitat for Humanity, Mount San Antonio College branch in El Flores, Tijuana, February 12-14, 1993 and for March 18-20, 1994.

    Chair of a roundtable on “Women and Asia” and organizer of a panel “Student Inquiries into the Sociology of Ethnicity and Sport,”(with Cal Poly students: Frank Fries, Sam Turner, Frank Pilone and Alan Steinkamp) for the 3rd Annual Meetings of the California Sociological Society, held in San Diego on October 16 and 17,1992.

    Promoted to Associate Professor and tenured effective September 14, 1992.

    Standing Committee and Program Chair, Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast
     (ASPAC) 26th Annual Meeting, held on June 19-21, 1992 at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

    Panel organizer, Chair and presenter, "Onna Daigaku Revisited: Japanese Women and the         Dialectics of Tradition and Change" for the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for             Asian Studies in Washington DC April 2-5, 1992.

    Panel organizer, chair and presenter, "Another Chance: Women and Organ Transplantation"     or Cal Poly Women's Week, April 23, 1991.

    Reviewer for American Sociological Review in the Fall of 1990.

    Organizer of a public form entitled: “Japanese Internment: Reparation & the 14th
    Amendment” with speakers Dan Kreiger, Paul Kurosawa and Phil Fetzer,  at Cal Poly,
     UU 204, March 13, 1990

    Reviewer for Gender and Society, Journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, Fall 1989
     to 2000.

    International Speakers Series: Pacific Rim.  Wrote proposal and planned presentations
     with colleagues from Political Science and Speech Departments from the
    Fall of 1989-Spring 1990.

    Attendee Social Sciences Instructional Computing Workshop, held at CSU Fresno,
     June 26-30, l989.

    Manuscript reviewer for Understanding Society: An Introduction to Sociology.
     Caroline Hodges Persell, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1989.

    Manuscript reviewer for Social Problems 4th ed. James W. Coleman and Donald R. Cressy.
      Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1990.

    Women's Council of the State University, annual meeting, "Responding to
     Diversity-Strategies for Success in the CSU," Sonoma State University, April 13-15, 1989.

    Presenter in a panel discussion "Ethnic Inclusiveness in Sociology" and attended the
     Sociology for Women in Society national board meeting in Washington, DC,
     March 2-6, 1989.

    Discussant for a panel "Issues of Feminism and Gender in Asia" Western Council of the
     Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 20-23.

    Attendee at Intensive Seminar in Kabuki Theatre, conducted by James Brandon at
     University of Hawaii, July 1988.

    Attendee at Multicultural Educators Workshop, Cal Poly, May 7,1988.

    Representative from Cal Poly and Sociologists for Women in Society to the National Conference on Racial and Ethnic Relations in American Higher Education, Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, April 26-28, 1988.

    Student Teacher Faculty Supervisor's Workshop, Cal Poly, February 26 & 27, 1988.

    Editor of Network News: Newsletter of the Sociologists for Women Society, 1987-1989.

    Workshop Convener.  "Expanding the Curriculum: Encompassing Women," Cal Poly, May 29, 1987.

    Discussion group convener for the 1986 Hawaii Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April 22, 1986.

    Research assistant to Dr. P. Steinhoff, Chair, North East Area Council for the Association for Asian Studies, grants administration, September, 1985 to August, 1986.

    Research assistant to Dr. Laurence Jacobs, Pacific Asian Management Institute, University of Hawaii, for a four-country (U. S. A., Indonesia, Korea, Australia) survey on attitudes toward marketing, October, 1985 to September, 1986.

    Editor of EASTASIA Newsletter, for University of Hawaii, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Fall, 1985.

    Convener for a panel on "Current Research in Sociology," Hawaii Sociological Association Annual Meeting, March 19, 1983.

    Editor of Urasenke Foundation of Hawaii, newsletter, 1982.

    Copaigue High School, Copaigue, New York, substitute teacher for History Department, 1967.

AWARDS

Received an Award of Appreciation for 2 decades of extraordinary service to ASPAC (Association for Asian Studies Pacific Area Council), June 2007.

   Received an Award of Merit for contributions to the organization by the Association for Asian Studies Pacific Area Council (ASPAC), June 19, 2005.

    Made honorary Professor at Hanzhong Teachers College, Hanzhong, P.R.C. December 28, 2000.

    Awarded a certificate of appreciation for contributions to the academic life of the college and contributions to inter-collegial exchange by Hanzhong Teacher’s College, September 6, 1999


UNIVERSITY SERVICE/COMMITTEES

 Affirmative Action Advisor, Social Sciences Department (l986-88, 1991- 1993, 1996); Cal Poly Academic Senate, (1988-1993) Academic Senate Curriculum Committee, General Education and Breadth subcommittee (1996- 97); College of Liberal Arts Caucus Chair (1991-1993), Constitution and By-laws Committee (1988-90), El Corral Bookstore Advisory Committee (1988-1990), CFA Elections Committee (1988-89), Ethnic Studies Program Committee (1991-1993), Humanities Committee (1987-1988), Social Sciences Dept.: Budget Committee (1998-present), Policy Committee (1998-present), Curriculum Committee (1997-present), Student Teacher Evaluation and Advising (1987-1988, 1992- 94, 96-present), Take Back the Night (1996- 1999), Women's Studies Program: Minor (1990-present) - Curriculum Committee chair (1993-94), Women's Studies Events (1989-1999), Interim Director Search Committee chair (1998), Director Search Committee  chair (1999) , Cal Poly Women's Coalition (1986-1989), Women's Week Coordinating Committee (1986-1989), Liberal Studies Committee (1999-2001), U.S. Cultural Pluralism Committee (1999-2001), CSU International Programs Selection Committee (2000), Starr Foundation Grant Proposal Committee (2000), Asian Studies Minor Proposal Committee (2001), Academic Senate Library Oversight Committee, chair (2004-5),  General Education Curriculum Area D Committee (2004-5), International Educational Programs Committee (2004-5)Library Dean Search Committee (2005-6)..

    Faculty Advisor to: Tomodachi Kai (Japanese Students' Club)(1987-1993), Chi Delta Theta (1992-4, 1996- 2001), Pi Gamma Mu (1998-2001), Community Safety Awareness Club (1992- 4), Social Sciences Student Association (1993-4, 1998 -2001), Women’s Program Student Mentoring Project (1996- 1998), Asian Commencement advisor (1999-2001), Recycle Yourself Club (organ donation) (2003-7)), Omega Xi Delta (2006-present).


 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

    American Sociological Association (1986-99), Association for Asian Studies (1986-present) , California Sociological Association (1986-1989) , Hawaii Sociological Association (1979-1986) , International House of Japan(1974-present), Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch (1968-1979), Sociologists for Women in Society(1986-1989), National Women's Studies Association(1986-1989), National Organization of Women (1986-1999), Committee on Women in Asian Studies (1986-present), ASPAC Nominating Committee Chair (1990-91), ASPAC Governing Board (1988-1993, Secretary/Treasurer 1994-present), Phi Beta Delta (International Scholars) - Alpha Gamma Chapter (Founding Member, President 1993-94), International Center for Asian Studies - Fellow, Canadian Asian Studies Association (1989-1991), Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (1997-8).

Established a chapter of Sociologists for Women in Society, California Central Coast Chapter with Meika Clucas, spring 2000.

SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS

  Honors Undergraduate Research grant from the Honors Program at Cal Poly, 2009, Waseda University Research Grant, 2001),  Cal Poly Plan Faculty Development Program, College of Liberal Arts Grant, 1996; California Faculty State Support Grant 1994; Field Research Fellowship 1991; Affirmative Action Faculty Development, Spring 1988, Spring 1990, Spring 1991, Summer 1993, Spring 1994, Summer 1994; University of Hawaii; Pacific and Asian Scholarship, l985-l986; University of Hawaii; Japan Foundation, Research Assistance Scholarship, l985-86; Urasenke Foundation of Hawaii, Chado Scholarship, l983-85; F. L. A. S. l980; James Shigeta Award, Asian Studies, l979; New York State Regents Scholarship, l964-67.

PUBLIC LECTURES/LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS

      Chinese Studies

2005   “Xuanzang: Buddhist Traveler on the Silk Road” lecture for Armatage Christian Church Study Group,  Perth, Australia, August 20, 2005.

2004    “Xuanzang: Buddhist Traveler on the Silk Road” lecture for White Heron Sangha, January 25.

1999    Elder Hostel Instructor for China Studies program at Cambria Pines Lodge, January 18-21 and February 8-11.

1998    Organized and presented in a panel “Women in Buddhism” for the Cal Poly Women’s Week, February 19.

    Presenter “Lives of East Asian Women” at Trinity Church, Los Osos, Ca, February 15.

    Elder Hostel Instructor for China Studies program at Inn at Morro Bay, January 19-23 and March 23-26.

    Presented for Lucia Mar School District on Chinese culture for third grade students, January 15.

1997    Elder Hostel Instructor for China Studies program at Cambria Pines Lodge, March 10-13, 1997 and March 31-April 3.

    Presenter, “Travels in China,” for Barnes and Noble Bookstore, San Luis Obispo,  January 17.

1996    “Women’s Higher Education in China,” Women’s Lunch Time Seminar, Cal Poly, October 21.

      Japanese Studies

2003    “Shikoku Pilgrimage” lecture for White Heron Sangha, May 23.

2002    “Shikoku Pilgrimage” lecture for International Program at Waseda University, May 23.

2001    Tea ceremony lecture and demonstration for the American Association of University Women, March 12.

2000    Tea ceremony lecture and demonstration for the Social Sciences Club at Tsurugi's restaurant, November 8.

    “Zen Values in Tea Ceremony” for the White Heron Sangha San Luis Obispo, on February 27 followed by a demonstration of tea ceremony on March 5.

1999    “Zen and Japanese Tea Ceremony” as part of “The Wisdom and Culture of Japan,”
 with Judy Saltzman, Institute of world Cultures, Santa Barbara, March 6.

1998    Lecture/ Demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony at the Institute of World Cultures in Santa Barbara, May 18.

1997    Exchange Tea for the 30th Anniversary of the University of Hawaii Tea Club, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 22.

    Lecture/demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for the Avila Buddhist Temple Wisteria Festival May 9.

1994     Lecture on Japanese tea ceremony, Hanzhong Teacher's College, November 28.

1994    Lecture/demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for the Avila Buddhist Temple Wisteria Festival May 7.

    Lecture/demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for Porter College, University of Santa Cruz, April 16.

1993    Lecture/demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for the Avila Buddhist Temple Wisteria Festival May 15.

1992    Lecture on Japanese Culture to Mrs. Rapp's 4th grade class Oceano Elementary School, June 3.

1991    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for Tomodachi Kai (Student Club), Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, April 29, 1991.
    
1990    Panelist on Counseling for Diversity for Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties, Santa Barbara September 14, 1990.

    "The Japanese Traditional Arts:  Building Bridges Between Asian and Western Women," for Cal Poly Women's Week, February 14, 1990.

1989    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony, for Cal Poly Women's Week, February 10, 1989.

1988    Lecture-demonstration.  "Japanese Tea Ceremony," Multicultural Center, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, April 19, 1988.

    Lecture, "The Taste of Tradition:  Tea Ceremony and Contemporary Japanese Identity," Center for East Asian Studies University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, April 11, 1988.

    Lecture-Demonstration.  "Japanese Tea Ceremony," Multicultural Center, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, April 19, 1988.

1987    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony, Kuakini Hospital, December 28, 1987.

    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for the Multicultural Center, Cal Poly, Feb. 17, 1987.

1986    "An Overview of East Asian History" Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 30, 1986.

    Lecture, "An Overview of East Asian History," People-to-People Student Ambassador Program, June l3, l986.

    Lecture, "Japanese Traditional Arts," Nanakuli, Pearl City, Kaimuki, Waimanalo, and Kailua High Schools for the Outreach Program of the Asian Studies Program of the University of Hawaii, May, l986 (25 classes, 660 students).

    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for Mid-Pacific High School,  April 11 and l2.

    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for the Japan Cultural Festival of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Neal Blaisdel Center, Honolulu, March 29.

1985    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for Kuakini Hospital, August l0 and December 27.

    Lecture, "Chado in Japan by Foreigners," Gaikoku Fujin Kai, Kyoto, March 27.

1984    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for Kuakini Hospital, August 15.

1983    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony at Honolulu Hale (city hall) for the 1983 Raku Festival, June 12.

    Lecture with Mr. Yoshibumi Ogawa, "Raku Pottery, Its Manufacture and Use in Chado," Honolulu Academy of Art, June 10.

    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony, Kamehameha High School, Honolulu, March 13.

1983    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for Hawaii Kai Library, Honolulu, June 12.

    Lecture-demonstration of Japanese Tea Ceremony for the Federally Employed Women's National Conference, Sheraton Hotel, Honolulu, May 20.

1982    Lecture-demonstrations of Japanese Tea Ceremony l983 were given monthly to a variety of groups on the University of Hawaii campus and high school groups from all over Hawaii, Oregon and Washington and to classes at the University in the departments of art, history, philosophy, religion and sociology.

1980    "Koreans and Burakumin in Japan" East Asian Workshop for Teachers, East Asian Language and Area Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1, 1980.

ARTS

    Established the “Barbara Mori Scholarship for Women in Calligraphy” at Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, P.R.C.,  May, 2003 (5 years), extended the scholarship for another 5 years, August 2008.

    4th Place Honorable Mention in the Human Diversity Photo Contest and exhibit at Kennedy Library, Cal Poly, May 8- June 15, 1998.

    Calligraphy piece accepted for the Xian 1996 International Calligraphy Exhibition and in the permanent collection by the Xian Calligraphy Museum, Xian, Shaanxi, PRC., March 8-31, 1996.

    Established the “Barbara Mori Scholarship for Women in Calligraphy” at Shibei (Northwestern) University in Xian, Shaanxi, P.R.C. 1996-2000.

    Photograph accepted as part of the Third International Women's Photography Competition, displayed at the UN Conference on Women, Beijing, September, 1995.

    Calligraphy piece accepted for the Northwestern University-Hanzhong Teacher's College Joint Calligraphy Exhibition, March 20- April 15, 1995.

ENGLISH TEACHING

    Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, PRC. September 2002- July 2003.

    Hanzhong Teacher’s College, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, PRC. September 1994- January 1996.

    Yonsei University, Foreign Language Institute, Seoul, Korea, Summer, l979.

    Farrington Adult School, English Teacher to Korean immigrants, Fall, l977.

    Sophia University, Community Programs, Summers of l973, l974.

    Tsuda School of Business, Tokyo, Japan, l973-l977.

    Sacred Heart Junior High and Junior College, Tokyo, Japan, l971-l973.

    Yonsei University, English Language Institute, Seoul, Korea, l969-l971.

    Choong Am Middle School and Primary School, Seoul, Korea, l968-l969.


OTHER WORK/STUDY EXPERIENCE

Fund raiser for The Old Bagan School Project for Zeethamyin village in Bagan, Myanmar.

         Production assistant and voluntary costumer for the production of “Madama Butterfly” by the Pacific Repertory Opera at the PAC April 2009.

    Participated in the MingDao University Workshop on Calligraphy, MingDao, Taiwan, June 30. 2008.

Guest lecture to Cal Poly MBA and MS in I&TS China trip, April, 2006.

    Panel member with Dr. Ryujin, Dr. Cheney, Dr. Hellenbrand and Sam Cortez, for National Affirmative Action Day, October 30, 2003.

    Keynote speaker for the closing Ceremony for the International Division and Transnational Program at Waseda University, June 29, 2002.

    Guest lecturer on “Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States,” (3 lectures) for the International Division of Waseda University, May, 2002.

    Urasenke Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, coordinator assistant to Mr. Y. Ogawa, July 2001.

    Created webpages for: Esterline Prize (ASPAC), Halla Huhm Foundation; Cal Poly Cat Program.

    WEB: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~bmori, Cal Poly Plan Program: Using the World-Wide Web for Teaching and Learning Project, presentation of work, February 26, 1997.

    "Chado Summer Seminar," Urasenke, coordinator assistant to Mr. Y. Ogawa, July l985, July l986.

    Dynaword, Tokyo, researcher in Kyoto on Japanese traditional arts, l984-l985.

    Urasenke Chado Semmon Gakko, Midori Kai, l983-l985, certificate of completion of two-year program, received July, l985.

    Created charters and non-profit status for the following organizations:  Association of Foreign Wives of Japanese (1973), Hawaii Women’s Political Action League (1982), Central Coast Kidney Foundation (1990), Association for Asian Studies Pacific Area Council (1992), White Heron Sangha (2000).

    University of Hawaii, Graduate Sociological Students Association, treasurer l980-l982, vice-president l982-l983.

    Woman's Word Bookstore, a program of the YWCA, co-founder and co-manager, l978-l983.

    Dynaword, Tokyo, proofreader, Summer, l979.

    University of Hawaii, Research Assistant, Professor Ho-min Sohn, Linguistics, l978.

    University of Hawaii, Center for Korean Studies, publications assistant, l978.

    Tokyo Nippongo Gakko, l971-l975, Japanese language study, part-time, completion of the first level of study certificate received in March, l975.

    Yonsei University Korean Language Institute, l969-l971, and summer of l979, completion of two-year language training program certificate, received September, l979.

    Cook County Public Aid, Chicago, Illinois, caseworker for Nursing Home Service, l968.

    Peace Corps Training, Korea, Public Health, by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, hospitals in New Mexico and Oklahoma, l967; and Thailand, English teaching, at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois (undergraduate credit received for ESL training), l966.

 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

    San Luis Obispo Chinese Garden Committee,

    Central Coast Guitar society (Cuesta Guitar Circle) member 2004-2005.

    La Guitarra California Festival Steering Committee 2004-2005.

    Speaker on “Life in North Korea,” for Trinity Methodist Church, Los Osos, November 2, 2003.

    Luncheon speaker on “Joking: Offensive or Just Fun” for the Morro Bay Rotary Club on February, 8, 1999.

    Presenter on Buddhism, “Spiritual Aspects: A Community Panel” for the Spring 1997 In-Home Volunteer Training Hospice Program, April 25, 1997.

    Judge for the Zone Level Student Speakers Contest for the Los Osos Lions Club, March 4, 1997.

  Arroyo Grande Community Chorus (South County Singers, Lucia Mar Adult Eduction class), 1997- 2001, 2004-.

    Founding member of the White Heron Sangha meditation group, 1993.  Charter member of the incorporation of the sangha as a non-profit religious organization, 1999-2000.

    Speaker, "Hiring in the Future Professional Job Market" A. A. U. W. Mentoring Program, PG&E Community Center, San Luis Obispo, January 13, 1991.

    Local Organizing Committee for the 1991 California Transplant Games and Symposium held at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, June 21-23, 1991.

    Central Coast Kidney Foundation, Incorporator and Vice President, 1990-1994.

    Presenter on a panel, "Culture versus Feminism," for Allan Hancock College Women's Week, March 7, 1990.

    San Luis Obispo, AFS/GSC Board, Newsletter editor, 1988-1990.  Bus Stop Coordinator, 1989, Americans Abroad Committee 1991-93.

    University Student YWCA, l978-l983, secretary l979-l982, president l982-l983, delegate to National Convention, Washington, D.C., l982.

    University of Hawaii Tea Club, l979-l986, treasurer l982-l983.

    Kuhio School Community Association, l977-l983, secretary l981-l982, treasurer l982-l983.

    Urasenke Foundation of Hawaii, l980-l986, Newsletter editor, l982.

    Hawaii Women's Political Action League, co-founder, l982-l983.

 PERSONAL DATA

    Born December l9, l946, educated in public schools in the United States.  Traveled to the following countries: Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Cambodia, Egypt (2004), Hong Kong, Japan (resided nine years: 1971-1976, 1983-85, 2002-2003), North Korea, South Korea (resided three years, 1968-1971), Laos, Myanmar, Peoples Republic of China (resided 2 and a half years: September, 1994-March, 1996, 2002-2003) St. Petersburg Russia (2000), Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.  Divorced with a son, Christopher Yoshitake born in 1972.  Studied the following languages: Chinese, French, Thai, Japanese (able to speak and read and write), Korean (able to speak, read and write).  I have also studied chado with Mr. Yoshibumi Ogawa and Mrs. Mollie Mikami from 1979-1983, 1985-1986 and in Kyoto, Japan, from 1983-85 and with Katsuhiko Toda from 2001-2002. Qualified to teach chado at the elementary level.  September 25, 1989, I received a kidney transplant.  On September 11, 2000 I took the five mindfulness trainings with Thich Nhat Hahn.  Studied calligraphy with Mr. Ikebe, Kyoto 1984-85, Mr. Yang Yao-lu Hanzhong China, Sept. 1994-January 1996, Sept. 2002-July 2003, Mr. and Mrs. Fujiura Shigefumi, Tokyo, November 2002-Februry 2003.

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