Curriculum Vita: Lilyan A. Brudner-White

Personal Data

Born: Fresno, California, U.S.A.

Married: Douglas R. White, Univ. of California, Irvine

Home Address 8633 C via Mallorca, LaJolla, Calif., 92037

Citizenship: U.S.A.

Education

1969-1970 Postdoctoral Fellow, Language Behavior Laboratory,

University of California, Berkeley (National Science Foundation Award

1967-1969 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of

Anthropology

1964-1967 M.A., University of California, Berkeley

1957-1960 B.A., Hunter College

Internships and Clinical Licensing

1974-1977 U.S.I. University, Clinical Psychology, M.A. and later licensing as Family Therapist, State of California

Fields of Specialization

1. Economic development and Social Change: research in Mexico and Austria on rural communities

2. Marriage, Kinship and Family Systems

3. National Policy Development: Director of Research on Language Policy and History of Language Planning, Republic of Ireland, Minister of Finance

Academic Positions

1985 to 1999 Research Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

1980-1985 Visiting Professor, San Diego State University, Department of Linguistics

1970-1975 Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology

Editorial Positions

1984 Editor for Social and Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist.

1973-1975 Associate Editor, Ethnology

Recent Workshops

1998-2000 Summer Workshop, University of Cologne, Department of Anthropology, on Kinship, Language and Economic Development

1996 Conference Coordinator, “Modernity’s Histories,” University of California, Irvine,

Brudner-White paper on “Rethinking the Region as a Unit of Analysis: Case Study from Tlaxcala, Mexico.

International Policy Recommendation Research

1971-1973 Director of Research, Project on the Irish Language, Office of the Minister of Finance and Minister of the Gaeltacht, Republic of Ireland

Research Grants and Awards

1986-87 with Douglas White, Basic Scientific Research Design on Development and Social Change, Wenner-Gren Foundation

1985-86 Co-Principal Investigator with D. R. White, T. Scarlett Epstein, Wenner-Gren

Conference Planning Group in Development Anthropology

1981-1983 Research Award, N.S.F. with Douglas R. White and Hugo Nutini, Network Analysis and Ritual Kinship in Tlaxcala, Mexico

1969-70 Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley with Professor John Gumperz, Economic Development and Social Change in Rural Communities

1967-1969 N.I.M.H. Research Award, Economic Development and Social Change in Rural Austria.

Professional Participation

1978-1979 Advisory Panel on Grants and Awards, National Endowment for the Humanities

1975 Participant, Planning Conference on Cross-Cultural Research, HRAF

1973 Advisor, NSF Awards in European Ethnography

Publications

In Press Douglas R. White, Michael Schnegg, Lilyan A. Brudner-White and Hugo G. Nutini. "Networked Integration: Multiple Connectivities and Cross-Cutting Boundaries in Kinship and Compadrazgo (Rural Tlaxcala, Mexico).” In, Samuel Schmidt and Jorge Gil, eds., Social Networks: Theory and Applications. UNAM: Autonomous University of Mexico Press.

1999 "Decentralized Systems and The Invisible State: Low Density Multiconnected Cohesion in Large-Scale Social Networks in Tlaxcala, Mexico" (Douglas R. White, Michael Schnegg and Lilyan Brudner-White). (web publication) http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/cases/decentralized.html

1997 "Class, property and structural endogamy: Visualizing networked histories,” with D. White. Theory and Society 26:161-208.

1988 "The Murdock Legacy: The Ethnographic Atlas and the Search for a Method,” with D. White, Behavioral Science Research 22:59-81.

1986 "Order and Its Shadow: Delinquency as Resistance and Reproduction,” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 9:321-343, Special Issue: Anthropological Reflections on Forensic Psychiatry, ed. L. Ross and L. Tancredi.

1983 "Cultural and Contextual Relativity in the Study of Family Triangles,” with C. Falicov, In C. Falicov, ed., Cultural Perspectives in Family Therapy, Aspen Press.

1982 "Language Shift,” Reviews in Anthropology 9: 210-213.

1980 "Models of Language Choice in Austrian Peasant Communities: the Problem of Indeterminacy in the Explanation of Change in Social Process,” Reviews in Anthropology 7: 439-450.

1980 "Systemic and Exocentric Dimensions of Compadrazgo in Rural Tlaxcala, Mexico,” with H. Nutini, L'Uomo 43: 287-310.

1977 "Entailment Theory and Method: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Sexual Division of Labor,” with D. White, M. Burton, Behavior Science Research 12: 1-24.

1977 "A Model of the Division of Labor by Sex,” with D. White, M. Burton, American Ethnologist 4: 227-251.

1977 "Language Attitudes, Behavior and Intervening Variables,” with D. White, in W. F. Mackey and J. Orenstein, eds. Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact. Mouton, Trends in Sociolinguistics, pp. 51-68.

1977. "Language Creativity and the Psychotherapy Relationship,” in B. Blount, M. Sanches, eds., Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change, pp. 271-287. Academic Press.

1977 "Occupational Concomitants of Language Variability in Southern Austrian Communities,” in J. Fishman, Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism, vol. 1: 153-181.

1976. "National Policy Programming: A Prototype Model from Language Planning,” with D. White and A. Walters, in P. Sanday, ed., Anthropology and the Public Interest: Fieldwork and Theory. Academic Press, pp. 293-306.

1975 Tuaraiscail [Official Report] of the Committee on Language Attitudes Research Regarding Irish (major national government report, with D. White and the Committee on Language Attitudes -- a board of Irish scholars). Dublin: Government Printing Office. 478 pp.

[The Tuaraiscail is evaluated and reviewed in the following:

1981 Brown, Terrence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-79. Fontana Paperbacks, pp. 273-278. [see also 1985 edition]

1978 Andrews, Liam. The Decline of Irish as a School Subject in the Republic of Ireland 1967-1977.

1978 Tovey, Hilary. Language Policies and Socioeconomic Development in Ireland. Dublin: Linguistics Institute of Ireland.

1977 Edwards, J. R. Review: Committee of Language Attitudes Research, Language Problems and Language Planning 1:54-59.

1977 Mackey, W. "Irish and the Educational System,” Muinteoir Naisiunta 21:16-19.

1977 Mackey, W. Irish Language Promotion: Potentials and Constraints. Dublin: Linguistics Institute of Ireland.]

1974 Interim Report for the Minister of Finance, with D. White and the Committee on Language Attitudes. Dublin, Ireland.

1973 The Occupational Survey Regarding Irish Language in Dublin. with D. White and the Committee on Language Attitudes. Dublin, Ireland.

1972 "The Maintenance of Bilingualism in Southern Austria,” Ethnology 11:39-54.

1972 "Introduction,” Special Issue on Europe, Ethnology 11, 1.

1969 "The Use of Paradigms in Social Anthropology,” Proceedings of the 38th International Congress of Americanists, vol. 2: 328-337. Stuttgart, Germany.

1969 The Ethnic Component of Social Transactions. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.